PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2755, 26 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. G. W. Russell returned from Rotorua yesterday morning. The Hon. W. H. Herries arrived back from Auckland yesterday. Sir Maurice O'Rorke has been reelected chairman of the Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School. He has occupied the position for nearly 50 years. Sir James Mills is to succeed Sir Archibald Denny as president of the. Marine Engineers' Association in London. Mr. R. Carey Patten, a member of the Federal Hous.e in Australia, liar reached Auckland on a visit. Chaplain Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Burton (Christchurcb), who remained in Loudon when the Marama left, on account of his health, has since undergone an operation. This has proved successful, and Lieutenant-Colonel Burton is convalescing at St. 'Albans. Word has been received at Aalibv that Lieut.-Colonel Findlay, C.B.' recovered from his wounds, and rejoined, his regiment. < Just before the last New Ze: mail left England Major W. R. will, Liverpool Regiment, was gazei General Staff Officer, first grade, wu the rank of temporary . lieutenantcolonel while so employed. . Mr. L. Muir, editor of the "Poverty Bay Herald," is a visitor to Wellington. - -- / Mr. Thomas Trood, British, Vice-con-sul at Apia, Samoa, from the time of tho German annexation to the occupation by the New Zealand Forces, has jurt died, aged 83 years. Since the British occupation Mr. Trood has been Assistant Native Judge. His funeral was very largely attended, amongst those present being Colonel Jjogan and Btaff. . , The Rev. Frederic Warner, of Collins Street Church, Melbourne, has had tendered to him a call to the pastorate of tho Congregational Church at Beresn ford' Street, Auckland. Mr. Warns" has been supplying for some months and has greatly improved the attend ance at the services. He has inti mated that ho will take time to con sider what his decision will be.' Tho death occurred on Sunday, & his residence, Clontarf, St. Stephen',; Avenue, Parnell. 1 of Mr. George Hesj lop, late of Hawke's Bay. Mr. Heslop, who was born in Northumberland, England, came to New Zealand, with his parents, when live years of age. Htf has been in the Dominion for many years, and was well-known in Hawke's Bay, where he owned a large station. He was also ft'' breedfer of racehorses'. He leaves a widow, a son, and a daughter. Mr. Heslop has lived in Auckland during the past twelve months. Another of Wellington's old settlers passed away early yesterday morning at No. 18 Roxburgh Street,., in the person of Mrs. Mary Jane Jillett, widow of the late Mr. William Jillett, of Titahi Bay, where lie followed farming pursuits. Mrs. Jillett was born in Wellington in the year 1842, and was probably one of the oldest of nativeborn Wellingtoniiins. ,The deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. Jolfn Whitehouse, and was born here just after the arrival of her parents from the Old Country. She leaves two adult children. Miss Beatrice Jillett and Mr. Herbert Jillett, of Porirua, farmer. i Tho Hon. J. D. Ormond has been confined to his house ,by illhess for some considerable time. The Executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute, in its annual report, considers that tho New Zealand Educational Institute 'lias reason to feel gratified at the appointment of Mr.' John Caughley, M.A., to' the, important office of Assistant Director of Education. This appointment is at . once a well deserved tribute to the distin-' guished ability and high character of Mr. Caughley, and an official acknowledgment of the preponderating. importance of primary school work in the educational scheme of this Dominion. Mr. IF. Foley, formerly of Dunedin, and latterly of Palmerston North,_ has been appointed to the managership of the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Express Company. Mr. -F. R. Gillingham, of Fairlie, who has been a member .of the South Canterbury Hospital Board for the past 24 years, and for the past eight years its ohairman, lias been re-elected chairman for the ensuing two years. Mr. B. C. Aston, agricultural chemist of the Dominion Laboratory, arrived in Auckland from Wellington on Saturday. • -y . . Major Neville Newcomb, adjutant ol the New Zealand Reinforcements camp at Featherston, is spending the Eister | holidays in Auckland. At a recent meeting of the Diocesan Council of the Roman Catholic ChuroW it was decided to effect the following changes, says the Auckland "Herald": —The Rev. Father Kelly, of St. Bene-i diet's) is to be transferred to Puhoi, and Father Kerraine from Pulioi to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Father Bleakley from Ponsonby to St. Benedict's, and Father Flyun from St. Benedict's to Ponsonby, and Father Dunphy from tho Cathedral to St-. Benedict's.