PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. A. L. Herdman left Weilinnton for Hawta's Bay yesterday Diornin^. • The Hon. F. M D. Fisher (Minister of Marine) left for Auckland laet night. Visiting members of Parliament in town yesterday were: Messrs. D. H. Guthrie (Oroua), V. H. Reed (Bay of Islands), and 11. Scott (Otago .Central). Mr. A. A. Paape, organiser for the Reform Party, who contested the West land seat at the elections, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning. Dr. W. Kingtou lTyffo, of Wellington, the well-known medical man, and organist at St. Peter's Church, is going away on active 6orvico with the Second Reinforcements now assembling at Trenthani. Eoth as a surgeon of great skill and a gentleman of sooial quali;ies, Dr. Fyffe will bo missed in Wellington. Captain D. J. Williams, who haie been in the employ of the Union' Company for 37 years, will retire from the managership-of tho Newcastle Branch on December 31; Mr. G. H. Morgan lato manager at New. Plymouth and Suva, will nil the vacanoy at Newcastle. Mr. W. H. Prioe, manager for the -Union Company at InvercargiU, lias been appointed to open up the newbranch of tho Union Company at Timaru on January I. Mr. W. V. Craske, lato sub-manager at Lyttelton, has been appointed manager for the Uuion Company at InvercargiU. Mr. G. F. Wileon, late sub-manager at the Bluff, has been promoted to be manager for the Union Company at Lyttelton. , . . Mr. H. C. W. Blick, on. leaving the Dresden Piano Co., Ltd., to join the staff of Messrs. Bannatyne and' Co.i Ltd., was presented by the Dresden employees with a set of pipes. Among the visitors to Wellington ot the present time is Mr. Charles Stoddart, tho well-known English sportsman, who comes to Now Zealand nearly, every year to enjoy trout fishing. Mr. T. J. Callaghan, licensee of the Occidental Hotel, Palmereton .North, died at a private hospital in. that town on Monday from pneumonia. He was 41 years of age. At last night's meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board, refereuco was made to the recent death at Wauganui ' of Mr. F. A. Krull, who was one of the original members of the board, having represented the joint Wairarapa' County Councils from February, 1880, to February, 1881. A resolution was carried expressing sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Krull. Mr. *J. H. Thorp, who has been the Government Orohard Lispector for the Nelson district for the past two' and a ' half years, has resigned from the Gov- '. eminent service, having accepted the ' position of supervisor to the Kaipara (Auckland) Fruit Lands., Development Association. Ho takes up his new duties early in the New Year. 'Mr. G. Stratford, who has been instructor for Manawatu and Wairarapa, succeeds Mr. ) Thorp at Nelson.. / •• The Rov. 0. G. Mutter, who is relin-! quishing his locum tenens duties as vicar of St. Michael'B Church, Oxford

Terrace, Christchurch, was the recipi- ' ent of a liand6ome gold watch and a ' substantial chequo from the parishion- i ers this week. Mr. Mutter hae for?' about twelve months' taken the place of the vicar. Canon. H.'.D. Bilrton, who', has been Homo on a visit. Mr. Mutter ' "will take up the duties of diocesau misedoneri • i Mr. J. Trevor, who had been absent for some time from the. Wellingt-piu - Harbour Board meetings owing to ill— health,- was welcomed back at last night's meeting bv the chairman (Mr.. "K, Flotoher, M.P;). v Lieutonant-Colonel 0. M. Gibbon, )•■ chief of the General Staff, left hy the' Main Trunk express for Auokland yes- : terday afternoon. He will inspect tho • Maori camp in company with the Min- 1 ister of Defence to-morrow, and will; return to Wellington on Friday after- : noon. ' ■'..■ ■"'■■'. An old and highly respeotod resident" of Wellington in the person of Mr. John Gallagher died at his residence, "Tullassa," Hopper Street, yesterdayevening. Mr. Gallagher had been an invalid for the past two years. He took a sudden turn for tho worse on Tues-\ day afternoon and died peacefully at a I quarter to seven yesterday evening. > Mr. Gallagher Was born at Letterkenny, County' Donegal, and in IB6o* came out to this country in the sailing ship Wild Duck, and settled in WeM liugton. Hβ joined the Defence Forces 1 aud took an active part in the Maori} War. After the war /Mr. Gallagher, joined the Terrace Gaol as warder, serV-i ing under the late Mr. Mackay Reid.) After many years'. service there he retired, and has since liyed with his wife and family at his residence in Hopper Street. Tho late Mr. Gallagher was a fine type of the early pioneer of the l colony, while' his military bearing stamped , him as a soldier. Hβ was an ■; authority on Irish affairs, and a very, deep reader of Irish literature. He leaves a widow, two sons (Messrs. John Joseph and Bernard Gallagher,/farmers in Dannevirko), and three daughters (Mrs. E. J- Fitzgibbon, wife'of MB. J. Fitzgibbon, barrister and solicitor of-this" city, and Misses Kathleen «nd Margaret Gallagher), The deceased gentleman's sister,, Mrs. M. Segriet, of Daniel Street, is the only surviving member of the old family. > . ; - The doath occurred fit Christchurcli on Monday evening of Mr Sichac Nolan, a well-known Tesident of tnac city He was 86 years of age. and was born at Rnthkcale, County Limenck, Ireland. Ho came out to Meto fi "f' then removed to Auckland, and finally to Christchureh, where he conducted a business' as a tailor and mercor. A Press Association telegram from' Timaru state* that Mr. William, Gunn, . surgeon dentist, aged 65, an old resident, and _ weU known as proprietor of the Theatre Royal and fn connection with the tol B ««W and Caledonian Society, is dead. Ho had been ailing for some time. ■; Visitors staying at the Albert Hotel' ; are: Mr. T. W. ftxMam, of New Plymouth; Mr. F. K. Lomas and Mr. G..-' ; Sim-, of. Christ-church; and Mr M. J. «• . , Kennedy, of Palmerston North. ' ■ !