PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2680, 28 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Public Works (Hon. Mr. Eraser) left for Auckland last night. He will be in Auckland -until Monday evening, when lio will sail for -Whangaroi. Oil Wednesday ho will motor or drive to Paparoa, and will proceed to Maungatoroto on the following day. On Friday he will travel by motor to Auckland, via Warkworth, and will leavo Auckland on Saturday at midday for Wellington. His Worship the Mayor of Wellington and t'ao Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Luke) have accepted an invitation to attend the farewell conversazione to be tendered by the residents of Eastbourne to their late Mayor, Lieut. W. J. Organ, prior to his departure for the front. The conversazione is to be held in the Eastbourne Hall next Saturday evening. Mr. W. A. Kennedy, local manager for the Union Company, has been in indifferent health for some time, and consequently the company has granted him extended leave: Mr. S. K. Sleigh, manager of the Christchurch branch, arrives by the Maori this morning to take control of the local office. '

Mr. Kerslako, senior corporation overseer, who has been in the. 6ervice of the Wellington City Corporation for thirtyfour years, has been granted a month's leave of absence.• No election was needed for the vacancy on the Hutt Council, owing to the decision of Mr. Hobbs to withdraw from the contest. Mr'. A. G. Heron is thus elected unopposed. Private George IF, Stewart, who died at Trentbaw' Camp through drinking formalin by 1 mistake, was buried with military, honours in the Karori Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The Trentham Band headed the cortege, and a firing party was present from Trentham Camp. Chaplain-Captain Daly conducted the burial service, and Captain J. A. Shand, of A Company 11th Reinforcements, represented the Defence Department. Captain 11.I 1 . Beamish, of the head office of the Postal Department, who served with the 6th Contingent during the Boer War, has enlisted.Mr. Jolin Ryall has been appointed a member of tlie Grey County Council. The Rev. G. E. Hale returned* from the south yesterday morning. Mr. Richard Hartley Cartman, who died at his residence at Paeroa on Tuesday, was a very old settler in the. goldfields district. He was born at Bingsley, Yorkshire, in 1834, and was the elder son of the late Rev. Dr. Cartman, of Skipton,'Yorkshire. Mr. Cartman arrived in the Dominion in tho ship Chapman in 1863, and saw a great .deal of active service in the Maori Avar, having been a scout under Colonels St. John and M'Donald. During late years he followed farming pursuits. Mr. Cartman was much respected by those with whom-he was intimately acquainted. He leaves a widow, two sons, and three daughters. Mr. W. A. Hogg, who has been a telegraphist in the Masterton Post Office for some years, has received notice of his transfer to -Wellington. 'Mr. W. F. Jackson has been elected hon. secretary of the Carterton Volunteer Fire Brigade, in lieu of Mr. George Masson, who will shortly go into camp. The Rev. C. S. Buchanan, superintendent of tho American Methodist Missions in the Dutch East Indies, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by the Makura on Monday, accompanied by Mrs. Buchanan. Before proceeding to Vancouver, on his way to the United States, Mr. Buchanan proposes spending a short holiday in New Zealand.

The resignation of Miss Tewsley, librarian was_aecepted with regret by the City Council "last evening, and a letter expressing iJhe council's appreciation of her good work during the eight years 'of service is to be forwarded to her. Last evening the Wellington City Council passed a vote of condolence with the widow of. the late t Mr. P. M. Wheeler, a member of the corporation staff, who died recently. Mr. J. Watson Brown, general manager of the Singer Company, is at present in Wellington. ■ Captain E. B. Atwood, marine surveyor of Wellington,' met with a painful acoident on Wednesday, resulting in one of tihe small bones in his foot being fractured. It is probable thai Captain Atwood will be confined to his home for several days.

Mr. W. E. Pearson, secretary of the Welleslo.v Club, who went abroad for the benefit of his health, which is now fully restored, returned to Wellington on Monday. His itinerary included visits to India, Japan, Egypt, Great Britain, and Canada. "Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., has been appointed the . Eltham delegate to the Taranaki. War Relief Fund Association. The name of A.. T. 'Young (Wellington) was omitted from the list of successful candidates at the matriculation examinations. Mr.' Young qualified for matriculation, solicitors' general knowledge, and the medical preliminary. , Messrs. J. C. Blair and R. J. Ashton, of the Melbourne office of tho Vaccuum Oil Co. Proprietary, Ltd., arrived Wellington last evening on a tour, of inspection of the N.Z. branches of the company. Messrs. Blair and Ashton were for many years associated with the local office of the Vacuum Oil Co. Mr. Blair was also a keen tennis enthusiast during his stay here. . ■ ( Messrs. V. Hibiya and'S. Kawanashi, from Japan, who propose touring New Zealand, partly for pleasure and also with a view to advancing the wool trade between the Dominion and their own country, arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Makura on Monday. The firm which Mr. Hibiya represents has already established a depot for wool in Sydney, Mr. John Sheehy, late of the 18bh (Royal Irish) Regiment, died at the Veterans' Home, Auckland, on Monday last, at the age of 78 years. > The late veteran arrived iu Auckland with his regiment in July, 1863, ana went through the Maori War. He was buried with military honours. Mr. Robert M'Millan, editor of the Sydney "Stock and Station Journal," is to arrive in Wellington next week on the Manuka. He is to attend the Press Association's annual meeting as the delegate from the Independent Gable Service Board. Mr. M'Millau is the author of a number of books, and he wrote much about New Zealand as tho result of a visit in the north three; yeors ago. It is his intention to visit Chnstchuroli and Duncdin before going to the Kotprua conference. . Mr. A. L. E; Maysmor, who has "been associated with the comnieicial staff of Tiie Dominion for the past six years, will go into camp at Trentham on February 8. The following members of the J. C. Williamson Comic Opera Company are staving at the Albert Hotel: Miss Ethel Cadman, Miss Ethel and Miss Alien Bonnetto, Miss Enid Avict, Mr. Leslie Holland and Mr. John Farrell; also Miss Ivy Strickland and Miss Dorothy Arthur, of Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. M'Kenzie, of Marton ; Miss F. and Miss A. Chapman, of Masterton, and Mr. 0. T. Smith, of Christchurch.

In speaking to an "Otago Daily Times" reporter,' Major Colvin, of the Salvation Army, said: "A .strango feature of life in this Dominion is tho great number of people who want to get rid of the responsibility of training their families. . We are simply besieged with parents," he said, "and in all my experience of social work in different countries I have naver seen anyibim: like it," *