PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W.. Fraser leaves' by the south boat to-night on his way to • Otago and Southland.. He will ■prob- - ably Ibe absent from .Wellington for about a week.

The Hon.J,._A. ; , Millar, who has recently been seriously indisposed, is now much: improved : in health, and has .reached a stage of convalescence.

Mr. P. HaDy, Conciliation Commissioner, leaves to-night for Greymouth. His business on the West Coast is the investigation of the coalminers' dispute.':: -.- ,'' • >■ ■ .

Mr. T. J. Parker, manager for the Huddart" Parker Co, at Dunedin, has •been transferred to Melbourne.- Mr. 'A. Cerutty, of the company's Wellington office, will replace Mr. Parker at Dunedin as acting-manager, , and Mr. Kosoda, of the Dunedin office, will fill ,tho l vacancy on the Wellington staff.

The dead body of Mr. Henry Alfred Pearco, . aged 33, who ;left Dawson's GFalls' on Thursday to climb Mount Eganont, was found yesterday on the moun,' itain, and wasj taken to Stratford. J)ecoased,. who was, unmarried, has relatives at Ngalo. 1

By the last English mail Mr. T. Lindsay Buick received offioial • intimation that he had been elected a Fellow of the (Royal Historical Society, London. This lionour has/been conferred upon Mr. 'Buick in recognition of the valuable Service ho has rendered to the cause of historical 6tudy in New Zealand by the several books lie has published-in that bonneotion (.which include "Old Manaiwatu" and "Old Marlborough").

. Mr. H. Herbrughten, 'the ' Belgian tnolinisti. has been selected first director of i-ho Mew South Wales State Conservatormm of Music, Sydney, at-a sal- ,- »ry of £1200 ' a . year:—Press tion. .-.. . •'

Mr. Robert Thompson, of the firm of Mliner and Thompson, Chrlstchurch, ,\yho diM on Saturday morning, was tone of the, pioneers of Canterbury, and iwasi born. at 'Roxeth, near Harrow, in 1835. In 1856 he arrived at' Lyttelton in the ship Sir Edward Paget. After an absence, in England and Australia, he' returned to Christchuroh in 1865. DFor a period he engaged in. the flax'dresaing' business, ana .later went in for threshing mills; In. 1873 he entered into partnership with the late Mr. J. J. Milner, .'who. retired from', the business' seven years late/ The lata 'Mr. Thompson "was for many, years president of -the , Rationalist ''Association.' " He is'survived by fourTsohs 'and' ithree daughters.

Dr. Pattie states that the announcement that he has'arranged to leave for [the front is ..incorrect.'

■ Dr. H. F. Holmden, of Auckland, loaves by the steamer Muritai from Wel- ; Hmgton on May 2 for Lohdon; with the intention or ottering his services to the ... iWar Office, , but proposes to resume '•.practice in Auckland at the close of Jfcho .war. ' I T^ellington'"tfrdaj loses ono of the' Tmost' promising of its younger genera- ■ rtion of citizens in- the.person .of Mr.. H. p. Ostler,''who has reUnquished the office of Crown Solicitor and assistant law ibfficer m the Crown Law Office to ■ enter ; into in. the ;_well-:;' v-ikn&ivn '-.Auckland;■! firm > of f solicitors, 1 .iMes'srs."Jackson•'and ' Russell.'.'.i.Mr;• Ostler, ; who 'tf as borii. in the' Mackenzie Country, .Canterbury,' in'. 1876, enjoyed ,the advantage, bf several .• years' study bt the fainoas .'old' Christ s. . Hospital . London, and on returning to - -New Zealand. in 1892 commenced farming m -the'. Levin district. ... After soma •six. or. seven' years'in tho country he !■ tame to Wellington/ and on the advioe of Lady-StourtooLlip .the study of-the.- ■ law,, passing his-first , term examination. CoUege in-1901- with.'first--class, honours ill jail subjects, passed' /second year's term in 1902 "again with first-class honours, and also passed first • V-section of LL.B., passing his final: section of LL,B. in 1904.' lie following .year he 'was admitted, as a barrister and solicitor. For a time he became asso- " ciate, to .Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice; later, was appointed in; succession to Mr. Martin: Chapman, K.C., to the . editorship\ of ,"N;Z. Law , Kiporte." Subsequently he appeared as junior with Mr. H. D. 8011, JE.C., in the big (Te ; Akau Native land case, and quickly Icame into prominence in ' the "Law* Courts. In 1910 he acqeptod.the position in the Crown' Law Office, which he has now- relinquished to again !enter . snto private practice. During the - time lib has. lived in Wellington Mr. ; .Ostler has been prominent in'public and semi-public affairs in various capacities. (Ho was a member of tlie'Licensing Com--mittee,. chairman of the- Victoria Collogo Council, a member of the .'Council of •. the Law . Society and- .the Council of [Law Deporting, a member of the Com-' mittee of the-Prisoners' Aid Society, , captain of the Motor Beserva; he organised apd was first captain of the Victoria College Football Club, and'was '. recently: elected & Fellow of the New , /Zealand University.' '