PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., will leave for the Wairarapa to-morrow to relieve the Magistrate there, who is indisposed, and Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., of Napier, will take up Mr. Reid's work in Wellington.

Mr. W. H. Hagger, Wellington Conciliation Commissioner, leaves Wellington to-day for Palmorston North and Wanganui iu connection with the Manawatu butchers' dispute and the Wniiganui carpenters' dispute. ■

The many friends of Mr. Herbert H v Norton, well known in this city as the New Zealand representative o£ the Sydney firm of Messrs.- Enoch Taylor and Company, will regret to hear of hie death at his home in Auckland on Thursday last, after a brief illness. The late Mr Norton was 52 years of age, aud leaves a widow, three daughters, and three sons, all the latter being on active service.

Cable advice has been received announcing the death in Englund last Friday of Mr. Sydney Johi-ston, of Orono-n-havo, Takapan, a well-known pastoralist in the Hawke's Bay' province. He was 77 years of age, and the second sonof the late Hon. John Johnston, and elder brother of tiie Hon. C. J Johnston, Speaker of the Legislative Council. Mis. and Miss Johnston are at present in England. IThe late Mr. Johnston lelt two other daughters, Mis. H. N. Wateon, of Palmereton North, and Mrs. Daniel Eiddiford, of Featheraton, whose husbands are on active service. The house flag of Johnston and Co. was flown ■yesterday as a mark of respect for the deceased.

Mr T. S. Lambert, the well-known architect, died last night .after an illness of only fiiree days. -Mr. Lambert was born in Selkirk, Scotland, where he served his articles, and later continued the study of architecture in Edinburgh. He arrived in Wellington early m 1866, and settled in the Eangitikei' district. \s the Titokowaru rebellion was then at its height, Mr. Lambert gave much of hia time to. volunteer matters. He removed to Chrislchurch in 1874, and for three yeare/was in the office ot Mr. F Stronts. In 1876 he personally surveyed tho entiro city of Christclmrch and afterwards compiled a map of the city, showing the buildings'. Early in M 77, Mr. Lambert recommended business on his own account, and during the period of 1893, when he returned to Wellington, he designed many of the pnncipal buildings in Christclmrch. The deceased gentleman also took a prominent part in ptiblic affairs, being ior some time a member of the Christchurch. City Council and other local bodies. In 3887 he designed and illuminated an address to Queen Victorm, for which he received Her Majesty's thanks and an expression of her admiration of the taste displayed. After his return to Wellington, Mr. Lambert continued the practice of his profession, and designed several of the business places in the city. Ho was 72 years of age, and has loft a widow, seven 60ns, arid two daughters.

Chaplain-Captain J. Eodgers lias arrived at Tauiherenikau Camp.

Mr. D. Myers, of Messrs. J. Myers and Co., who is at present in tho Bq-wim Street hospital, is progressing slowly towards hpalih.

Tho death is announced by a Press Association message from Hawera of a veteran journalist," Mr. John Christie. ■ Tho late Mr. Christie was about 70 years of age, and his writings on numerous subjects were known in many parts of the Dominion Hβ had been on tie staff of a great number of newspapers, and in many instances Tie had occupied the editorial qhair. He was in Oamaru for many years, and was. later on the "Ashburton Guardian." He was at one time editor of the old Wellinsrton "Evening Press," proprietor and editor of the Thames "Advertiser," and for some years editor of the Hawera "Star." The following telegram was sent from Wellington to Hawera on bphalf of the Institute of Journalists:—"TJie Journalists' Institute sincerely 'regrets the death of John Christie, one of the vice-presidents of the institute, a journalist of many parts, and a man of very high ideals and upright character." .The lato Mr. Christie leaves two daughters, ivho reside in Sydney. A specially heavy affliction has befallen Mrs. B. Holz, a resident of Wellington, two of her SOll6, Ernest (tho second

eldest) aud Allan (the youngest), having been killed in. action on June 13, while

a third son was wounded on the same day. The three lads left together with the Twenty-first Reinforcements. The facts of the case were reported to the Minister of Defence by the Director of

Baso Records (Major Norton Francis), and Sir James Allen at onco arranged a joint visit to the bereaved mother with a view to breaking the nerfs as gently as possible.* Ho also cabled for fullest particulars in regard to the wounded son.

Lieutenant George Goode, son of the late Dr. Goode, of Sydney, was _ killed in action in Prance on June 7. Lieutenant Goode, who was A.D.C. to General Glassford, Brigade Headquarters, was a grandson of the late Mr. Daniel Eiddiford, of Woburn, Lower Hutt. .

A master of the ballet, a , dancer with o, soul of an artist, the death at Ohristchurch on . Wednesday last of Alfredo Borzoni has robbed the terpsichorean world of an interesting personality, whose fame had been established, long before his arrival in New Zealand, some thirty-five years ago. Born in Genoa in 184S, Signor Boreoni, at the ago of Iβ, was - appointed chief dancer of tho Carlo Police, the famous theatre of his birth-

place. Later, under the celebrated Cargiullo, he received an appointment as a teacher at tho Dancing College. For a

period of four years lie forsook the cult »jf Terpsichore for Hie sterner delights of wiir, as a rcd-shirtwl member of the Garibaldi regiment. He came to the colonies under engagement to tho Lazarro nnd Lister Grand Opera Companies, having previously married the' prhna donna, the Signora venosta. Although a fine baritone singer, his main claim to distinction lay in his dancing, for he was perhaps the most famous exponent of the art when applied to opera who has visited Hip colonies. Eventually he set-

tled in Now Zealand with his wife, and lias sinre superintended most of the main dnnco festivals and ballets—in the latter of -which he was a specialist of striking originality—held in Australasia. One such carnival ho organised wns in connection with tho New Zealand International Exhibition. Madame Yenosta, his widow, who possessed a voico of marvellous ranee and power, possibly made her last public nppearanco in Dntiedin about fourteen years affo. Signor Bononi was a Wellington , resident for some years.