PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 8 March 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES.

.- Mr<- Arthur Palmer, son of the late Archdeacon Palmer, has left Auckland for Sydney, en route to England. General defence orders notify that Captain F. B. Mabin (Reserve of Officers), late finance .member of the Council of Defence, is to be Director of Accounts. ■Ex-Inspector Gillies was last week presented by the Christchurch police force with a Chesterfield suite of furniture, and received for Mrs. Gillies a handsome diamond brooch, and for his niece (Miss Newcombe) a handsome diamond bracelet. It is definitely announced that Mr. C. A. Monpkton, who has been resident in the district for the last two years, will stand for the Otaki seat as an Opposition candidate at the general election this year. Mr. John Husband, who has resigned his position as factory manager for Messrs. Grey and Menzies, Ltd., was last week presented with a valuable case of pipes, in recognition of the esteem in which he is held by the employees of the firm. He purposes leaving shortly on a holiday visit to Sydney. The Rev. Father Finn, who arrived at Auckland from Gisborne on Thursday, was presented with a purse of sovereigns and several other souvenirs before leaving his old cure. Mr. A. A. Schmitt, provincial secretary of the Farmers’ Union, has left the Clcvedon district and taken up his residence at Ellerslie, his increasing duties in connection with the work of the union demanding his constant attendance in town. Private advices have been received (says a Dunedin Press Association telegram) of the death at Alameda, a suburb of San Francisco, of Mr. W. C. Roberts; for many years manager Bank of New Zealand here. He was killed in a street car accident. The Rev. Father Van Dijk contemplates leaving Dargaville on Sunday, on a trip to Holland. He will be away about twelve months, and during his absence the affairs of the parish will be / administered by Father Zanna.—(Own Correspondent.) Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Taylor, ot Reinuera, left by the Victoria on Monday for Sydney, where they join the Otranto for London, on an extended tour. Mr. Taylor has experienced many of, the vicissitudes of early, colonisation in New Zealand, having served in the Colonial forces against Te Kooti and Titokowaru at Wanganui, under Lieut.-Col. Lyon and Col. Whitmore. A cable message received in Auckland on Thursday last, announced the death of Mrs. Cleary, mother of the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. The deceased lady was in her 80th year and

MMed away on Wednesday fortified by the rites of her Church. The late Mrs. Cleary,.wasa member of the Sutton family of Oak Hall, Wexford, and was a descendant, in the direct line, of the Suttons, knights of Baltvkerogue Castle, who first came to Wexford County in 1171. Another branch of the sxme family have occupied Old Court, Hook, for over seven centuries. A first cousin of Dr. Cleary’s mother, the Rev. Charles William Wall, D.D., was long Vice-Pro-ypst of Trinity College, Dublin. He was a noted Orientalist, and left to Trinity a great collection of books and manuscripts, and in 1858 an endowment of £2,000 for five bursaries for the study of Semitic languages. A fine marble bust of Dr. Wall is to be seen in the library of Trinity. Sisters M. B. Bell and M. G. Williams, who are leaving the Auckland Hospital with the intention of visiting the Old Country, were on Monday night the recipients of tokens of esteem from the nursing staff, Miss Bell being presented with a lady’s suit, case, and Miss Williams with a gold pendant. In the coarse of the remarks made concerning their departure, expression was given to the cordial feeling which existed between the sisters and the other members of the staff. Sister Bell has been in the service of the Board for fifteen years, and Sister Williams for thirteen years. It is their intention to take the special course of nursing which is provided at the Rotunda, Dublin. In view of their long and excellent service to the Hospital the Board has granted the retiring sisters three months’ leave on full pay, accompanied by letters expressing warm appreciation of their work. They will leave on March 20, for Sydney, there to join the Grosser Kurfurst for Southampton. Mr. Thos. Weimar McKenzie, the oldest resident of Wellington, died last week. Deceased was born in London in 1827, and arrived with his widowed mother at Wellington in 1840. In the same year he became apprenticed to the “New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator,” the first two editions of which paper were published in London. Subsequently, with Messrs. Vincent, Fellingham and Muir, he established the. “Wellington Independent” (now the “New Zealand Times.”) After some years he became sole proprietor. He also established the “New Zealand Mail” and Wellington Almanac. On the incorporation of the “New Zealand Times” Company Mr. McKenzie became manager and secretary, and he retired when the business changed hands some time afterwards. Apart from piloting the Wellington Building Society through a difficult financial period he afterwards lived a quiet life free from business cares. Prior to his retirement he was identified with almost every, phase of ‘social business interests in the city; he was Past Master of the Masonic Lodge, and the oldest Oddfellow in Wellington, having held the highest rank in that society. Deceased was 84 years of age, and is believed to have been the oldest journalist in Australasia at the time of his death. —Press Association. The appointment of Mr. Arthur Guise to be private secretary of his Excellency the Governor is gazetted. A reception was tendered to Miss Amy Castles at the Grand Hotel, Wellington, last week, between two and three hundred leading citizens and musical folk being present. Mr. and Mrs. H. Whitson, of Parnell, who have been on a visit to America, returned by the Maitai on Thursday, and arrived by the mail train in Auckland on Saturday. Dr. James Douglas, for many years in charge of. the hospital at Queenstown died last week, aged 74. He was widely respected, professionally and personally. He was unmarried, and had been over 50 years in practice. — (Press Association.) The Hon. Dr. Collins, Dr. Cahill, Dr. Pollen, and Messrs H. P. Rawson, Arthur Hoby, and M. E. Turrell have been appointed to conduct examinations in dentistry in ■ accordance with the requirements of section 2 . of . the Dentists Amendment Act, 1910. Mr. M. Lewis, traveller for Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., was last week the recipient of a handsome presentation made by business men of the Northern Wairoa. on the occasion of his transfer to the New Plymouth district.— (Own correspondent.