Personal Notes

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 26 June 1912, Page 6

Personal Notes

JTTTDVK'K from Rotorua states that, y | there has been a great improve.J ment in the lion. J. A. Mihars condition. The blood pressure Jias gone down a good deal, and his sightis slowly returning over the whole of tne aftected eve. There is every cnance of his making a complete recovery wit a ca re. The Jewish community of Dunedin ha* given a call to the Hex. M. Dimond, of Newcastle. New South Wales. Air Walter Hi<lop. of the Napier Deed* Office, has been promoted to Assistant J.aml Registrar and Deputy-Registrar o: Deeds in the <anie office, to succeed Mr. J. A. Eraser, promoted to Gisborne. Mr. W. 11. Field, ex ALP. for Otak . will be entertained by the residents of Waikanae and district at Mahara House. Waikanae on Ist July. Sir Joseph Ward Jias accepted an invitation to be present. Mr John Murray, one of the early and sturdy pioneers of the West (’oast, died at tiie Grey River Hospital last week, aged !M> year-. Deceased was a native of Waterford. Ireland, and was wellknown on the Coast. Mr Walter King, of the Public Works Department, and a nephew of the Hon. C. 11. Mill-, dir I at the Auckland Hospl tai last week. He had been engaged in Departmental work at Te Puke, where lie contra, ted a severe cold, which settled on his lungs, death supervening. Air. W. \\ . de Castro, who has been District Land Registrar. Registrar ot Deeds, and Examiner of Titles, at Nelson for the past twenty years, has receive: notice of his transfer on promotion to Dunedin. During his residen- e in Nelson Mr 4e ( astro iiA- taken a very keen interest in Freemasonry, and besides being a P.AI. of Ix>dge Victory. he attained the distinction of being a P.P.G.M. of the Nel-on an I Marlborough districts. He was a!-o a prominent bowler and was last year secretary of the Nelson Bowling t hib. Mr. Michael Mullooly. who died at Poverty Bay last week. came from County Athlone. Ireland. He served in the. Hawke’s Bay volunteers (infantry*) under Captain Tuke in 1865, and took part in the engagements with the other forces at Waiapu and other engagements that culminated in the tight at Waerenga-a-hika. In 1866 the raptured and surrendered rebels were deported to the Chatham*. together with a guard under Captain Tuke (brother of the officer previously mentioned'. Mullooly was a niemi. r of the garrison. Two years later the rebels, under Te Kooti, overpowered the guard and seized the Rifleman. MiHlnoly resi-ted -irenuoa-ly but was made prisoner, and was left lied up in the frenrb.es. Mullooly was very near l>eing shujt. and would Lave br»-n >o but for his rather friendly relations with some of thi nat res. Subsequently Mr Mullooly settled at Tolaaa Bay. where he at one time held - | roperty. The old soldier -ettlers of New Zealand are gradually passing away. The last to go was Mr. J. AV. Thurston, who died, aged sixty-six. at Waverley. He was a native of Hobart, but came to New Zealand with his parents as a child. When the war broke out Mr Thurston joined General Cameron’s forces ami he was present at the engagement with the Maori- at Nukumaru. when a large number of pakeha soldiers fell. Forty years ago Air I hurston took up land at Waverley, an 1 was afterwards appointed Crown Land* Ranger for the district. In he was appointed vlerk to the Wav- < rley Town Board, which post he relinquished through ill health in 1910. AA hen the AAairoa troop of light horse was formed in 1872 the late Mr Thurston joined as sergeant and served eon tinuously in the corp* for thirty years being lioutenan of the troop when he resigned. In hi- day he was a note I shot and iimm! to attend regularly the meeting- .>f the National Rifle Association. 1 he death »M« urreJ at Wellington last Vwk of Mr. S. C. Barraud, who was annotated manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Louer Hut: in D 79, an! he tired a few V ear- ago lh- Aiudi.an Bishop of Auckland (Ihr. < r«ws|ey > ha- Ims-h naked tn preach the sermon at the consecration of the Bi*bop-ele< t of (Rev. W. <’. Badlier). The ronferriug of the Imperial Service Order, ani«mg the King’s Birthday honours, upon Mr. Donald Robertson,

