PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 14, 7 April 1909, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES.

presentation to Adjnt»nt Grant. A presentation was made at the Auckland Garrison Officers’ Club last week to Captain-Adjutant S. A. Grant, who proceeds Home as one of the four New Zealand offieeis for military training in England. In making the presentation on behalf of the officers of the First Battalion Auckland Infantry, Lieut.-colonel Reed made a eulogistic reference to Captain Grant’s services since joining No. I Native Rifles in 1897. He joined the Seventh African Contingent as lieutenant. and had come back adjutant of the regiment, being appointed to his pi esent rank on retirement of Captain Han-owell in 191H1. Colonel Reed expressed sincere regret at losing such an energetic and capable officer, but congratulated him on his selection for military training in England. Replying, Captain Grant said that, he keenly, regretted severing his connection with the Battalion, but warmly appreciated the presentation and the kind remarks accompanying it. Mr. V. H. Reed, M.P. for Bay of Islands, is on a visit to Auckland. Dr. Whitton, of Oainaru, Is at present on a visit to the Thermal Springs District. Mr. R. Logan, of Messrs. R. A. Logan, Auckland, !is ht present visiting the South Islam!. Mr. E. Tregear (Secretary for Labour) has been paying an official visit to Auckland. The Hon. W. C. F. Carneross, M.L.C., has gone to Te Aroha to take a muchneeded rest. Captain and Mia. Meckleham, of Christchurch, are at present paying a visit to Rotorua. Dr. Meade, of Waikino, has been appointed medical officer to the Point-Eliza-beth Medical Association. The Hon. J. Rigg, M.L.C., will probably eland for the Wellington Mayoralty in the Labour interest. Mr. S. Wing, manager of Hellaby and Co., Ltd., Auckland, has been on a visit to Wellington. Sergeant Baskiville, of Wellington, has been transferred to Devonport, Auckland. Dr. Meade, of Waikino. Auckland, has been appointed medical officer to the Point Elizabeth Medical Association. Mr. Harold Beauchamp was last week re-elected chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand. Captain T. C. Collins has resumed command of the Wairund, which arrives from the South this week. Mr. J. R. Morley is chief officer. The Hon. J. A. Millar arrived at Rotorua on Saturday for a holiday. He proposes fishing in Lake Taupo and district. Mr. H. B. Priestly Wicks, of Christchurch. has been appointed by the Nelson Education Board as instructor at the Westport Technical School. Mr John Campbell, Government architect, is at present in Auckland on his annual leave. He returns south immediately after Easter. Colonel Wardrop Moore, of BJantyre, Scotland, who has been spending a fishing and shooting tour in the Dominion, has left on his return home. According to a Christchurch Press Association telegram, Mr. H. H. Louglman has consented to stand for the Mayoralty of that city. Mr. R. St. J. Beere, well-known in university and athletic circles, has been elected to the staff of the 'Wellington City Rifles as a junior subaltern officer. A Press Association telegram from Hastings states that Mrs G. P. Donnelly, who has been seriously ill some time, is in a most critical state. Mr. W. T. Glasgow, the retiring Secretary and Inspector of Customs, is leaving New Zealand with Miss Glasgow on a visit to England. Mr. J. Niven. M.A.. of the llawcra District High School, has been appointed instructor in science to the technical schools in Hawke’s Bay. Sir Edmund A. Lechmere, of Worcestershire, who is now in New Zealand, will have some fishing and deer-shooting in the North during his visit. The estate of the late Mr. Jas. Farmer, a former member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, who died last month in England, has been sworn at £79.756. Sir Edward Lechmere, at present on a visit to New 7 Zealand, intends to do some •hooting and fishing in the Waikato and King Country 7. Mr. Greeley Lukin, editor of the Well-

ington “ Post,” who is to attend the Conference in London, leaves Auckland on April 14, lor Suva, where lie connects with the Vancouver steamer.

