PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vioe-Begal.

The Government steamer Tutanekai left Wellington for Lyttelton yesterday to convey His Excellency the Governor and staff from the south.

Mr. M. Cablo, Assistant Tramways Manager, and Mr. H. Leah, superintendent of rolling-stock to the Wellington City Corporation, are on an official visit to Auckland. In that city the Tramway Company have a very efficient repairs shed, and as it is intond'ed to provide a similar convenience in Wellington, the officers mentioned will urobably gain much valuable information.

The Rev. Thomas Tait, M.A., B.D. (lately of St. Paul's, Christchurch) is returning to Adelaide, via Sydney, by the Mokoia, after a brief holiday here. He conducted a service in his old church, and was greeted bv a congregation that packed the builcling to overflowing.

Mr. John Jackson Calvert, whose death was briefly recorded on Saturday, was _ clerk of the New South_ Wales Parliament for many years, having been appointed to the position in 1871. He was a son of the late Very Rev. Thomas Calvert, D.D., formerly Dean of Manchester and Norrisian Professor of Divinity, Cambridge. On his mother's side he was a grandson of Juliana Copley, . sister of the Marchioness of Abercoru and Lady Manners. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1853 he came to Australia, and in the same year entered the office of the Colonial Secretary. He held in turn the_ positions of Clerk of Select Committees in the Legislative Assembly: First Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, and Clerk-assistant. The Imperial Service Order was conferred on him in. 1904. The late Mr. Calvert will also be remembered for his connection with sport, for he was for 32 years president of the New South Wales Rugby Union. He was for some time on the "council of the first Royal Agricultural Society of the State. Mr. Joseph Mandel is recovering from a rather severe attack of neuritis, which has detained him in a private hospital for some weeks past. Th& death is announced of Mt. John Clifford, an old resident of Greymouth.