PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2827, 19 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

-Mr. James Walter, au old settler In tho Wellington district, died in a private hospital on Sunday, after a very long illness, Tho deceased, who was aljoiit 80 years of age, arrived in "Wellington with his parents in 1841 in the ship Arab Bristol, and was brought up as a former. He lived at Paremata for a great many years, and afterwards settled at Plimmerton. In the early days ho was prominent in aquatic circles as captain of the Dolly Vardeit. He was married to a daughter of the late Mr. Ji. P. Collins, of Brougham Street, and has left her and five children. For several years Mr. "Walker was a member of the Hutt County Council, and at one time occupied the position ot chairman of that "body. The interment is to bo mado at Pahautanui. Corporal Harry Whishaw, reported kill- ' cd in-action in France on July 3, was a eon of Mrs. John Whishaw, of Foathorston, and was one of the first to enlist from there in tho Main Body of the Expeditionary Force. In tho early stages of the Galiipoli operations ho was severely wounded, and after hospital treatment in Egypt, he returned to Grallipoli, where ho was again wounded, and sent to England to undergo an operation. Recovering, ho was sent to France, and lost his life after nearly two years of strenuous service. The "Wellington Education Board has ' made tho following appointments:— Judgefortl, solo teacher, Mrs. Balding) Mangatainoka, head- teacher, Mr. F. G. 1 Thompson ■, Masterton, assistant master, Mr; J. J. Trainer; Kilbirnie, infant • mistress. Miss F. E. S. Benzoni; Mauriceville West, solo teacher, Mrs. A. "E. Engstrom; Kilbirnie, assistant, Miss F. M. Chatwin; Berhampore, assistant, Miss L. Cameron; Brooklyn, assistant, Miss D. Ensor. Mr. Harry Muller. manager in Victoria for Fuller's Vaudeville Circuit, was a passenger from Sydney by the Moeralii. Mr. Muller leaves for San Franoisco by tho Maitai, and will visit New York, Chicago, and other big centres in America in search of specialities for the Christmas pantomime, to bo produced in Sydney by George Marlow, Ltd. Mr. Muller expects to return to Sydney In Novombor. Tho death', of Mr. James Edward O'Leary in Auckland removes another old colonist. Mr. O'Leary was born in Auckland 63 years ago. His father and mother landed at, Kororaroka (Russell) in IS4O, and during those perilous tiroes. they were driven from their homes by the Maoris during the war. His parents took refuse on H.M.S. Calliope, and were taken to Auckland in 1845, where tlie descendants of the family havo remained ever since. His father 'bought land at tho first land salo in Auckland, and owned large properties in Queen Street when that land was then, on the slopes of a gully. Mr. O'Leary remembered the great fire of Auckland, when the Hotel Osprey took firo and Auckland vcas left a 'heap of ruins. Ho was on. active service in Auckland during the Maori war. ' Mr. John Galletly, of North Moeraki Downs, Stoke, is dead. Mr. Galletly was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1840, and was brought up to farming pursuits. In 1860 he landed in Lyttelton by the ship Clontarf, and four years later took up land in the Cust district. Mr. R. T. • Caldow, who has boon the chairman, of tho cdmmitteo of the Choral Union (and the Royal Choral Society before the: amalgamation) for a number of yeara past, was entertained by the members of that body at a social evening in Godber's Rooms on Monday, on the eve of his departure for Invercargill, where he is to take charge of the new railway workshops. In the absenoe of tlio president (Mr. J. P. Luke), Mr. Frank Young (now chairman of the committee of the union) referred to the_ splendid work Mr. Caldow had done in the interest of music in. Wellington, and, in particular, in connection with tho affairs of tho late Choral Society, and tho new union. They were glad he was being promoted, but very sorry' to lose "his. strong guiding hand. Mr. J. R. Burley, Mr. W. G. Hamerton, and Mr. Perry also eulogised the services rendered by Mr. Caldow, -who would, bo greatly misled in Wellington. Mr. Caldow was presented with a travel-ling-rug as a memonto of esteem. During the.evening there were games, and songs were sung "by Misses Segrief arid Gamble, Messrs. F. Toung and Laycock. Mr. W. H. Chittyactod as chairman.