PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 25, 16 December 1908, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr. W. Jaques, Government Canning Expert, is visting Auckland. Mr. W. J. Napier, of Auckland, has been on a brief visit to Wellington. Rev. Dr. James Gibb has been appointed Moderator of the Wellington Presbytery. Colonel Wolfe, 0.C.D., was a passenger from the North by the Clansman on Saturday. Mr. Sidney Wolf has resigned his position as musical director of the Dunedin Operatic Society. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Richards,, of New York, are at present touring the thermal springs district. Mr. W. A. Thomson, of the firm of Messrs. Thomson and Brown, Wellington, has left on a visit to Sydney. Mr. J. Kirkcaldie and Mr. Sidney Kirkci. Idle, of. Wellington, were passengers by the Maheno for Sydney last week. Mr. 11. Friedlander, of Ashburton, was a passenger on his return South- by the Takapuna last week. Mr. C. Ranson, general manager of the Northern S.S. Co., returned from ,'Wellington by the Rarawa last week. Mr. Duagnan, one of the proprietors of the Wanganui “Herald,” returned from a trip to England lasrt week. Miss I. M. Herring, who has been appointed masseuse at the Hamner fiprings Sanatorium, has taken up her duties.

Captain C. Clift is at in charge of the in place of Captain J. Dawson, who has joined the Whangape. The Rev. W. Curzon-Siggers, of St. Matthew’s Church, Dunedin, has been elected an honorary canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Mr. G. If. F. Rolleston, British Trade Conmiissioner for New Zealand, who has been on a visit to Auckland, has gone south. Mr. J. A. Sellar, tetter of the Bank of Australasia at Hamilton, has received notice of transfer to Wellington or Christchurch. Dr. Crooke, house surgeon of the Christchurch Hospital, and Mrs. Crooke are spending a short holiday in the North Island. Judges Seth-Smith and McCormick, of the Native Land Court, arrived in Auckland by the Victoria from Gisborne on Sunday. Mr. R. A. Macdonnell and Miss Maedotnnell (Sydney) and Mr. and Mrs. Vanderburg (Adelaide) are at present in Rotorua. Mr. W. A. Fla veil (Wellington manager of the Westport Coal Company) is at present on a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mr. W. H. George, of George and Kersley, Wellington, left by the *laheno for Sydney. Before his departure he was entertained at luncheon by the Y.M.C.A. At Knox Church, Dunedin, recently, the ordination took place of Miss Laura Reid as honorary sister and Miss Simpson as deaconess. The members of the Sydenham Boxing Club, Christchurch, presented a velvet pile table-cloth to their instructor, Mr. J. Watson. Mrs. Speedy, wife of Mr. J. Speedy. Burn View station, who has lived in the Dannevirke district for over 45 years, died last week. Cable advice has been received that Mr. S. De Beer," son of Mrs. De Beer, of Roslyn, Dunedin, has taken his degree as A.M.I.E.E. in London. Mr. Vickerman, who was engaged on the North Island Main Trunk Railway works, has taken charge at Broken River, on the Midland Line. Mr. Clement AVragge, the well-known meteorologist and astronomer, is on his way from Calcutta to the Dominion, to engage in a lecturing tour. The Hon. G. J. Smith M.L.C., whose return to New Zealand was delayed by the accident to the Tongariro, left England by the lonic on Thursday. Mr. W. A. Fordham (of the Public Trust Office) and Mrs- Fordham left Wellington last week on a visit to Australia. Mr. A. Ford, late consulting engineer of the Wellington gasworks, has returned from a three months’ holiday trip to Sydney. The call of the Rev. G. K. Stowell, Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, to the South Wairarapa charge, was. sustained by the Wellington Presbvtery last week. Miss Ensoni, who has been closely associated with the kindergarten movement in America, has been appointed kindergartener for the Dunedin Association. The many friends of Mr R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P., Christchurch, will be pleased to hear that he is making good progress towards recovery from his recent illness. Mr Eliott, of Melbourne', has been appointed engineer to the Taieri Drainage Board for three years, at a salary of £750 per annum. There were fifty-five applicants. Air. J. E. McEnnis (engineer in charge of the railway construction works on the Gore-Waikaka and Riversdnle-Wai-kaia lines) is being transferred to Helensville. It is understood that a requisition is being signed in Christchurch asking Cr. TL H. Lough nan to allow himself to be nominated for the office of Mayor during the ensuing year. The leader of the Devonport Presbyterian Church choir. Miss Peggy Cardno, was presented last week with a silver salvor from the members of the choir, on the eve of her marriage. At the annual picnic of the Canterbury Farmers’ Union at Lincoln College, held on Thursday. Mr. W- Lowrie. the retiring director of the College, was presented with an illuminated address. Mr. Alfred Hill, the well-known musician, has boon seriously ill in Wellington with pneumonia. An operation was necessary. and he is -now progressing favourably, but is in a very low state. The Rev. J. Mackenzie, of St. Andrew's Church, Christchurch, has agreed to remain in that city at the unanimous request of his congregation, and not to accept a call extended from Southland.