Mr. Alfred J. .Johnson, of Ha r borne, England, brother of Mr. Arthur C. Johnson. Te Kuiti. is on a visit to New Zealand, and intends going to Rotorua for rscane trout fishing. The Rev. J. E. Dove, formerly of Den stone College, Staffordshire, who has be: n appointed master of Wanganui College, arrives at Wellington by the Ruapehu this week. Mr. Jas. Craigie. M.P., at the request of a deputation which waited on him last week consented to nomination for the Tiniaru Mayoralty for a seventh consecutive term. Mr. W. Falla, of the Union Steamship Company. Lyttelton office, lias been promoted to tlip position of branch auditor. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Accountants of New Zealand. Mr Beard, of the firm of Messrs Norman and Beard, England, has reached Auckland, where his firm have secured the contract for the erection of the new organ in the Town Hall. Mr S. W. Luxford, of Palmerston North, the well-known breeder of Ayrshires, intends to take up his residence in Auckland during the winter months. He will then probably take a trip to England. Mr. Crash, late purser of the Union Co.’s steamer Mara ma, who exchanged to the Mokena last week, at Auckland, and proceeded South by that vessel, will take up the position of agent for the company at Bluff. Sir Philip Brocklehurst, Mr. Macintosh, and Mr. Mawson, of the British Antarctic Expedition, left Christchurch on tarctic Expedition, have left Christchurch for the North Island and will visit Rotorua. Mr M. Harris, who is leaving Paeroa, was entertained in the concert hall last week (says our correspondent). Mr. H. Poland, M.P.. on behalf of those present, expressed their regret at losing Mr Harris from among them. Mr. A. G. Edmonds was last week appointed assistant-Town Clerk at Nelson, and the Council passed a resolution expressing appreciation of the services of Mr. H. \ . Gully, who has resigned his position as Town Clerk after thirtyfour years’ service. Mr. G. S. Titheradge, the well-known actor, who was taken seriously ill with appendicitis in Auckland some time ago, was sufficiently recovered as to be able to leave for Sydney by the Victoria <»n Monday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Titheradge.

Mr Arthur Eady, of the firm of Messrs A. Eady and Co. left Auckland on Monday by the s.s. Victoria for Sydney, where he joins the R.M.s. Omrah for London. He intends visiting Great Britain. Europe and America, and will be absent about six months.

Mr. W. H. Triggs (says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch) has resigned the editorship of the “Press,” in consequence of a disagreement with the Board of directors as to the representation of Christchurch at the Imperial Press Conference. The Official Assignee (Mr. E. Gerard) has been granted three months’ leave of absence, owing to nervous breakdown, and will proceed to Rotorua for medical treatment. Air. Hugh Gerard, of the Assignee’s Office, has been appointed acting -Official Assignee in the meantime. Superintendent Willoughby, of the Dunedin office of the Provident Life Assurance Company, is to take charge of the Palmerston North district of the company. He was presented by the Dunedin field staff with a travelling rug as a token of their esteem. Air. H. D. Crump, who has left for Auckland, was presented with a case of cake and fruit silver by the members of the Hastings Lawn Tennis Club, of which body he was for some years bon. secretary, says the Napier “Telegraph.” Captain R. H. Gibbons, of the Northern S.S. Co., lias been appointed harbourmaster and pilot at Alanukau from over fiO applications. Captain Fred. Hardy, formerly chief officer of the s.s. Ifinemoa. now master of the Otago Harbour Board dredge, has received an appointment as harbourmaster and pilot at Hokianga. Air C. V. Houghton, manager of the Auckland office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, accompanied by Airs Houghton, was a passenger by the Rant wa last week en route for Wellington to join the s.s. Paparoa for London, on a visit Home. They expect to return to New Zealand by November. Miss Amy Neilson, who is leaving Napier shortly, with her father, Air. John

