Personal Notes

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4, 24 July 1912, Page 5

Personal Notes

CABINET has decided that Mr C. E. AlacCormiek, a Judge of the Native Land Court, shall act as Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands. Captain J. Eman Smith is to be retained meantime in M ellington. He will be occupied partly with matters pertaining to the Cook Islands and partly in other duties. Of the approaching departure of the Rev. Canon Garland from Brisbane, to organise the campaign in New Zealand in favour of religious instruction in State schools, the Brisbane Churca Chronicle” says:—‘No man in Australia can claim a greater knowledge of the question, or greater ability to handle it than Canon Garland, and wherever the campaign is undertaken his advice would naturally be the first to be sought. He has already taken the lead in the successful efforts of Western Australia and Queensland to secure religious freedom in the schools, and his acceptance of th? New Zealand invitation is thus full of promise for the success of the campaign in that Dominion. That his- departure will be keenly regretted in his parish goes without saving. During his five years at Holy Trinity, Woolloongabba, he has built up a congregation whose attendance and devotion at the services of their church constitute an example to the whole diocese. But it speaks well for the type of ehurehmanship which he has produced there that his parish council, whilst’ deeply regretting the personal loss which his departure would involve, yet urged him in the interests of the Church in Australasia to accept th? proffered invitation.” Canon Garland leaves Brisbane for New Zealand on August 6. Mr. C. J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland, is due to arrive back from his visit to Sydney on the 4th of next month. The musical friends of Mr. Abel Rowe farwelled him (prior to h s departure for Brisbane) at the Strand Cafe, and took the opportunity of presenting him with a handsome gold watch with fob attached, both bearing appropriate inscriptions. Mr. W. Blomfield presided, and Mr. Peter Mackie on behalf of the subscribers made the presentation, referring in eulogistic terms to Mr. Rowes generous use c-f his talents in any deserving cause during the past two decades. The death has occurred of Mr. Joseph Lachmann, a well-known Wellington business man. He was aged 73, and a native of Lobenz. Germany. In 1869 he came to New Zealand, and joined the firm of P. Hayman and Co., at Dunedin, with the head of the firm, of which he was connected by- family ti*e, and managed the Wellington branch 28 years. The deceased was a Freemason of long standing and' high degree. He was Past Grand Master and Past Grand Warden of the Royal Arch Chapter. Rose Croix, and the 33rd degree was conferred upon him personally in London in 1895. He took a great interest in cricket, of which he was a promoter in Wellington. Mr. Lachmann is survived by his widow- and two married daughters, viz.. Mrs. Ernest Gillon, of Westport, and Mrs. I. Schloss, of Vpper Willis Street. The death has occurred at Christchurch of the Rev. Decimus Dolamore, the oldest Baptist minister in the Dominion, and senior minister of the Baptist denomination in Australasia. The New Zealand Trotting Conference has elected the following officers:— President, Mr. John Rowe: vi e president, Mr. 11. J. Gore: executive, Messrs. Roberts, Pannell, Gore, Mackay and Rowe.