’The many friends of Mrs. McCutcheon, of Whatawhata, Waikato, will regret to hear of her death at the great age of 8GShe was probably the oldest resident in Whatawhata, where she was widely known ami respected. Mr. T. W- Brown, of Wellington, who has been transferred to the Industries and Commerce Department from the State Coal depot, received a pair of binoculars from his associates before taking up his new duties. The death is announced of John Fitch, who took part in the battle of Tel-el-Kebor with the Second Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. He was mentioned in despatches. Fitch was at one time a member of the Dunedin Garrison Band. Mr. G. C. Schmidt (lately private secretary io Mr. Hall .lones). who has been appointed assistant chief clerk in the Public Works Department, is on a visit to Rotorua, having been granted leave of absence until the end of the year. R.W. Bro. J. W. McDougall has announced his intention to relinquish office as Provincial Grand Master for the Masonic order in Hawke’s Bay at the end of the* present term, when he w ill have completed seven years’ work in the position. Mr. H. W. Pipr, of Duvauchelles, who has just returned from a trip to Great Britain, was entertained at lunch at the Somerset Hotel, Duvauchelles, by the combined Defence Rifle Clubs of Banks Peninsula, and presented with a rifleman’s kit. The President of the Auckland Branch (of the Liberal and Labour Federation (Mr P. J. Nerheny) at the last meeting moved a resolution of thanks to Mr A. Kidd for his services when representing Auckland in the House, which was carried unanimously. Mr F. W. Rowley, deputy chief inspector of the Labour Department, Wellington, was the recipient of a present from the department’s staff in view’ of his approaching marriage. Mr B. R. Bunny, a brother of Mr E. P. Bunny, of Wellington, arrived in Wellington last week from Sydney. He has been for six years on the Klondike goldfields, and has returned to New Zealand to go in for sheep farming. Another of the old mining fraternity, records the “West Coast Times,” has passed away in the person of William Rea. For over 44 years he traversed the goldfields of New Zealand, most of which time he spent on the West Coast. Mr. Alfred Hill, of Wellington, has consented to be nominated for the position of judge of the North Island Brass Bands’ contest at Hastings in February next. Mr. F. Waldegrave, Under-Secretary for Justice, and Mns. Waldegrave. who have been to England on a long holiday are now in Australia. They will probably return to New Zealand a few days before Christmas. The staff of the Public Trust Office, at Wellington, presented Mr. John W. Macdonald, assistant solicitor to the department, with a pumo of sovereigns, to mark the occasion of his approaching marriags. Mr. J. G. Wilson, surveyor, who has been connected with the Lands and Survey Department in the Napier office for a considerable time, and is leaving to take np a position as draughtsman in the Blenheim office. was presented with a case of pipes from the staff of the Nap »er office. Mr W. H. Munro was last week present'd with tokens of goodwill by the combined staffs of the “Dominion” newspaper, Wellington, on his relinguishing the position of manager of that paper. Mr Munro, who has gone to Sydney, is succeeded by Mr A. Blanton, the manager of the “Daily Mail.’’ Brisbane. Amongst the passengers who arrived in Wellington by the ITimaroa from Sydney was Major A. W. Andrew, of the Indian Army, llfith Alahrattas. who is on a year’s furlough. He was formerly connected with the Sixth and Tenth New Zealand Contingents. Major Andrew subsequently went on to Christchurch, his native city. Air IT. P. Richmond. 8.A.. LLR. barrister and solicitor, of Wellington, who has decided to commence practice in Auckland was at one time chief clerk under Mr. Skerrett, K.C., and afterwards practised in Wellington. He was for some time Chairman of- the Wellington Provincial Lawn Tennis Association, and a men lier of the governing body of Victorio University College. Air. William Kennington and his fatu’lv. who are about to leave Willobv. Ashburton, for Ngaire. in the Taranaki district, were entertained by their friends