Neilson, of Emerson-street, on. a visit to the Old Country, was presented by the employees of Mr. J. I*. Thomson’s drajxery establishment with a handsome silver-mounted hand mirror. Mr. Thomson presented Miss Neilson with a handsome travelling rug. Mr. R. Speight, who has left the staff ol the Christchurch Boys’ High School to take up the position of assistant curator to th? Christchurch Museum and lecturer in geology to Canterbury College, was presented by the scholars and old hoys with a prismatic compass as a memento of their e-teoni. Mr. Cyril G. Collins, of the Audit Depart num t, Wellington, has been transferred to Auckland. Mr. Collins, who i* a son of Colonel Collins, is lieutenant of the Post and Telegraph Rifles, and has been connected with that corp- for almost ten years. Mr. Eva. formerly of the Union Company’s Wellington office, now chief clerk at. the Alvlbourne office, is to take up the position of branch manager at Strahan, Tasmania. Mr. R. Back, sub-man-ager for the company at Bluff, will succeed Air. Eva at Melbourne. Air. .John Neilson, one of the chieftains of the Hawke's Bay Highland Society, was, on the eve of his departure from Napier on a trip to England, presented by Mr. Jamro McLean, on behalf cf the Society, with a handsome rug. Air. Neilson will be accompanied by his daughter. Air. W. R. Alltn. who has resigned from the position of Union Company’s pilot at Fiji, arrived by the Maitai at Wellington' from, Suva, on his way to Nelson. It is understood that Captain McKenzie, late acting master of the. Squall, will proceed shortly to Suva to take up duty as pilot for the Union Company. At the Wellington warehouse of Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ltd., last week. Air. U. Thompson, a popular member of the staff, was presented with a and also a silvei cigai-ette-oase by his fellow-employees, on the occasion of . his severing his connection with the company, in order to take a trip round the world. Mr. Walter Knowles, of the Stamp Office in Wellington, who is retiring today on, superannuation, is one of the most popular officers in the Department. He was a-t one time in the service of the Union Bank, after which he joined the National Bank. He then entered into busincfis on his own account, relinquishing it in order to accept an appointment in the Civil Service. The oldest public servant in New Zealand on the firnt day of the new financial year (April 1) was Air. James Mills, Collector of Customs at Auckland. He has been forty-eight years in the service. and beats Mr. W. T. Glasgow (Secretary for Customs) for lhe record by just a few months. Mr. J. D. Ritchie (Secretary for Agriculture) c-omos third on the li t of long-service officials. Dr. Marshall. who went to the University, wlio went to the Antarctic with the Nimrod expedition, is paying a short visit to Wellington, says th? “Dominion.’’ lb’ l was busily engaged at the photograpic studio of the Tourist Department. devtdoping some of the kineiratograph films which were taken in the polar regions These are developing very succe-sfullv, and the photographs taken on the Furthest South dash promise also to b(» very satisfactory. A large gathering assembled in the AVliitianga Hall recently to farewell Dr. and Airs. K. F. Gordon on the eve of their departure from Mercury Bay (says our correspondent). Dr. Gordon has been acting as locum tenons for Dr. John Craig dining the last twelve months, while the latter was visiting the Old Country. During their stay in Mercury Bay both Dr. and Mrs. Gordon have made themselves extremely popular with all classes of the community. Dr. Gordon was presented by Air. C. O’Brien, on behalf of the residents of the Mercury Bay Hospital district, with a handsome canteen of cutlery and silver. Dr. Craig has resumed his medical duties. Mr Rowley Hill. N.Z.C.. a well-known veteran, who has been attiuhed to the Auckland defence stores has retired from the Civil Service under the age limit, lie was last week presented by Col. Wolfe, 0.C.D., with a handsome travelling rug in the presence of the staff of the defence stores. Mr Hill in addition to the New Zealand cross, holds the Indian Alutiny medal, the Crimean medal, the Garibaldian medal, and a number of others, gained under arms, together with two awarded by the Royal Humane Society for saving life.

The impending retirement is announo e<l of Mr. (better known as sergeant) O'Grady, who lias Imhui in charge of the LalH.ur Bureau at Oainaru since its inception. He joint'd the police force in JBtil. and served in Uhriatchureb, Lyttelton Kaia|»oi. and Rangiora. Wlrile at Lyttelton he was promoted to tlie rank of sorgi'ant-inajor. He was afterwards stationed at Russel), Tliames, Greymouth. and Napier, being finally transferred to Oainaru. Air W. S. Douglas editor of the “New Zealand Herald,” who will attend the Imperial Press Conference in England, was entertained at a complimentary social ou Saturday evening by the stair of the newspaper at the Tiffin rooms. During the evening Mr Douglas was present*.J with a souvenir in the form of a smoker’s outfit, with a silver shield suitably hiseribed. Mr ami Mrs Douglas leave by the Main Trunk express tomorrow to join the Paparoa at Wellington.

Bishop Wilson, of Alelancrda. arrived in Sydney the Mongolia from London and left last week for Norfolk Island. After a w’<ck there he sails on the Southern •Cross. Iler cruise will be:—New Hebrides, Banks' Islands, Torres leland. Santa Cruz Islands. Solomons. The steamer will be bark in ten weeks (she is now in A tick hurt!), but the Bishop will stay till October in the Solomons. The Southern Cross will pick him up, ami bring him to Norfolk Island at the end of November. Captain Neale, who has been harbourmaster at Onehunga for the past eleven years, and is retiring from the Government service as he is over the age limit, was presented laot week with an address expressing appreciation of the manner in which he carried out his duties during his term of office. Air. John Rowe, Mayor of Onehunga. who made the presentation on behalf of the subscriljcrs, said Captain Neale had earn- < «1 th? goodwill and esteem of all sections of the community, especially of all engaged in shipping, and lhe travelling public. Messrs. J. .1, Shaldrick, Jas. Mclntyre. Saunders, (’ole. and others also spoke eulogist ically of the work « f the retiring harbourmaster. Air AL Flannery gaoler of Napier prison, who is retiring from the Civil Service undei- the age limit, was Its week presented with an address from the citizens of Napier. The Mayor (Mr. .J. Vigor Brown, M.P.) presided, and there was a representative gathering of townspeople. The Mayor said the citizens felt they could not let Mr Flannery retire from the public service without giving him some token as a mark of their appreciation of the manner n which he had carried out his duties. Mr Flannery had held a position in the public service for 46 years, and it was generally regretted that he was retiring. Mr. F. J. AL D. Walmsley, the retiring Deputy Commissioner of Taxes, has had sixty years' residence in New Zealand. After two years' service in the Postal Department, Mr. Walmsley joined the Bank of New Zealand, and later, in 1865, the Bank of New South Wales. While acting as tin\ oiling officer on the West Coast, he was “held up'* by a party of five armed men and relieved of over £4.000 in gold d’ist ami notes. Nothing was ever heard of the bushrangers, though the Governnu nt offered a reward of £6OO and a free i».irdon to an accomplice. Subseuuentlv Mr. Walmsley entered the service of the National Bank, to resign some years later in order to go farming. In 1870 he took service under the Government at Napier, and was transferred to Wellington in 1894. Mr. Geo. Fletcher (late manager of the Westport Coal Company’s Millerton Mine) has just returned from an extended tour of the Old Country. He has visited several up-to-date collieries in the Ohl Country. LONDON. February 26. Two New Zealanders had the honour of captaining the two rival Rugby teams of Guy’s Hospital and London Hospital at Richmond on Wednesday, and both were presented to the Prince of Wales, who was an interested spectator of the match between the two hospitals. L. B. Stringer, of Christchurch, led the Guy’s team, and London were captained by J. M. Mehalfey, late of Otago University. They were presented to the Prince before the start of the match, and the two teams lined up in front of the royal box to welcome the distinguished occupants with a hearty cheer. The match, which was one of the semi-final for the Hospital Cup. was notable more for the liveliness of the 3000 students in tho crowd than for the excellence of the

