PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman arrived in .Wellington from Palmerston North on Saturday night, and left for Blenheim yesterday to preside at the Supreme Court sittings in. that centre.

Colonel Robin, Commandant of the Forces, left for New Plymouth yesterday.

Mr. M. Myers intends to leave Auckland for Canada by the Niagara on March 23. Ho returns to Wellington on Juno 27.

Major Colvin, of the Salvation Army Headquarters, will visit Carterton tomorrow 5 .

Mr. Gladstone Ward leaves by the Ruahino for London shortly to offer his services to tho Army authorities,

. I'he members of the Plimmcr-Hall Patriotic Company, will arrive from Sydney by the Ulimaroa to-day. The company will rehearse here, and commence its tour'of New Zealand at tho Grand Opera HouEe on . Saturday week (March 20).

Mr. Daniel Wadsworth, whose death is reported from Waitati, was one of tho pioneers of Otago. He was born at Earlam, near Manchester (England), iu 1836. Immediately after his marriage (says the "Otago Daily Times") he left Liverpool with his wife in the ship Herald of the Morning, and arrived in Melbourne in November, 1559, after a passage of 75 days. After two years he left Australia in the ship Arabia, and, after a. passage of three weeks, arrived at Port Chalmers in August, 1861. He participated in the Gabriel's Gully rush, staying 12 months. On coming to Dunedin he was employed as foreman of works by the Provincial Government, and laid out Bond, Water, and Jetty Streets. Later on, with Mr. M. King, of Mornington, be took tie Pitt Street contract, but, as the weather was adverse to the work, they completed the contract at a loss. In 1882 he took up farming at Mount Cargill, where he lived until four years ago, since when he had been living privately at Waitati. Deceased was & life member of the Gabriel's Gully Pioneer Association. He is survived by his widow and a family of six sons and four daughters.