Secretary of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, and Mr. John Stiauchon, Un dor-See ret ary of Lands, is a recognition of long and faithful service rendered by both officials to the (’rown. Mr. Robertson joined the Postal Department as a cadet in Dunedin in 1878, rising by his own diligence and ability to the high position he now occupies. Mr. Strauchon entered the Provincial .Engineers Department in 1862, and three years later joined the Survey' Department, going through th* various grade- until reaching the important office of Vnder-Secretary. His predecessor. Air. W. C. Kensington, al>o earned hi- 1.5.0. A large gathering of Auckland business men assembled in the Chamber of Commerce last week to make a presentation to Air. J. D. Greig, who has been local manager for the Bank of Australasia for the past seven years, and is now retiring on superannuation. The presentation took the form of a cheque for £lOO, subscribed for by clients of the bank, and a framed address signed by the representative- of over thirty business firms. Air. J. 1). Hall, who presided, spoke in very high terms of Mr. Greig, who, he said, was esteemed equally as a business man and a friend. He wished Air. Greig many happy years of retirement after his labours, and expressed the hope of the gathering that he would continue to live in Auckland. Air. A. D. Stewart (Sargood, ami Ewen) read a letter from his prinvipal. Air. T. Finlayson, who is away from Ainkland. expressing a high opinion of Air. Greig’s services to the business community. Mr. Greig suitably returned thanks. Mr. (treig intimated that after a trip to the 1-lands ami Sydney he would settle permanently in Auckland. On Ahmday afternoon Mr. Greig received a presentation from the Auckland staff of the bank and the managers of the Hamilton and Whangarei branches, in the form of a -nit case and travelling rug. Mr. and Mrs. AA'. J. Bray, late of Devonport. with their family, left for the Island and Sydney by the Tofua last week. The deaths are announced of three old Southland residents, Mr. Robert Cleave (nurseryman), Mr. Robert Wesney (an active temperance worker), and Mr. Duncan K. Macßae (a well known farmer of Mokoreta), who died in Edinburgh yesterday.Mr. T. K. Honan, an old and muchrespected resident of Onehunga. died somewhat suddenly last week. He had been for many years headmaster of the Roman Catholic Collegiate School at Onehunga. The deceased, who wais nearly 70 years of age, leaves a widow and grown-up family. Mr. John Smith, who has been a mem-Iw-r of the AVeHington City Council since 1885, ami was acting-Mayor during the abHcn.-P of Mr. T. M. AA ilford. M.P., was la.-t week presented by the AVeHington citizens with a purse of sovereigns, in recognition <‘f his services to the citv. The presentation was made bv the Alavor, Mr. D. McLaren. Mt. H. D. Heather. who is about to take a trip to Australia, has been granted leave absence by the Auckland Harbour Board, of which he i, a member, and it was decided to give him a letter of introduction to the Sydney harbour authorities, as he intends to study barla>ur methods while across the Tasman The Rev. Wilfrid Gore Browne, M.A., son of late Colonel Sir Thomas Gore Browne, K.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, 1555-61, is to be consecrated Bishop of Kimberley, South Africa, on St. Peter’s Day. June 29. The Standing Committee of the Auckland diocese has arranged to send him a congratulatory ■■able from the diocese in which he was horn. The Bishop-elect left England for South Africa in 1902, to become Rector of Pretoria. He was made Dean of Pretoria in 1909.

Rev. W. J. L. • loss. 8.A.. minister of Trinity Congregational Church, Christ- . hiin h, has accepted a call to Brighton Church, Melbourne, and will leave at the end <>f August.

Mr E. Doekrill lias been appointed . liairman of the New Plymouth High — hool Hoard, in place of Mr N. K. MaeDiannid, who has resigned. Mr Wm. Swelling, J.P., died suddenly at his residence at Kaponga last week. Death was due to heart disease. Dec« Med luvd large interests in Kaponga.

He was chairman of directors of the Kaponga Dairy C 0.,« a director of the Moturoa freezing works, a councillor of the Eltham County Council, a former chairman of the Kajsjnga Town Board, a member of the Hawera Charitable Aid Board, and a .member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board. He was about 55 years of age, a widower, and leaves one child. A Press Association cable annbuiiees that Mr. Ernest Hume, selector of the New South Wales Cricket Association, died in London of pneumonia. He accompanied the Australian eleven Home.

Captain Chambers has been appointed commander of H.M.s. Encounter

A London cablegram announces that Mr. E. T. Cook, late editor of the "Garden,” has been knighted. Mr. G. F. C. Campbell, Commissioner of Taxes, who is a cousin of the late Sir John Logan Campbell, arrived from Wellington by the express yesterday to attend the funeral to-morrow.

Major Harris, M.L.C., leaves for Wellington by the Main Trunk express this evening. Mr. John Bollard, M.P., also leaves by this evening's train.

Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, was a passenger by the Main Trunk train, Sunday evening, on his way to Christchurch, to attend the jubilee of the foundation of the Christchurch diocese, and, incidentally., the jubilee of Bishop Grimes. Mr. Percy Hallenstein, managing director of the D.1.C., Christehureh. arrived by the Main Trunk train on Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Hallenstein, Mrs. E. Hallenstein. of Dunedin, and Mr. E. Hallenstein, of England. The party is staying at the Grand Hotel. Cabled information has been received from Philadelphia, notifying that J. C. Finlay, son of Mr. Thomas Finlay, Mount Albert, has successfully passed his final examination in dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, taking the degree of