PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 16, 14 October 1908, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr G. W. Murray has been Dominated by Auckland and Wanganui as a member of the executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute for the North Island.

Mr. Vai. Johnston, assistant general manager of the Union 8.8. Company, arrived in Auckland from Dunedin on dayMr. J. Court, City Councillor, has been granted one month’s- leave of absence en account of ill-health by the Auckland City Council.

Mr W. Hood, inspector of factories at Wanganui, lias received notice of his transference to Auckland as assistant-in-spector. Mr MeQuarters returns to Wanganui as factory inspector. Mr. F. W. Furkert, in charge of the North Island Main Trunk railway works, is tn become district engineer of the Public Works Department ait Dunedin, in succession to Mr. E. R. Ussher.

Last week Mr. Frank Lawry (member for Parnell) was the recipient of a presentation from members of the Government party in commemoration of his 21’ years of political life. Dr. Bell, Director Geological Survey, who has been making an examination of the Whangaroa copper deposits, arrived from the North on Saturday, and' has now gene to the Thames, where he will be for some time.

Mr E. C. O’Brien, of the Lands and Survey Department, and formerly of Auckland, who has been stationed at Hokitika for the post few years, returned by the Rotoiti last week, having been transferred back to the Auckland ofliee. Colonel Hammond, who came to New Zealand representing General Booth in connection with his- emigration schemes, has left Wellington for the south, but will return thither to-morrow, leaving on the Friday night for Sydney. Mr. A. R. Hislop, secretary of the Institute of Marine Engineers, is at present on an organising tour among engineers in the iSoutli Island. Mr. Hislop will afterwards continue lus tour up the East Coast to Gisborne, and will then cross to Taranaki before returning to Wellington.

Mr. T. H. Geraghty, who has been promoted to the position of inspector of permanent way at Ohakuue, was last week presented with a handsome travelling bag as a mark of the esteem in which he was held by the railway employees at the new works at Frankton Junction.

Mr. M. Herrold, who lias been appointed manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company’s business at Buenos Ayres, joined the company’s staff at Napier, whence, a few years later, he was promoted to Auckland'. Then he eame back to Napier, where he was manager for eight years. It is stated that Mr. fJeorge Arthur will be chief engineer of the new Shaw, Savili, and Albion Coinpaaiy’s passenger liner Tainui, which fs timed to leave England for New Zealand on the 14th November. Mr. Arthur has been superintending the erection of the engines and the construction of the steamer generally. LONDON, September 4.

Mr J. W. Black, private secretary to the Minister for Lauds, is now in England holiday-making with his wife. They came Home by way of America, and en route saw something of the Quebec tercentenary celebrations ere sailing for Ireland, where they spent a week or so doing the principal places of interest in the South. They arrived in London some two weeks ago, and after a few days’ Sight-seeing here, went on to Cheshire to visit some friends. Thence they proceed to Scotland, and will return to London a fortnight henee. Mr and Mrs Black are booked to return to the Antipodes by the N.D.L. Bremen, which should land them at Sydney about the middle of November.

Among recent arrivals in London from* the Dominion is Mr Percy Carter, of Auckland, who is en route for America, whither he preceeds presently to take up iiis collegiate studies for the Baptist ministry. Whilst in England, Mr Carter intends visiting friends in various parts of the country, and proposes during liis wanderings to give a series of lectures on New Zealand, illustrated by slides loaned by the AgentGeneral and some of his own. At present Mr Carter is not at all sure whether he will return to New Zealand.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner's ofliee: Mrs F. W. Dawson and Miss Dawson (Auckland), Miss 1. Kathleen IShera (Auckland), Dr. Courtney L.

