Personal Notes

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 20 November 1912, Page 5

Personal Notes

/T\ ISS LORIMER, principal of Nel--1 I 1 fton < -' !r ’ 3 ’ has received A I 1 intimation by cablegram of the J death in England of Miss M. Kirton. first assistant mistress at the college' who left in April for a holiday tour'in Europe. Miss Kirton was a daughter of Mr R. Kirton, formerly chief postmaster at Nelson, and now residing at New Plymouth. She graduated at Canterbury College, and had been on the staff of the eollege for ten years. The news of her untimely death came as a great shock to her colleagues and pupils, by whom she was held in affectionate regard. Mr F. C. Turner, a prominent resident, has been unanimously elected Mayor of Eketahuna by the council, to fill the yacaney caused by the resignation of Mr Page, who has been appointed a stipendiary magistrate. Sir Joseph Ward, accompanied by Lady Ward and Miss Ward, will leave before the end of the month on a visit to England. He will leave from the Bluff for Australia, en route to London. He is not quite certain of the exact date of his departure from the Dominion, but he Will return to New Zealand about the end of May next. He will travel via Suez. The Rev. O. R. Hewlett, vicar of Wakefield, Nelson, has handed in his resignation to the Bishop owing to ill-health. Nurse Boyd has resigned from the 'Auckland Hospital in order to take up a position at the Kawakawa Hospital.

Dr. R. Walton has received the appointment of honorary anaesthetist for the Auckland Hospital. Dr. W. N. Abbott has been granted six months’ leave of absence by the Hospital Board. During the absence of the Hon. James Allen from the Dominion, the Hon. W. Eraser (Minister of Public Works) will net as Minister of Finance, the Hon. 11. D. Bell, K.C., will take the portfolio of Education, and the Hon. R. H. Rhodes will temporarily have charge of Defence matters.

Professor MacMillan Brown, of Christchurch, has returned from his six months sojourn in the Malay Archipelago. ■Miss Fraser, late principal of Wanganui Girls’ College, who has been appointed principal of Havelock Nortn Presbyterian Ladies’ College, was introduced to and welcomed by the General Assembly at Wellington last week. The death occurred at Auckland last week of Sister Mary Columba. Deceased, who passed away after undergoing an operation, was the daughter of Mr Collerton, of Tinul (Wairarapa). She had been a member of the Brigidiae Order for nearly eleven years. Her remains were interred at Masterton last Friday.

Mr. H. W. Roy, late chief engineer at the Wellington electric light station, was entertained on the occasion of his retirement after 15 years’ service. The Mayor, .who presiiled, expressed regret that the City was losing the services of such a capable officer, and presented Mr. Roy, with a purse of sovereigns as a memento from the staffs, and with a gold pendant for Mrs. Roy. Mr. William Thomson, an old resident of Wellington, died last week, aged 81 years. He was a native of Scotland, and arrived in Australia in 1858, where the Ballarat goldfields attracted him. He ■subsequently went to Otago. When the gold rush was over, Mr. Thomson again followed his occupation as iron moulder in Sparrow’s foundry, Dunedin, and then became loreman of E. W. Mills’ foundary, then situated in Aurora terrace. Afterwards he worked in Mr. Sea ger’s foundry and in Mr. D. Robertson's iron works.

During the late session of Parliament, the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher- (Minister for Pensions) foreshadowed a co-ordination of the various Pensions Departments of the State. The first step in this direction is lieing taken at the present time. Mr, D. Robertson (Secretary of the Post Office) has resigned the position of Commissioner of Old Age Pensions, and Mr. H. C. Fache, for many years associated With the Pensions Department, has been appointed Commissioner. Mr. Fache has also l>een appointed Commissioner of ''' tensions and Commissioner of Military Pensions.

STEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD. LONDON, October IT. There passed away on October 7, Fanny Stokes Mieville, the only daughter of the late Dr. F. 11. Richardson, and the wife Of Frederick Louis Mieville, of 62 King Henry’s Road, aged 76. The funeral took place from Old Hampstead Parish Church on October 9. ■Mr J. W. Davis, of Gisborne, is travelling on the Continent, and leaves for home in December. Air. J. AT. Dent, of Wellington, is at present in 'London. Mr. B. Foster, of Christchurch, is at present staying in Forfarshire, and has so far made no plans about returning. Mr. and Mrs. J. Houston, of Wellington, left for New Zealand to-day. Mr. Frank Waldegrave, and his daughter, Mrs. Atkinson, both of Wellington, are in London on a pleasure trip, and are staying at Earl’s Court. Mr. Tattersall, of Napier, is in England, and will ‘be here till April of next year. There passed away on October - 5, at St. Leonards-on-Sea, suddenly, Emily Agnes Alexander, the only daughter Of the late Dr. E. W. Alexander and Mrs. Alexander, of Dunedin, Otago, ’New Zealand. A small section is to lie devoted to New Zealand exhibits at a Sports and Pastimes Exhibition, to be held in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in November and December. Eighty-five domestic servants left for New Zealand under the charge of two matrons (Nurses Aitken and Rhodes) by the Tonic this week. •Mr. Wm. Moore, of Kaiapoi, and Mr. H. 'Milliken, of Timaru, left for New Zealand on Thursday. 'Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Gabites, of Timaru, sail for home bv the Marmori in November. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Montgomery, of Little River, Canterbury, left by the Osterley to-day. The Earl and Countess of Liverpool and -Sir 'William Hall-,Tones were among the callers on the High Commissioner yesterday. Mri A. H. Miles, of Wellington, of Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., and the Misses Miles, who have been staying foi - some considerable time at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde Park, left to-day for home. Air. T. Chamberlin-Chamberlin, of New Zealand, has this week published, through 'Elkin Mathews, a book of poems entitled "Songs from the Forests of Tane.” Mr. and Mrs. ,T. A. Bowker, sen., of Christchurch, have booked their passages by the Orvieto, sailing on December 20. The very kindly and courteous reception given to our lady correspondent by the Countess of Liverpool, wife of the Governor-elect of New Zealand, may have been one more evidence of that fellow-feeling that makes us wondrous kind, for Lady Liverpool has confessed that before Tier marriage she often wrote for newspapers, and on no amateur footing, evidently, sinee she also confesses that she “ made quite a nice lot by it.” It is understood that the marriage recently arranged between Captain A>. 11. A. Empson and Miss Gore Browne, daughter of the Rev. T. Gore Browne, rector of Favvley, Southampton, will piobably take place in August next at Fawley, on Captain Empson’s return from India, whither he is sailing shortly. A marriage has been arranged between Miss Ina Winifred Gow, daughter of Airs. Gow, of Wellington, and Air < liarles Hooke Stephens, only son of the late Very Rev. W. Wood Stephens, Dean of Winchester. The marriage will, ft is understood, take place at Wellington in January next. Lord and Lady Liverpool sail for New Zealand by the Malwa on November Ist. Mr. and Mrs. Percy O. Gwilliam (nee Miss Afuriel Knight, of Auckland) have taken up their residence at “Pendeiwis,” Charlton Park, Keynsham, Bristol. Mr. E. A. Belcher, who has bcci* appointed headmaster of I hrist I is leaving London at the end of the month, and will join the Drama, of the Orient line, at Naples, on route for New Zealand. Mr. Belcher, who wits an exhibitioner at his school —Queen’s College, Taun-

ton—went thence to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in modern history in 1897. On the athletic side Air. Belcher has a fondness for most forms of outdoor recreation, particularly cricket and football. He has also had some experience of colonial life, for he spent six years in South Africa. The High C ommissioner and Mrs. Mackenzie gave a reception to the Earl and Countess of Liverpool at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Wednesday, October 30th.

The High Commissioner is to-day the guest of Air. Cathcart Wason, ALP., at the House of Commons for the Home Rule debate. To-morrow is to be spent with Air. W. D. Lysnar, ex-mayor of Gisborne, visiting the London docks, and on Tuesday Air. Mackenzie attends a meeting of the British Empire Trades Marks Association, when he will second the main resolution. Air. Harry- Boulton, of Auckland, is cycling in Cumberland. December is to be spent with friends in Paris, and he returns to Auckland in January, via the States.

A wedding of New Zealand interest took place on October 7th, at St. John’s Church, Holland Road, Kensington, W., by the Rev. T. W. Carthrey, when Charles Lionel Eyres, Assistant Traffic Superintendent R.M. Railway, Ajmere, India, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Eyres, of Winchester, Hampshire, and Bombay, was married to Ethel Vera, eldest daughter of Mr. and Airs. Ernest ■French, of Auckland, New Zealand, and grand-daughter of the late Captain Ellis, Colonial Government Service.

The marriage will take place in November of Miss Isabel Alary, the elder daughter of the late Dr. Honeyman, of Auckland, and of Airs. Bruce Porter, of Grosvenor Street, to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Arthur Johnson, of the LM-S.