PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2353, 8 January 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICJE-Eegaii. TTi'h Excellency he Earl of Liverpool arrived in Wellington yesterday morning by,the Maori, presided at a meeting of the Executive ;. in tie morning, .visited Treutkam camp in oompany pith the Minister, of Defence (the Hon. ■j. Allen) in the afternoon,, and left for jOhristchnrch again in the evening. , His Excelloncy .tho Governor (Lord Liverpool) and .the Minister of Defence {the Hen. J: Allen), visited Trentham ' isamp yesterday. ; - Mi. J. G. Harkness,. eeoretaiy of .ithe .National Dairy Association, and a (member of the Wellington Harbour ■Board, left by the Marama, last evening on a business trip, to the linited States and Canada, The Right Hon. 'Andrew Fisher, (Prime Minister of the Commonwealth iof Australia, will arrive in Wellington this evening. He will be received at the Town Hall shortly after hi o .by the Labour organisations of Wellington, who have arranged a suitable •.weloome to" tfie foremost Labour F^ - tician in' Australia. The Hon. D. •B. Hall, the New South Wales AttoraoyGeneral, will ho present at the funot:on. It is understood that the' Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. A. fisher, 'will visit the Trentham military camp during Us visit to Wellington. : Mr. Robert Parker, organist of St. 'Paul's Pro-Cathedra], baa left for the south on a three weeks' holiday. . Dr. Barclay, Vho m to succeed Dr. Hardwiok Smith as Suwnntendent of tho Wellington Hospital 13 on a visit to Sydney. .He wil| take up his' neif duties about the middle of next month-. •. , At a meeting of the fouthl^d 1 Hosjpital and Oumtable Aid Board jesterSay, Dr. Stanley E. Brown was appovat- , ; ed, subject to the Minister's .approval, 'to. the position of medical 3 upennten:dent at the Southland Hospital, a uosjition rendered Tacant-througn i clay's removal ?o W>ngS.nv There ■ were nine applicajits for the.pMitKm. Dr. Brown'has been acting m.-a temporary position sinoe Dr. Barclay left, W prior to going to InvercargUl was in dwrge of the Wanganm Hospital for B short period.—Press Association. A large number of people visited the "King's Wharf last evemng'to bid goodbve to Mr. C. E. Adams, Government iAstromoner, and Mrs. Adams, who Mt for Sah Francisco by the . Manna, en route to tho Lick . Observatory, _wbere they; go vinto residence . for twelve , toonths. • Mr. D. A. 'Aiken, general.manager of the ijnion. Steam '.''Ship. Company, is yiaiting Wellington... . ■ > Another of-tho band of Otago's pionfeef women, Mra.; .Matthew Marshall, 'died at her residence, Nortii BaJclutha, ■early on Sunday morning, at the age of 77 irears (says an: es<|ange). . w wis born in Edinburgh in 1837, and came to" New Zealand in the snip Lartkins in 1849, settling with mofter ■ and' brothers in Dunlin. - •ehaU married m Dunedin in 1857. ■ I\ve 'days after the - marriage she and . her husband set out for their home, a 10•acre section at Aberturf, f ter residing , there for some time went to Hillend, where they- farmed f0r.40 years, afterwards .going to Balclutha. The deceased lady could tell good ! tale of the /tnbuktions of the early pioneers. : : Mr. ■ Marshall predeceased his wife by about. two _years. ? nd & half. The late Mrs. Marshall leaves •a grown-up family of four dauditers and.two sons. They are:_ Mrs. Hugh Miss (Matthew Marshall (Masterton). .• Mr : F G. Laurie, Australian, representative of the live stock and meat 'division of the New Zealand Depart ■ment of Agriculture arrived in Auckland ib\r the Riverina. from Sydney on Tves'day . Mr. Laurie is on brief holiday leave, and will , visit the Departmental ■authorities at. Wellington before ireturning to Australia. , J Captain Charles- H. R. Watts,' a New Zealander, who 3 it was on Thursday,: had, been killed m action, Tvas an- old Nelson College boy. , 0 left; the oollege to, join the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, but returned to the former institution in •1902 to pursue his military studies. In : 1905 he gained' by examination a' com- : mission, in the Imperial joining the second battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. At Nelson College. Captain Watts had a distinguished career, being head of; the school in 1905, and a; prominent member of both the cricket and football teams for several. years.