Mrs. M. Cohen, of Palmerston, and Miss Nathan arrived at Melbourne by the Otranto, from London, last week. Mr. Maurice Cohen left Palmerston recently for Melbourne (via Sydney) to meet Mrs. Cohen and her sister, and after sojourning in New South Wales, the party are expected to leave for New Zealand about the end of this month. Mr Alex. Webster, at present clerk to the Petone Borough Council, has been selected, out of thirty applicants, for the position of clerk, treasurer, and surveyor to the Ellesmere County Court oil. Mr. F. J. Wrigley, retiring managing director of Messrs. Wingate and Co., was presented by the staff with a suitably inscribed gold watch. Mrs. Wrigley was presented with a handsome piece of plate. Mr. Wrigley intends to take up fruit farming at Henderson Valley, and Mr. Ernest Wigg. who has for some years been associated with Messrs. Wingate and Co., has been appointed managing director. Mr. A. P. Reid, president of the King's College Old Boys’ Association, was a passenger by the Main Trunk express last evening for Wellington, where he will represent his association at the annual dinner of the English Public Schools Old Boys’ Association, to be held to morrow. It is gazetted that the King has been pleased to approve the retention of the title of "Honourable” bv Sir James Carroll, K.C.M.G.. Mr J. A.'Millar. Mr Roderick McKenzie, Mr David Buddo. and Mr Aspirana Turupa Ngata. all of whom have served more than three years as members of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand. Advice has been received by Mr. Graham Reid, tire honorary secretary of the King's College Old Boys' Association, that his Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) will be pleased to accept t’.ie position of patron to that body. The fiftieth anniversary of a wedding that was contracted in Auckland is an exceptional occurrence, and, when the parties concerned have played a prominent part in the early history of Auckland, as Air and Mrs J. C. Morrin have done, is of more than passing interest. Air and Airs Alorrin were married In St. Als Mhew’s Church on July.l9, 1862, by the late Rev. David Jones. Last week they celebrated their golden wedding at Otahuhu in the midst of a circle of relatives extending well into the third generation. In the early days Air Alorrin was a well-known business man in Auckland, and during the whole period of fifty years Airs Alorrin, a talented soprano vocalist, has been a conspicuous figure in musical circles and an earnest and unselfish participant in church work. The celebration yesterday included a special service at Holy Trinity Church, Otahuhu, which was conducted by the Rev. 11. Mason, Airs Alason presiding at the organ. At its conclusion, the reverend gentleman presented Air and Airs Alorrin with a congratulatory address, signed by the churchwardens and vestrymen of Holy- Trinity and the heads of the several societies connected with church work in which it was said that "the past fifty years of Air and Airs Morrin’s life had been one continuous calendar full of records done in God's service and for the good of the Church.” During the day complimentary and congratulatory letters and telegrams were received in scores from old friends in Auckland district and throughout the Dominion. Airs Alorrin is one of the oldest, if not the oldest surviving working member of the Auckland Choral Society. In 1361, as a girl of sixteen, she made her first public appearance as an amateur vocalist in Au kland at the Christmas performance of "The Alessiah.” taking the s do ‘T Know that my Redeemer Liveth.” For many years subsequently she was one of the society's solciste. In this con nection it is interesting to observe her voice is still so well preserved that last night she sang a solo and a duct with her daughter most charmingly and capably. With tbe exception of one eon. Air and Airs Alorrin’s children are all alive. One daughter is Mrs R. W. S. Ballantyne, of Wellington, another is Airs Arthur Littler, of Dcvonport, a third Airs \V. J. tie I lb of X.ipier. while Misses Clarice and Lite Morrin are still unmarried. The son* are Mr I. M. Mor rin. of Cambridge, Air Morrin of Wanganui, and .Mr Vincent Alorrin, of Otahuhu.

After 51 years' residence in New Zealand, a widow named Eliza Bryan died very suddenly on Sunday at her residence, No. 70, West Street, Sewto.i The deceased was a native of Glasgow, and the mother of thirteen children, of whom eleven survive her. After being ill for some weeks the Hon. E. Alitehelson is making good progress towards recovery. A number of Publie Works Department engineers in the Auckland district have lately been transferred and promoted. Air T. Burd, assistant road engineer at Hamilton, has been promoted to be resident road engineer at Tauranga. Air G. AL Oonaldson, assistant road engineer at Tauranga, has been transferred in the same capacity to Te Kuiti. Air C. 11. Williams, assistant road engineer at Te Kuiti, has been transferred to Hamilton as assistant road engineer. In addition it has been arranged that the road engineers at New Plymouth. Wanganui, Te Kuiti, and Tauranga shall in future act independently of the railway engineers, and shall communicate with the head office direct. Last Sunday was the forty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Canon Jordan, of Tauranga. as a clergyman of the Church of England. He was ordained) by the Honourable and Right Rev. Dr. Bernard on July 14. 1867. in St. Alary’s Cathedral. Team, County Gal way, Ireland, for the curacy of Bangor, in the parish of Kilcomon. Erris. He was associated with church work in Ireland till 1872. and left on September 4 of that vear for the cure of Tauranga. being appointed thereto by the commissaries of the then Bishop of Waiapu. the Rev. Dr. William Williams. Air Jordan reached Tauranga on December 31. 1872. so that at the end of this year he will have, served forty years in the Tauranga parish. Air. W. Eyre-Kenny, head of the Ahnes Department in tbe Federated Alalay States, who. with Airs. Eyre-Kenny, is visiting Auckland, will return to Malaya short!v. In the meantime Air. and Mrs. Eyre-Kenny are staying at the Star Hotel. At a meeting of the directors of the Campbell and Ehrenfried Co.. Ltd., a resolution was passed, placing on record the board's deep sense of the loss sns tained not only by the company, but also by the whole Dominion, through the death of Sir John Logan C impbell. Bv Sir John's death, the office of ehair man of directors became vacant, and Air Arthur AL Myers, ALP., was an pointed to the position. The vacancy on the directorate was filled by the appointment of Air Alfred S. Bankart, so that Alessrs Arthur AL Alyers, ALP., Leo. AL Alyers, and Alfred S. Bankart now form the board of directors. Air ■Edward AVarne Rowllings, who for over 20 years has teen connected with th’ company, was appointed to the office of secretary-, rendered vacant by the retirement from that position of Air A- S Bankart.