Nedwill (Chri&tehuich), Mr R. T. L. Nicholson and Mr Erie S-. Nicholson (Hawke’s Buy), Mr au«l Mrs W. H. Hunt fThnaru), Mr J. Sayle Dal by (Christchufth), Mies Isabel Cameron (Taranaki and Auckland), Mr Sidney W. Hardie (Auckland), Mr Arthur Hirst (Wellington), Mrs J. 8. Howat (Auckland), Mr Jas. Duval Jeene (Gisborne). There were “sounds of revelry by night” at the Ship Inn, Eastcote —a pretty rustic hotel, situated amid delightful scenery some lb' miles from London —last Saturday night. The chief contributors thereto were a party of New Zealanders, who assembled there to bid farewell to two Australians who arc returning to their southern homes after a lengthy stay in England, during which they have been gathering valuable business experience. The guests were Mr J. Rodgers (of Sydney) and Mr C. Hartley (of Brisbane), and their entertainers included Messrs E. J. Hall (Christchurch), C. 8. Jeffs (Christchurch), A. Wilson (Christchurch), Alex. Meßae (Wellington), C. A. Kessel! (Auckland), C. J. Milne (TimaruJ, N. Hall (Christchurch), J. Colwell (Napier), J. Muller (Dunedin), P. G. Riches (Christchurch), J. E. Dunstan (Christchurch), B. Bettie (Christchurch), and J. L. 8. Crump (Auckland). Prior to dining, the party indulged in a drive and ramble round the adjacent country, which was greatly enjoyed. At dinner Mr Alex. Meßae presided, and after the usual loyal toast, proposed the healths: of their guests in a happy little speech, to which Messrs Hartley and Rodgers made suitable replies. Then, New Zealand having been toasted with rather shaky enthusiasm, the company settled down to enjoy a varied programme of musie, song and recitation. A jolly evening was brought to a close by the party, ted by Mr Kessell, indulging in a Maori haka. Captain W. v. Bindon, ef Auckland, arrived in london a few days ago, having travelled Home by the Afrie. He is on a business mission, namely to purchase a small steamer to take out to: the and is not yet certain when he will return to New Zealand.

Captain H. E. Crozier, R.N., who died last week at Southsea, in his 79th year, served on board the Calliope in New Zealand in 1846-8, during the war, for which he had the medal, and, promoted to his lieutenancy in May, 1854, he served in that year for a few months in the Baltic during the war with Russia, in the Tribune and Termagant, and was present at the capture of Bomarsund, receiving for his service the Battie medal. He became commander in 1864, and was placed en the retired list in October, 1875. Sir Joseph Ward said that it, was the desire of members to make a small presentation to mark the esteem in which they held Mr. Lawry, both as a politician and as a man. During his 21 years of Parliamentary life the member for Parnell had not made an enemy en either side of the House. His work in, the House had been of a very useful nature. The farmers ®f the country had a great deal to thank Mr. Lawry for, and his services on the Stock and Agricultural Committee had been invaluable. On behalf of the members, he asked Mr. Lawry to accept a pair of salt cellars for Mrs. Lawry, and a mounted ink-stand for himself, as a token of the esteem in which he was held. (Applause. }

An interesting wedding teok place in the Royal Chapel at Hampton Court last Wednesday, when Captain Scott, C.N.0., of the Royal Navy, who commanded the "Discovery” in the Antarctic: Expedition cf 190.1-4, led to the altar Misa Kathleen Druce, daughter of the late Canon Lloyd Bruce and niece of the late Archbishop ef York. Commander Scott’s bride is one of the few notable women sculptors. She was a pupil of the celebrated Rodin, and has exhibited for several years in the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. The wedding was kept as quiet as posrible, but the news leaked out, and there was a large crowd ef sightseer* waiting at the Palace gats to cheer the gallant Captain and his fair captor. Only ticketholders, however, were allowed within the Chapel, and here was mustered a goodly company of naval officers and officers and men of the “Discovery’* company, and a large number of social entities. Amongst these were the Ladies Nortlieote, Lord and Lady Ranfurly, Admiral and Lady Jackson, Lord Howard de WaMen, Admiral Beaumont, Sir George and Lady White, Lady Sutherland, and Admiral and Lady Adelaide Colville. The bride wore a plain white satin gown, the bodice being draped with a Limerick lace scarf and chiffon, and her head dress was a spray ef natural orange

blossom esvered by a tulle veil. The honeymoon is being spent in France. Among the many handsome gifts to the happy pair was a very large rosebowl of silver from Captain Scott’s ’Discovery” shipmates.