PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1158, 20 June 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His F.xcelleney the Governor is to leave for l'nliuerston North by the 'J.lO train this morning. The ltou. T. Mackenzie goes to Palmerston to-day to attend tho Winter Show, The Minister will leave for C'hristcluireh on Wednesday night to represent the Government at the Coronation festivities. Tho Hon. G. Fowlds leaves for Auckland to-day. Mr. Justice Sim, who has been presiding at the Supreme Court sessions at Wangaliui, will return to Wellington to-day. Sir. Joseph Hammond, the well-known aviator, who arrived from Sydney on Wednesday last, and has been paying a visit lo liis relatives in the Jlangitikei district, was taken into I'almorston.North by motor oil Sunday, suffering from appendicitis. He was at once operated upon by Drs. Willis (Fcilding) and Martin (I'almerston North), and is still in a serious condition. Mr. Hammond learned to fly under the able tutorship of Henri Farnian and Leo. Delagrango, in France, whore ho quickly qualified for a pilot's certificate. He has flown 200 miles without a stop in France, and has soared as high as 10,000 ft. He is a most careful aeronaut, and thoiigh ho has mado hundreds of flights, has never yet met with a-serious accident. His wife is with him at I'almerston North.

Tho interment of the late Mr. Joseph Earlo took place at the Bolton Street cemetery at 11 a.m. yesterday. The funeral was largely attended by old friends of the deceased, representative citizens, and a number of journalists from tho stall's of tho local papers. Among tho wreaths were tributes from the literary and commercial staffs of Tub Dominion, tho literary staff of the "Evening Post," and the Institute of Journalists. . The deceased's sons, Messrs. Charles, Joseph, Fred, and Harold Earlc; wore the chief mourners. Impressive services at the chapel an. 1 , at the graveside were conducted by the Ilev. H. Williams.

Mr. Leo Myers, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, arrived by the Main Trunk express yesterday, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. William Wallis, of Nairn Street, a settler, who arrived in New Zealand in 1857, died at his residence yesterday morning in his eighty-first year. A builder by trade, Mr. Wallis, before coming to New Zealand, went to the Crimea on behalf of an English firm to erect hospitals and barracks ioi; the troops, lie erected one of tlio first sawmills in the JJutt Valley, and is said to have erected the first bridge across tho Hntt River. He was at one time a director of tho Wellington Opera House, and was probably the oldest member of tho Oddfellows in Wellington. Deceased left liino children, viz., Messrs. Fred., Arthur, and Frank Wallis; Mrs. A. F. S. Lorie, of Waikato; Mcsdaines D. L. Turner. 11. do V. Gilbert, Arthur Hamsny, and Robert ltamsay, of Wellington. There are 33 grandchildren. Tho interment will take place in tho Bolton Street cemetery at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Mr. Yung Liang Hwang, the newly appointed Chinese Consul-General for Australia, was heartily welcomed to Melbourne at the annual gathering of the Chinese Christian Union recently. "His address in reply to the speeches of welcome" (says a Melbourne paper) "reveals him to be a man of practical sense, of intelligent sympathy, of wide outlook, and of Christian conviction. The Chinese amongst us have every reason to bo proud of their oflicial representative, and the community in general has occasion to bo glad that the occupant of that position is a gentleman of Mr. Hwang's typo and ideals."

Mr. Cimino, manager for Clias. Begg and Co., Ltd., let 1 - for Auckland yesterday on a business trip, and will be away about three weeks. Ho was accompanied by Mrs. Cimino. Mr. Percy Waddy died last week at his late residence, "Lippington," Lang Road, Centennial Park, Sydney. Ho was tho second surviving son of the late General Sir Richard Waddy, who was well known in Sydney in Ihf early sixties as colonel of the fiOth (Queen's Own) Reiriment. Tho Into Mr) IWmWj'l wdf'ibaniiin Liverpool, N.S.W., in ISIG, and was educated at Tlio King's School, Parramatla. He joined (ho service of the Commercial Banking Co., of Sydney, at the age of 17, and six years Inter opened a branch of the bank at Singleton. Ho held the position of manager there until 1879. After managing the Orange branch for a further period of two years, lie was appointed manager of the Maitland branch, a position lio continued to hold for a term of twenty-seven and a half years. Ho resigned from the service in March last on account of ill-health. Keenly interested in all manly sports, in his earlier days ho was a well-known cricketer, ne was one of tho pioneers of the coalfields now known as the South Maitland coalfields, and did much to bring the fields into, tho prominence they now hold; He leaves a widow, two sons, Messrs. P. It. Waddy, of Wellington, Now Zealand, and S. S. Waddy, manager of the Commercial Bank nt Cessnock—and four daughters. Mr. R. A. Waddy, manager of the Commercial Bank, Morpeth, father of tho wellknown cricketers, was the elder brother of the deceased gentleman,