last week, says the Lyttelton ‘*Times.* Mr. N. Ziman. of Auckland, one of the Rhodes scholar-, has. according to &. cable rteeived from Ixmdon last week, been eh vte.l t*» an honorary mathematical scholarship a*. Baliiul College. Oxford. Air. Ziman w " the New Zealand Rhodes scholar chosen last year. Hr i« a brilliant inathematiriain. The scholarship to which he has been elected is not awarded after examination, hut in view of past achievements. There was quite a number of wellknown Wellingtoniaus among the passengers from Sydney bv the Ulimaroa last week. They included Mr. R. M. Simpson (manager of the Phoenix Assurance Co.). Mr. \\ . Brown (of Fztery and Co.). Mr. John Murrell (who contested the Wellington Smith s<*at im the recent general ebsdions). Mr. Walter Reid (son of Mr. Nicholas Reid), and Air. J. <*oom. Jate chief engineer of the New Zealand railways), who has returned from a trip to England. Dr. Hardwick Smith. M. 8.. B.C. (Cambridge). KR.C.S. (England), who has been chosen from twenty-eight applicants for the post of medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, is a recent arrival from England, but has been practising for a short time in Christchurch. Airs. Gammack, who was six years old when she arrived from Scotland in Nelson with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner, in IS4I, died recently in Christchurch. LONDON, November G. 1 had a talk this week with the architect of the new Auckland Town Hall, Mr. J. J. ( lark, of Melbourne, who is on a visit to England. Mr. Clark has come here primarily to study the latest methods in hospital construction, his firm having been appointed architects for the new Melbourne Hospital; but he is taking the opportunity to get information also with reference to the organ and the lighting of the Auckland Town Hall. Mr. ( lark admits that the Greystreet triangular site was an awkward one to design a building for, but. on the other hand, he considers that it offers advantages in respect of light and air. and ready egress which the other sites that came under his notice did not possess. For these reasons he con* siders the Grey-street site superior to the vacant site opposite the Art Gallery, the excavation of which would have meant cutting off a good (.leal of light from the lower portion of the proposed building. Mr. ( lark left Australia on August sth, by the Canadian Pacific route, and after visiting the princimil cities in America, arrived in England ”.i October 2nd. London has occupied his time up till now, with the exception of a visit to Birmingham and Bristol to see the organs in the Birmingham Town Hall and the Colston Hall. Next week he goes to Scotland and the northern towns of England, and after a brief return to London will return to Australia via Suez, visiting Continental cities on his way. It is twenty years since Mr. Clark was last in England, and he is much struck with the imp«*»\ ement that has taken place in the habits and appearance of the people of this country. Nothing has impressed him more favourably during his visit than the great audiences of well-dressed, orderly and sober people who throng the concert halls, lecturerooms. ami parks of the large towns on a Sunday. Sir James Alills and Mr. .1. M. Ritchie, of the I nion Steamship Coiupany. were guests at the annual dinner of the Institute of Marine Engineers, held at Holborn Restaurant last week. The president of the year. Mr. James Denny, was in the chair, and there was an unusually large representative gathering. ’Those present number* d about 4(H’. and included Ixwd Inverclyde. Sir Thomas Sutherland ( P. and O. Co.). Sir James Mackay 'British India CoJ. and other prominent member* of the shipping world. Die Board of Trade was represented by <ir Walter Howell, K.C.8., and <'aptain ( halmcr. and the Admiralty by Admiral Fremantle and Admiral Engineer Oram. Sir William White, the Hon. C. A. Parson* and Sir Fortescue Flannery were al*o present. Altogether it was one of the most successful gathering* of its kind held for a long time. Are New Zealanders ill mannered ? It certainly would be. news to me to learn that the manners of the average New Zealander are not as good as those of the average Englishman. Indeed, of the two, I would be inclined to put the New Zealander first. But an Oxford don. at an anti woman’s aufTragv meeting in Ixmdon this week, pul forward

as an argument against “Votes for Wojmn" the extraordinary statement that the “bad manners” of the New Zealanders at Oxford were . evidently the result of their mothers devoting too much time to politics and too little to the training of their children. One’s imagia tition reels at such an exhibition of professional inanity. Even if the New Zealanders at Oxford were ill-mannered (and 1 do not believe it for a moment), to attribute their lack of manners to woman’s suffrage is simply childish. 