PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), who has teen presiding at the Supreme Court sittings in Nelson and Blenheim, is duo bacls in Wellington to-day. His Honour Mr. Justice Hoßking has returned to Wellington from the north 1

Mr. James Mackenzie, Under-Secre-tary of Lauds, who has been south cn work connected with his Department in Dunedin and Ghristchurch, returned to Wellington by the Mokoia yesterday morning.

• Cable advice has been received in Christchurch from Torquay. England, says a Press Association telegram,' of the death of Mr. Frederick Waymouth, for many years managing director or the Canterbury , Frozen Meat Company.

Five officors and 16 men of the New Zealand Garrison at Samoa returned to Wellington by the Main Trunk express from Auckland yesterday morning. The names of tho officers are: —Major, W. R. Pinwill, of the Headquarters Staff ; Captain T. R. Eastwood, A D.C. to the Commanded; Captain R. W. Wilkinson, 6th (Wellington) Regiment; Captain R. L. Evatt,' 6th (Wellington) Regiment; and Second Lieutenant 0. N. Mitchell, D Battery. The officers and men were invalided to Nfew Zealand 1 mainly on account'of'the climate.

Mr. Geo. Bailer, advance Representative for the Willoughby Dramatio Company, wbioh is to commence a New Zealand tour at Christmas; arrived from Sydney by the Manuka' yesterday. - Captain J. E. Duigan, a member of the New Zealand Staff-Corps (Engineer Services), has graduated at the Staff College at Quetta (British Baluchistan).

Godowski, the Russian composer and pianist, is said to bo a prisoner of- war m London. It may iseem strange for a Russian to bo held up in England, but it appears • that he was _ indisoreet enough to become an Austrian citizen when he was hoad of a musical school in Vienna some years ago.

Commissioner Henry C. Hodder, who succeeds Commissioner Richards in charge of tlio Salvation Army in Notv' Zealand, arrived from Japan, via Australia, oy the Manika yesterday. He is accompanied by Mrs. and the four Misses Hodder.

The death ocourred on .Saturday at Auckland .of Mr. George Crosby, a Now Zealand pioneer who: came out from Ireland by the ship Waitangi in- the year 1874. Mr. Crosby, who was only 18 years of age at tin time, Bottled in the Tauranga district, and experienced there the hardships of tho early days. Ho commenced business as a carting contractor in the Bay of Plenty district, eventually establishing a livery and bait stables at Rotorua, as well as taking over tho Rotorua Hotel. Mr Cros : by; who' was a member of tho Oliinemuri County Council for nine yetirß, and saw service on other public bodies, recently took up his residence at Devonport. and purchased a wholesale win© ( Qiid spirit business. .11 o loaves a widow, three sons, and four daughters. .Visitors staying at tlio Albert Hotel are: Mr. Chas. Bartholomew and Mr. Hall, "of Sydney'; Mr. A. Miller, of Dunedin; and Mr. E: Desborough, of Auckland.