PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2932, 18 November 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

rrr V . 1 ' !gljt.'H§n. W. HI Herries_ is at pre-' sent on a tour of inspection of the BoutE'Msland railways. He -will- not rotum'to -Wellington until Sunday week." ' v.". ' Sir. Justice Edwards 'leaves 'Wellington fenday for Palmerston' North, where hcAwill hold sittings of-the Supreme Court.:v ■ Mr. John Redmond,- postmaster at To !Ar6 , forHhe'past"'fivei':yea'rS,' been appointed an 'assistant.'inspector' of-" post offices, < "will •' -have his, headquarters at'Palmerston North. A;. Press Association message from - Lbndon ."'states that. Melville Kay, a eecorid lieutenant iii \ho Durham Regi- : ' ment, a New Zealand farmer,' has been killed in action. . . , 'An old. . respected resident' of Hastings; : in. the person, of Mr. Francis C.'J Tipping," died, yesterday morning a't : the age .of' seventy-four. ' The deceased arrived- in New Zealand 'fifty-six;-years'."ago,', settling' in Auckland-." Two.'years-later he moved to Canter-, bury,'arid' was- farming'there for thirty' odd''"years:' Ultimately he settled in ; Hastings,,as manager for Messrs. Williams 'arid''Kettle, "Ltd., ''arid 'fifteen' years ago entered' into' business with Mr.-' Robert Braifchwaite. " : • A meeting representing the- South ■Wairarapa'School Committees, held in G.r.eytown on' Thursday, decided to recognise the long and valuable services of, Sir Walter liuchanan By placing his portait in the''.board room; ;-lt was 'also decided to -present Sir \Valter Buchanan with-an engrossed testimonial.• I'ho funeral' of the late Mr. James Stanislaus Little took place yesterday morning • at the'., Karori, cemetery'. Solemn. E-eqiiiem t .;Mas's was celebrated at Saint Mary of.'tlio 'Angels, Boulcott Street, .by the'-Roy. Father Venning," who .also read the ; service', a-t'-'the :grave- * side. 'The funeral - as attended by a'large number of representatives 'of- the' business community, among' whom the late Mr. _Little was very highly esteemed, as well as a large number of per-' sonal friends. Several hymns were rendered by the late Mr. Little's choir associates during'the celebration of Mass. ' Among the numerous wreaths sent were those from the following St. Gerard's Choir, Commercial Travellers' Association, the ■ British Empire Trading Co.; Ltd., staff of the British Entire- -Trading Co., Ltd.> staff of the British United Show Machinery Co, ns well as' many messages of- sytnpathy from all parts of'the Dominion. On severing his connection with the reporting staff of ■' The Dominion, to join, that of the "Wanganui "Herald;" Mr. W. J. H. Reynolds was presented last' evening 7 with' a v Suitable memento of esteem ,and regard, and also one for Mrs. Reynolds. The' members of the ' staff joined in '"wishing.'Mr. Reynolds a'happy and prosperous future in bis new sphere of journalistic endeavour. • The Rev. A. C. Lawry, president of the; Methodist Church of New Zealand, left/for'Ciiristchurch last night, after an official visit to "Wellington in connection with military .and Church af- . fairs. The excellent' appearance of: tho renovated Methodist Institute, Trenth'am, specially appealed to the president, who warmly congratulated Capt.Chaplain Seamer. .... ' ) A Press' Association message from Diiriediu records the death'at the, age of 73 years -of the R.ev.' James Chisholni, a- retired Presbyterian minister. Deceased was Moderator of the' General Assembly in 1908, and was the author of; '.'Fifty Year Syne," a-history of the Otago Presbyterian Church 'from its . origin; Born in Scotland, Mr.'Chisholm came but to Now Zealand in 1858 in the ship Three Bells, and was one of the first adventurers at the Gabriel's Gully gold rush. He met with success, and returned to Southland to study for the ministry. He was ordained in .1872." : For twenty-nine years he had charge.of Milton, and iii ,1899 he went to Palmer-" Eton North','; where; he': Was' "successfulm • . bringing ';,, together the congregation, ! which','. through some serious difference,. had formed two parties. Mr. Chisholni was later on minister at Roslyn, and at one .time edited the' Outlook.' - He married-a daughter of the late Mr. J. B. Park, teacher at the High Street School,Dunedin.. Mr. F.- W. Connell has succeeded the late Mr.-Walter Rutherford as acting agent of the Public -Trustee at Palmer- , ston North. A Press Association message from London, received last ; evening, states that Sir, Joseph Ward, who had hurriedly to leave London for Dublin to see his son, Mr. Gladstone Ward,- who had been severely injured in a motoring accident,- has now returned to the Capital. His son is much better. ■ Professor Lowtell, .the distinguished American astronomer,. - scientist, and ] writer, whose death ..was reported-this week, was born at Boston, 1855. He had been (non-resident) professor of astronomy at; Massachusetts Institute of-Technology since. 1902, and'for long was director of-the Lowell Observatory. He was counsellor and Foreign Secretary -to the Korean Special Mission to ' the-.United, States and guest of the Korean Government in 1883;' lived in Japan at, intervals, 1883-93; Phi Betta Kappa .Poet at Harvard, .1889 ;■ established the famous Lowell Observatory i in 1894; undertook various -astronomic- t al observation expeditions to various t parts of the worlcl; and had been hone oured \ by : most of the world's great c scientific societiesand published three 1 well-known books .on Japan and the G East, and many others on astronomical \ subjects. .. ; ' : ,'