iootlw.ll. Both teams were too excited to play well, though Guy’s kept their heads better than the London-team, and showed betted form. X After a rousing game Guy’s won by 8 points (one goal, one try) to nil, London being fairly and squarely beaten.

London had no fewer than ten New Zealanders in their fifteen, and they started favourites. The men from the Dominion comprised A. CL Palmer, A. A. Adams, and I). G. Macpherson (threequarters), A. S. Heale and A. B. Lindsay (halves), J. M. Mehaffey. E. McEwan, S. R. Harrison, P. Foote, ajid G. M. C-hapman (forwards). In the Guy's team there .were two New Zealanders —L. B. Stringer (threequarter) and H. Hoby (forward). London never settled down to a steady game. Uieir forwards were Tagged and unable to obtain the ball, and Guv's, by reason of their more systematic methods, always looked like winning, and deserved their success. Early in the game Stringer, following up his own kirk, gained a try, and in the second half Stokes also scored after a rapid run and placed a goal, rhe result practically settles the competition, as neither St. Thomas’ nor Middlesex, who have already played a drawn game in the other semi-final, can hope to defeat Guy’s.

L. B. Stringer, the Guy’s captain, played finely all through the game. A. Palmer, the most dangerous try-get ting man on the field, was starved by his halves and centres. He made excellent use of his one and only real opportunity. but was forced into touch just when he looked likely to score. Lindsay at half back gave himself too much to do, and did not trust his back division enough. Adams played a sound game, but Macpherson could rarely get going, and Heale was not at his best. Mehaffey, Harrison, and McEwan were conspicuous in the loose, as also was Hoby on the Guy’s side. The Hon. W. Peniber Reeves, late High Commissioner for New Zealand, and now Director of the London School of Economics, presided at the annual dinner of the School last Saturday evening, □’he toast of the School was proposed by Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P.; and Mr. Reeves, in replying, said that Mr. Samuel had the good fortune to be a governor of the School. Had he been' a student instead, there was no knowing to what height he would not have soared; he might even have been in the shadow of • Premiership. (Laughter.) Mr. Samuel, in the course of his Speech, said that not only did the School do great work in an economic sense, but it helped them a great deal with its intellectual climate in which they were trained. Times were changing; we were living in the days of four-inch Blue Books—(laughter)—and year by year our social system became more and more complex. Society had reached a condition when it could not be managed by mere amateurs, and men were required who had received a thorough training and a liberal education in social subjects. That education the fechool gave its students. New Zealand papers are asked to record the death of Dr. Thomas Radford King. F.R.C.S., which occurred on February 17 at 17 Gloucester-walk, Campden Hill, London. Dr. King died of heart failure, after three days’ illness. Mrs. Sidney Plummer, of Auckland, arrived by the Arawa from New Zealand last Friday, after a fast passage of only five weeks and two days. Mrs. Plummer intends to take up residence in this country, probably in Ismdon. Her husband is second officer on the Rimutaka, which is due from New Zealand tomorrow.

The New Zealand Association is holding a reception in honour of the new High Commissioner for the Dominion, the Hon. \\ . Hall-Jones, this evening, at the Westminster Palace Hotel. The gathering will be well supported by members of the Neu Zealand colony in London and their friends.