PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14600, 25 February 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoe, will spend to-night at Frankton, on his way from Rotorua to Pukekohc. A cable message states that the new Governor of Victoria, Karl Stradbroke, lias arrived, and lias been sworn in. Mr W. C. Cargill, proprietor of the Morrinsville Star, was in Ilamiltoii to-day. Mr A. G. Lunn has been appointed president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Major-General Sir Alfred Robin, K.G.M.G., C. 8., formerly Commander of the New Zealand .Military Forces, iias been posted to the retired list as from January I, l!)!i 1. ' Mr J. 11. Templin lias returned to Christchurch after visiting the Waikato, Thames and Bay of Plenty districts, in connection with hydro-elec-tric schemes. Rev. ii. Ford was presented with a couple of volumes of It. 'Browning and Mrs Browning's poems by Te Rapa friends prior to leaving Prankton. Good wishes were expressed for Mr Ford's happiness and prosperity. Mr It. H. Wood, of Hamilton, left last night, for Napier, where he is to act as one of the judges at, the United Fire Brigades' Demonstration next week. Til * condition of Mr J. B. Scott, o? Hamil.un, who has been confined' to his house for some weeks, suffering from a severe breakdown, shows a slight improvement. Secretary E. S. Cross will leave for Napier to-night, where lie will represent the Hamilton Brigade al the conference of United Fire Brigades, which will open on Monday. Cabinet, yesterday decided tn appoint Mr Justice Chapman, who will shortly retire from the Supreme' Court Bench, Compiler of Statutes, to continue th«> consolidation from i9OS, mp In which year the statutes were consolidated a Commission of Judges. Mr James Marion, a prohibition lecturer, when lecturing at, Duntroon, last night, dropped into a chair saying that he was not well. Medical aid was promptly given, but Mr Marlon became unconscious and died al 3 a.m. this morning . Death was due to an apoplectic, stroke. Mr Marion organised the prohibition campaign in Hamilton some years ago. At the conference of the Master Printers' Association, the election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mr J. Gamble; vice-president, Mr T. Jones; council, Messrs N. Mcliobie. \V. li. Cargill, A. A. Willis, 11. Coull, A. J. Benzie, 'J'. Somcrville, and S. N*. Brown. Mi- J. T. Johnson, chairman of the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board, was a passenger by Wednesday night's Main Trunk express fur the south. lie is expected to be away for 10 days. Constable P. Doyle, whose health has been indifferent for some time, and who has been visiting Wellington, was operated upon for appendicitis a few days ago. Latest advice indicates that the operation was quite successful, and that Mr Doyle is making a satisfactory recovery. Commissioner Hodder, Chief Officer of the Salvation Army in the. Dominion. was in Hamilton to-day. accompanied bv Mr.; Hodder. Colonel Me In lies. Chief Secretary of the Army, who al*o a member "f the parly. They had been paying a visil of Inspection I" the Army farm at Putaruru. The party left, fur Wellington by this afternoon's express. While in Hamilton they visited the Children's Home in Tawa Road. At a congregational meeting; held in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. Malaniata, the following were elected as a management committee: Messrs E. C. Banks, J. Kirkness, G. Mason, F. Jones, ami W. Morton. A meeting of the committee was held afterwards, when Mr Morton was elected secretary and Mr Jones treasurer. Pending the appointment of a permanent minister lo St. Andrew's, arrangements have been made to have the work carried. on with this object in view. Rev. 11. C. Stuart, a recenl arrival from Ireland, has been engaged to fulfil the services in the interim. Rev. Stuart, with his wife and family, arrived in Matamata on Thursday last. An old and respected settler passed away at her residence, Claudelands, on Wednesday last in the person of Mrs' Martha Thrift Osborne. Mrs Osborne (nee Mitchell' came to New Zealand from Scotland 5 i years ago, being then a girl of 16 years. Some years later she married, and subsequently reside! at Wellington and' Auckland. Removing thence to Wairarapa, she remaine I In that district for 15 years, and whilst t :ore was left a widow, her husband. dving from fever in the South African War. Disposing, of her interests in Wairarapa, r-he and her family ; two song and four daughters) came to Waikato and look up land on the River Road, a few miles nit of Hamilton, where she remained until recently. The deceased, who had attained unto three score years and ten. was held in high esteem by all privileged to know her. The funeral will take place this afternoon in the Hamilton Fast Cemetery.