PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2116, 6 April 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vicr.-llcGAt,. Ciiptni» I'oijaiirbe, a brother of His Excellency tho Earl of Liverpool, is Coming t-.i New Zealand by tin* iMoeiaki, which left Sydney for Wellington on Association. This Hon. W. H. llerrics left for Auckland 011 Saturday, and was followed te evening by the Hon. I>, M. U, I'lsltoii JtJio Hon, li. 11. Rhodes is at l)unedin. lip leaver for ChristfibuK'h OT tho (1 s„ cpi ess la claj Tuc Hon. Jttnies Allen ivfll asriv'is to-day i'rcini Auckland. iiie Hon. A. L. HerdmaU. returned from Christclitirdi. yesterday, aim n'tU pro.tialiiy Jeavo to-day for Witliganui. Tim other Cabinet Ministers are 111 Wellington. 'Ilio Hon. A, L. Hcrcininn (Minister of Justice) arrived from t : iio south by the Maitai jvatcrdny. }T-r, llenry Otu-rson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, who retires at the oiid of Juno next,, will be .Succeeded i'ji .that otlieo, it is•0 tUi • A. i'\ l.nsvc, at present eierkabiistant. Mr. Lowo was promoted to the position lio now holds last year, on tin- retirement of Mr. A. J. Hutherford. The funeral of the luto Mrs. .Folk Cohen, which vqofc placo yesterday alter-I'-ooii. was very largely attended. Among those present 1 witfo; lijo Mayor (Mr. j. P. Luke), tho City Engineer' (Mr. W, H Mo. ton), tho To\w. Cloik (Mi J It. Palmor;., several othor offimals, tho 111ajorily of tho members of tho City Gomiieil, and roverai cswxmucillors, who lmd ' been associated with Mr. Cohen when ho vyd'S a member of the council. Tho ■service- at tho graveside- nt Karon was conducted bj tho Itev. 11. Van SUiveien. Dr. I'. Stanley foster, -late houso surgeon of tho -Wellington. and Christ-. diureh Hospitals, has returned' to New Zealand, after two years.' post graduate study iii England, and is commencing piae.ticc in Christehurch. Professor R. J. Scott, of Christ-. church, arrived; hero front Lyttcltou yesterday iiy tho Waliino. Mr. Jackson Palmer, Chief Judge of tlm Native Land Court, is' lying scrlon sly ill in an Auckland hospital. }lr. I'. llally, Conciliation Commiv sioner, is expected to return to Wellington to-day from tho south. Ho is to preside- at tho hearing of ilio tramways dispute.

Soon after Easter, Sir. John Fuller, jnn,. a membr,r 01" tho City Council, and or the. iinu of John Fuller and Soils, will leave Wellington on an estendal holiday. His trip will include a visit t > Australia and to tho &nitli Sea Islands.

.. Mr. 600. AMport, Secretary of the Marino Department, is paying a visit to Christeinuch.

Mr. J, W, Macdonald.. solicitor to the rublic Trust Office, is on a visit to the smith.

Mr. Frederick Teniplo Clere. of Wellington, was admitted hy ilie Chief JusHc(! on Saturday itio.rm.ng as a barrister and solicitor. _ Mr, P. H. Putnam moved tho admission. Miss Maud Allan, the famous dancer, f'.s. '•' ,O Chonaavsky trio of musicians, ■ Sydney lor Wellington oit Saturday, They will arrive here oil Wednesday. Miss Doiothv IJrunton, of the Xcw Comic Opua Coirpany, has been tal-eu seriously ill m Perth. I'lie Dargavilie correspondent of tho Auckland "Herald" stales that in addition to Mr. Gordon Coat.cs, why now represents the. Kaiparji electorate, ami. Mr. 11. Hop, who is the nomiiico. of tho Opposition party for the seat, two more 'ou'jtd'idatcs tt'r.o.ifi tlio, field, iii tho p"rsor.s of Mr. A. E. Harding and Mr. E T. Field, both of whom mo pro uovip-.>d iiupportcrs of the Massry Ad--fTjinistratiou. Mr. Harding, who pie. viously represer.ted Kaipara, leaves this month for England, but will returii in October. Mi, Fio!d was an unsuccessfid candidate at the last election. Sn far, ouly Mr. Coatts and Mr. Hoe liavo placed tiieir views before the eleetors, and little real eleetioiieerinn; work is likely to take place before June. By the death of Mr. Alfred Palmer, of Avvhitu Central, which occurred rc. centlv, New Zealand (says the Auo!;.Innd "Herald'') lias lost another of hep j pjoiieer The .doceasijd, wlio was in Jus 86th year at tho time pf jus death, was Ijoruiu England in 1828. Ho panio to tho Doiniiiion in tho Mermaid in 1>59, takina up some land at Awhitn. He was called away for somo years, owi.ng to tlio Maori wars, but subseriuently returned with his wife tun! family, -Hewas visited several times hy Bishop Sclwyn, who asked him to becomo ii lay reader for the district, which position ■tlio deceased held until 14 years ago. In this, capacity ho read the Inst ritea ever tho bodies of a number of tho sailors drmvtied in the wreck of 11.M.5. Orpheus. 'Hie deceased was a second eoiisin. of Mr. 6eoir?e. Palmer, of Huntly and I'almof. biscijii nicnufacturers. Ho i.'.T t vos a widow and two married daughters.

Sealed almost. together at. an ifctterJ2oo.ii tea fmtc.tioii on the iS'cw Ply- : mouth beach ono day lost- week were fivepioneers, whoso combined ages amounted to 437 years, an average of over rights? mi y«ais>. Tboy were ail hair: and I'earty. n splendid advertisement for- the healthiness of the Tarauaki eiiittate (states tlio.''ia.raiiaiii 'Sews'''')., mid looking able lo weather many u, yfcar yet. Tlio pilrfcy comprised Mrs/'W. Woods, \vlw cam.o out as a. girl on tho first vessel, tho William Bryant, and is. aged F1; Mrs. Elizabeth l'eiijx»rcli. 02; Mr. Ilenrv Putt, 80; Mr. David Sole, 92; and Mr, William, lhindle, 81, ■ The privations and sufferings endured by tho party of British officers who have iust completed, niter three years' labour jii a vast unexplored region of South America) the delimitation of tho irontier between Bolivia- and Brazil, are it reniii.idiu that tho greater part of the globe still awaits luicura.to mapping (says tho "'Westminster Gazette"}. Fertv officers and men of tlio French Service Gc-ogrnphique d.c> l'Annee res cently spent*five yea's m suirey noilt in Peru, and inanv succumbed among the desolate Cordillera, owing to. the | tcr.i'ihlo hardships to which they wero j Mibjccted. For som.o years Canadian surveyors have been heroically carrying tlio- fpoadipr bet,ween Canada aii'd Alrtska northward to ibe Arctic, and several Indian survey officers have lost their lives while engaged in triaiigulatini; ultknown Asia near the Indian border.