PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2495, 23 June 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman will proceed to Blenheim this week to preside at tho Supreme Court sittings in that centre. Tho Hon. B. 11. Wise has arrirod in London, and will commence his duties to-day as Agent-General for New; South (Wales, in succession to Sir Timothy Coghlan.—Press- Association. Mr. W. Christian Ellard, who has been science master at t'lie Gattou Agricultural College. Queensland, for the past live and a half years, lias been appointed ono of tho instructors in agriculture to the Auckland Education Board. The Mayor of Dunedin (Mr. J. J. Clark) telegraphed to Sir Francis H. D. Bell tho congratulations of the citizens of Dunedin on his being honoured by being created a K.C.M.G. On Saturday His Worship received the following message from Sir Francis: —"I thank you sincerely for your kind thought for an old Otago boy, and value very much the congratulations you offer from yourself and the citizens of Dunedin;" Mr. Edwin Thomas Norris, M.A., Registrar of the Victoria College University, and formerly Assistant Registrar of the University of New Zealand, was yesterday appointed Registrar of tho University of Ne.v Zealand, in succession to Mr. Barclay Hector. Mr. Norris was selected from 43 applicants for the post. For nearly twenty years Mr. Norris was a teacher at secondary schools in New Zealand; for three years he was Assistant Registrar of the New Zealand University, a position he relinquished to take up the Registrarship of Victoria College, m succession to Mr. O. P. Powles. He is a graduate of tho University of New Zealand, and gained his Master of Arts degree (with honours in languages and literature) in 1893. Mr. Norris has received many messages of congratulation on his appointment. Mr. C. B. Bowie, Wellington mantiger of tho Kaiapoi Woollen Company for tlie last seventeen years, -has Been promoted to an important, position_ in the head office of the company at Christchurch; and leaves Wellington to-day to take up Ms new positiou. General regret will be expressed at ■the news tbat Mr. L. G. MacKay, late secretary of the Wellington Investment, •Trustee, and Agency Company, Ltd., has returned from England very poorly in health. He wont to England for tho benefit of his health some nine months 'ago, but specialists there could not as"sist him. Mr. Mackay is at present in the Davis Street Private Hospital. Mr. C. B. Westmacott, who has been /piloting the "Who's the Lady?" Comedy Company through New Zealand, is in Wellington. The members of tho company will leave for Sydney to-mor-row. 1 Mr. J. Bowden, of the Napier branch 'of Messrs. Ro.-is and Glendining, Ltd., has been appointed insurance manager for the Canterbury Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association, Timaru. \ John Martin, a very old and fine type of colonist, died at the Kurnara Hospital on Friday. He celebrated _tbe flOth anniversary of his birthday just two days beforo he died. He was welliknown throughout the Kurnara district for his uprightness and integrity, and formerly followed the diggings. He [was a native of London, England, and : jhad been 55 years in New Zealand. : Mr. Hugh Miller, of the staff of the/ Wa6terton District High School, who ias been appointed first assistant at ■tho Brittomart Street School, leaves for on Monday next (says our Masterton correspondent). The death occurred at his residence', •Boulcott Street, at 5 o'clock yesterday morning of Mr. Robert Archibald, for- ■ merly a well-kno.wn builder and contractor, who resided for many years in Courtenay Place when that thoroughfare was a purely residential part of ,the City. Mr. Archibald was born at 'Alloa, Scotland, eighty years ago, and in that town learned the trade of a builder under his father. In 1853 Mr. 'Archibald and some other young Scotchmen, influenced by the tales that were being told of the wealth, to be acquired at the Victorian diggings, clubbed together and purchased the 85-ton schooner Favourite, and in that small vessel the adventurous jiarty made the voyage to Melbourne without serious mishap. After spending four years in •Victoria, Mr. Archibald came over to Wellington in the barquentine Belle Creole, and had resided here ever since. _ Soon after his arrival he entered into partnership witb the late Mr. Thomas Scoullar, and together they built several fine structures, including the Government Printing Office, tho Wellington Club, the first Petone Woollen Mill, and St. Andrew's Church on the Terrace. The deceased, whose health !iad been failing for the past year or :two, was an early member of the Wel,'lington Bowling Club, and was an old . member of the Antipodean Lodge of Oddfellows. He leaves two sons, Messrs. ,T. R, Archibald and W. R, Archibald, and one daughter. '• During tlie past year (states the annual report of tho Newtown Bowling Club) Messrs. J. W. Copithorne and J. (Trevor, our late most worthy president, passed away. Both gentlemen were much' esteemed by all who knew them, and both were valued members of the club. Mr. Trevor especially will be much missed from the green, his kindliness of disposition and bluff good humour endearing him to all. It was one of our late president's most keen regrets that his illness rendered him unable, for the latter part of the seaeon, to take that hearty and live interest in tie club's affairs that he, upon ■ his election, had so keenly looked forward to taking. The heartfelt sympathy , of all our members is tendered to both Qiis and the late Mr. Copithorno's families.