PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1925, 6 December 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. John Roberts, C.M.G., cjkl & director of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived hero by tho Aorangi from Sydney yesterday. Among tho passengers who went south by the Wahino last evening was the Hon. ID. C. J. Stevens, M.L.C. Dr. J. It. Purely, who-has just been elected to a vacancy on tho Hsitt Borough Council., has announced his intention of being a candidate for tho Hutt Mayoralty in April next, . Madame Evc-lyn Selig and Messrs. Paul Uufault, and Andrew tilnek, who are to sing in the Royal Choral Society's performance of "The Messiah," are to Scare Sydney for Wellington to-day by the Maungauui.

Another of Wellington's oid identities, in tlio person of Mrs. Marshall, rclicb of the late Mr. It. A. Marshall, died last evening, at tlio residence of h«r son-in-lnw, Mr. S. J. Maguire, Firio Street, the late Mr. Marshall died suddenly in April last, and sineo that lime Mrs. Marshall has been practically confined to lwr bed. The deceased lady eon Id claim to he one of AVeiiingtoirs oldest residents, arriving licro with her parents in the ship London, in IS4O, landing at I'etone Beach. She was then but a child, and with the «.\ccption of a trip to Kiigiand and. another to Australia lias spent tlio whole of her life in tho Dominion.- Sho has wa-tclicd Wellington grow from a, treo-covored site to a city, and had quite a fund of early-day ■ reminiscences. Mrs. Marshal) had nine children, and is survived by six of them—-Messrs. A, A. Marshall, P. J. Marshall, It. Mnrsirall, P. L. Marshall, Mrs. S. J. Maguire and Mrs. P. \Y. Millar. The deceased lady was 75 years of age. A requiem mass will bo held at Ilticklo Street Chinch uu Monday morning at 7 o'clock, und tlio funeral will'lcano tho church at 9 o'clock. Captsin C. P., Hood has been appointed to represent the Norwegian. Veritas in Auckland. This is equivalent to the British Lloyd's. Mr. D. C. Bates. Government mttcor< o:c;in, trho itas tea ratier Mrwusiy iii wish p:cEia.tp<? peiwatsr. iw s«a ordered by nis a.;<::cT ec t.:c for B ii'w diyi. The Her;. G. .5. JLLC, south by the Wailse Mr. C, X. L-: %•»•?. ciio *■:! fruitortfr. of Masne-s S:!wi (ttvarl* holiday last afew a trki jffcew. Ho leaves a wiiow ac<t tfenw du'irej;. of Tawa Flat. ws» teas Sv<n confined to his K-.1 seriously ;!l ivr t'ae pas: tliroo momUs, is row reported to have taken n turn lor tbe bo-tor sud is slowly n> '.•ovoriiiir. Mr. tnvrhS 3lvr&3e£go. who has oo cujwd ifc* y>;«i«v ii c»sa;«r <>C Haywain's rict««v» h for the pas; 1"> t,« ttwiiwi word of his IWIIWW to of tlio Vkdw f.liaaw- Christ-oHu-vH ari 'K ;l i to «ako "k\» i'.is iw«- ..M-m v® Monday next. \l r i I Mini (.at teawra KW'pretor iV" :w I.wwimwsv w.i 1:1 die 0\ \ i v \ 1 ) tli 11 i 1 11\ \ J N 1 1 u it V tv tor-day. Mr. Vlii'miitrtil ami Mrs. UivmiUw), and the Misses HaiiiiU-oii li>, oi' Watniato, returned to Wellington by tlio Aoraugi from Sydney yesterday. Mr. C. M. Cox, managing-editor of the New Zealand Mercantile. Gazette, returned to Wohlrngftm yesterday by tho Aonuigi, after a sis weeks' vis.it to New South Wales.

Mr. Hukli Fraser, for some time of Christchureh, and lnt-cr sub-oilitm- on llio stair <tf the "Daily l.oiulan, ' Itns been «)>.jK>interl rhiof reporter onfto "Times of India," Bombay, on a threo .vcars' cn«afi;croMit. Mr. V(. H Bilker, of tho Wellington Young Sloii's Christian Association,- is in Cliristchureh working at tie, (.'onion IlaJl in conjunction with 3-1 r. W. H. Jiaboflek. From ttj; bcginnws of 11-10 year Mr. Baker will take Mr, llalionek's place for three months anlil 31 r. P. 31. Yclvin, the. now director of the Hoys' oordon Halt, arrives to take up his work. 3!r. K (I. Sahlin, Trade tioiioj" lor Sweden, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by the Maheiio ail Wednesday.