PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3021, 7 March 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen, Acting-Prime Minister, left Auckland last night for so that he is due back here this afternoon.

The Hon. W. H. Hemes is expected to arrive in Wellington from the north to-day.

The Hon. Alfred Deakin, formerly Prime Minister of tho Commonwealth, and Mrs. Deakin are at present visiting Now Zealand, being now at Auckland.

Sir James Carroll arrived at Auckland yesterday. He 6aid that. Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward were doing splendid work in the Old Country. They appeared to be well in touch with everything.—Press Assn.

News has been received by cablegram, says a, Press Association telegram from Tiinaru, of the death in England, on February 11, of Mr. Frederick William Marchant, well known in New Zealand as a civil engineer. Mr. Marchant had much to do with the. earlier harbour works at. Timaru, laid out the New Plymouth breakwater, and consulted in Gisborne and elsewhere. At Gisborne he laid out tho water supply and drainage. As engineer of local bodies in Timaru he laid out many system water-races, built the first ferro-conorete bridge in Now Zealand for Opihi, and designed and carried outs in many places a system of confining vagrant shingle rivers at bridges by means of artificial banks which has been tho means of saving thousands of pounds to local authorities in Timaru and elsewhere. Deceased leaves a widow, two married daughters, one son. Dr. Eric Marchant, of the N.Z.A.M.C, in France. Another son was a captain in the Bth M.R., and was killed in Egypt

Mr. J. Hislop, Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs, and Mr. W. 'S. Short, Under-Secretary for Public Works and Mines, are at present in Auckland.

Major .T. L. Sleemau, L.G.S., Director of Military Training, returned to Wellington yesterday from an instructional tour in tho South Island. Ho will proceed to New Plymouth on Thursday next, on similar business.

Tile death is announced of Dr. William SalmoLid, Emeritus Professor of Menial and Moral Philosophy in the University of Otago. Professor Salmond was one of the most distinguished, most learned, and best Moved teachers who have ever been in tho college. Bora in Edinburgh in 1835,> tho late Dr. Salmond was educated at Horiot's Hospital, the High School, and the University in his native city, lie graduated B.A. in 1853, became Doctor of Divinity of Glasgow University in 1882, and of Edinburgh University three years later. Ho studied theology in Scotland and Germany for four years, and was ordained minister of tho Presbyterian Church of North Shields in the North of England, where he remained for seventeen years. He arrived, at Port Chalmers early'in 1.876 by tho ship Corona. For ten years he was professor of theology in the Presbyterian Church, and received tho Chair of Mental and Moral philosophy iu the University of Otago in 1888. He has published from time to time several sermons, lectures, and pamphlets,i chiefly theological, and contributed largely to periodicals. He married at Dunfermline a daughter of the. late Piev. James Young, and leaves four sons, Messrs. J, AY. Salmond. So-licitor-General; Charles Salmond, Professor of Mental Science, Canterbury College: ■) . L. Salmond, architect, Dunrdin ; Edwin Salmond, merchant, AVelliii"lon, ar.d four daughters.

Mr. D'Arcy Stuart Ferguson, manager in New Zealand for Messrs. Burns, Philp_ and Co., Ltd., the wellknown shipping firm, has enlisted for service abroad, and goes into camp shortly with the Thirtieth Pcinforceraents.

Mr. Diincau M'Lellan, late headmaster of tho Napier North (AVestshore) School, is dead. For many years past Mr. M'Lellan resided: at AVestshore, and'was vory highly esteemed by the teaching profession, as well as by a wide circle of friends. Ho was recently granted sick leave by the Education Board, owing to his indifferent health, and proceeded to Cambridge, but tho change proved of no avail, and death occurred, on Friday last.

Mr. J. Y. Curtis, of the commercial' staff of the "Evening Post," who went into camp with tho N.C.O.'s yesterday, was presented by the commercial and advertising staffs of tho paper with a gladstono bag and a razor. Mr. Curtis who has for some time past been a lieutenant in the D Battery of Artillery, has joined tho Army Service Corps.

Mr. Sydney Kidman, the "Cattle King" of Australia, who is at present making his first visit to Wellington, is among the prominent Australians who supported conscription during the referendum contest, and as an employer lie has facilitated recruiting among the many hundreds of men who are in his service. All the men who have gone to the front from the properties he controls have their billets open for them when they return.

Tho Hon Taame Parata, M.L.C., and ex-M.P. for the Southern Maori District, is dead. Mr. Parata, who was 81 years of age, had lately been stricken with very severe illness, and his family had been summoned to his bedside from difforent parts of Now Zealand in the last day or two. The rugged old figure of "Taame" Parata, as ho -was called by everybody who knew him, was one of the best known in the halls of Parliament for the thirty odd years that Mr. Parata sat as a member of either House. Amongst his own people he -wielded great influence, being chief ,of the Ngaitahu, Waitaha, and Ngatimamoe tribes. He was member for the Southern Maori District from 1885 until 1911. when he retired to be succeeded by his son, Mr. Charles Parata, of Wellington. In 1912 he was appointed to a seat in the Legislative Council.