PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1537, 5 September 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Grace Archbishop E«dwood arrived back from a trip to Tonga and Australia by the TJlimaroa yesterday,

Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, leaves for Napier to-day to attend the meeting of tho Hawke's Bay Employers' Association to be held there to-morrow. On Saturday he will leave for Wanganui to attend the sitting of the Arbitration Court there. He is due back in Wellington on September 11.

A Washington cable messago ,to the Press Association states that Mr. Arthur T. Firth, of Auckland, is the only registered New Zealand delegate to tho eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, which opened in Washington yesterday.

Messrs. A. A. Corrigan and R. E. Eawnsley, of Wellington, are returning passengers from England by the Athenic, due hero on Monday nest.

Tho Toronto "Globo" announces the death, at the ago of thirty-one, of Mr. Ernest Riddell Paterson, 8.A., first Rhodes scholar from the University of Toronto, son of Mr. John A. Paterson, K.C., of Wichwood Park, Toronto (bro-ther-in-law of tho late Mr. R. H. Riddell, of Napier, Hawke's Bay). Ho graduated in 1902, with first-class honours in classics and history, nnd was elected Rhodes scholar in 1901, graduating from Oxford in 1907. While at Oxford he was captain of the tennis team, and rowed for his college (Balliol). In Canada, ho was a distinguished athlete, and was at ono timo tennis champion of Canada.

A very old identity, in. the person of Mr. J. W. Matthews, late manager of tho Bank of New Zealand, Gisborne, second son of the late Doctor Matthews, and brother of Mr. C. E. Matthews, solicitor, passed away at his residence, Sarsfield Street, Auckland, on Tuesday. Tho dccsased gentleman came to, Auckland with his parents in the year 1843. being then three years of age. Educated at tho Church of England Graminer School, Mr. Matthews entered the service of the Oriental _ Banking Corporation, where ho remained until tho inception of tho Bank of New Zealand, into whoso service ho exchanged, and held the position of accountant and then manager at Rivcrton, Milton, and, finally, Gisborne. At tho last-mentioned place ho held the joint positions of manager and agent for tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for: over fifteen years, until finally compelled through ill-health to retiro on his pension. Mr. Matthews leaves a widow, five sons, and two daughters to mourn their loss.

News has been received in Christchurch of tho death in England of Mr. J. G. Keulemans, the ornithological artist who painted the pictures for Sir Walter Butler's '-'Birds of New Zealand." Keulemans was born at Rotterdam sixty-nino years ago, but lived for many years in London. Manypictures of birds painted by him appear in the "Transactions" of the Zoological Society. / Some of the best judges consider that 1 his finest work was (says the "Lyttelton Times") done in 1874, about fourteen years before ho began to paint New Zealand birds. Ho possessed remarkable icnergy and capacity for work, and he seemed to have an intuitive knowledge of the natural poso of a bird whose skin was in his hands. In later year his pencil lost some of its cunning, and he ultimately became, to someextent, colour blind.