1 have heard many strange and fantastic arguments against the enfranchisement of women in the last year or two, but this one certainly caps them all. The “Field” discourses this week on the faults of the young Englishman abroad, and says; — ‘’Our young men who go to the colonies are apt to be what is vulgarly called ‘cocky,’ and the young colonial, being somewhat of the same temperament, is inclined to resent the new chum from 'the Old Country who gives himself airs. It is all very natural and very regrettable, but not incapable of/remedy if it is not taken too tragically by any of the parties concerned. A little humour and a little good-humour will go a long way towards putting matters on a better footing. The Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., who has been spending the past year in England, intends returning to N“W Zealand by the Tongarior next month. Mr Smith had proposed making a much longer stay, but the sad death of his daughter some time ago. and his own ill-health, have led him to curtail his visit. Sir George Hay ter Chubb entertained at dinner one evening this week at the Hotel Metropole, to meet the Hon. G. J. Smith, of New Zealand, the following gentlemen:—Mr Balfour. Viscount Wolverhampton, the Lord Mayor-elect (Sir G. Wyatt Truscott). Sir John S. Randles, M.P., Aiderman Sir Charles Wakefield, the Rev. .1. Chritchison, Mr E. Parkes, M.P., Mr E. Spicer, Mr C. A. Chubb, Mr Lamour, Mr W. Holmes, and Mr G. G. Exton. Miss Oonah Fitzgerald. the granddaughter of the late James Edward Fitzgerald. New Zealand’s first Premier, was married a few days ago in the parish church of Worplesdon. near Guildford, to Mr Albert de Castro Glubb. The ceremony was of a private character. The bride’s father (Mr Gerald Fitzgerald) lives in Wellington. Mr Giubb belongs to a well-known family at Liskeard, Cornwall. Miss Grace Joel, of Dunedin, is the only Antipodean artist to have a canvas on view at the New Gallery Exhibition of the Society of portrait Painters. Her picture is that of a young girl, and may be described as “a harmony in pink.” It is exceedingly well done, and deserves the place awarded it by the selectors—a position “on the line” in the principal room. Very few outsiders indeed have managed to get into the S.P.P. show this year, and Miss Joel is naturally much gratified at her success. Alisa Catherine Aulsebrook, the Auckland contralto, has been engaged to understudy at Covent Garden, in the coming opera season. two important parts —• Siebei in “Faust” ami Waltraute in “Die Walklire.” Miss Aulsebrook sang at one of the Queen’s Hall promenade concerts this season, ami created a favourable impression by her rendering of Handel’s “Lascia Ch’io Pianga.” The New Zealand Association had a Very successful meeting at the Westminster Palace Hotel thi* week. A ■whist-drive was arranged, and 48 ladies and gentlemen took part in the tournament. I'he first prize for ladies, an enamel pendant and chain, was won by Mi-s E. M. Norton, and the second prize, an enamel brooch, by Mrs Sam Cook; while Mr Sidnev J Nathan won the men’s prize, a moro< < o leather pocketbook. Mr ( . Wra ; , Palliser presented the prizes. "rite Rev. W !■ Paige, who died this Week at Paignton, Devonshire. at the age of 72. hvhl .several livings in New Zealand during his clerical career. He was ordained in 1859, and acted a- cur ate of Bt. James’s. Plymouth, from 1859 l,ov JMfIL He was .-iibseipn nI Iv chaplain of the gaol and heailmastoi of the grammar bool in Antigua West Indies, until I-HtW, when hr beiame incijinbrnt of All Zonin’. Antigua, after which he went to New Zealand. Hr left (hr Dominion several years ago. and on his return to England Ix-camo a most active worker for the .'<»ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel.

Recruit callers at the High Commissioner’s Ollier Mr J. 8. Rose, and Mrs A. H. Rose (Wellington). Mr MaxwellWalker (Auckland). Mr 11. A. E. Roth well (Wellington), Mr Alex. S. Miller (Oamaru), Mr Augustus Henniker (Greymouth), Mr F. Taylor, Mrs Taylor, Misses E. and R. Tayior (Auckland), Mr el. J. Clark (Melbourne), Mr E. A. Ogle (Auckland). Mr and Mrs -1. King (Dunedin), Mr Ernest Pull, Miss Henriquette Maude (Napier). Air J. A. Mason represented the High Commissioner for New Zealand at the banquet held at the Criterion on November 4, by the Atlantic Union to celebrate the establishment of penny postage between Great Britain and the United States and the visit of’ (he American fleet to New Zealand and Australia. The British Postmaster-General (Mr Buxton) and the American Ambassador (Mr Whitelaw Reid) made speeches of mutual congratulation on the achievement of penny postage, and the Right Hon. E. G. Pretyman made graceful reference to the American fleet’s recep lion in Australia. Captain Collins and the Hon. J. W. Taverner responding. The Bishop of Dunedin is returning to New Zealand by the Omrah. The Countess Mount Cashel and Mr and Mrs 11. Topham are going to New Zealand by the same vessel. Miss Mary Esther Hobson, daughter of the late Captain Wiliam Hobson, R.N., first Governor of New Zealand, died at Penlee House, Stoke, Devonshire, on October 29.