PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

: The Hon. T. M. Wilford has gone to the South Island. Mr. James Hislop (Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs), accompanied by Mrs. Hislop, arrived at Whakatane yesterday morning from Sydney (states a Press 1 Association message). Mr. Hislop has ; I been visiting Australia for health reat Eons for the past three months. ' Major H. S. N. Robinson, N.Z.S.C, ' wlio has been on active service for some considerable time, arrived in Wellington ■ yesterday- Following the reorganisation ; of the New Zealand Division in Egypt • in 1915-16 he proceeded to England, where ■ he acted as Staff officer to the Comi mandant there, and subsequently pro--1 cecded to Franco with the 4th Infantry i Brigade as Staff captain to Hrigadier- ' General Hart. Since then he has been : serving with his division in fho field. Captain F. J. R. Earl, M.C., who was sniped at Wolsh Ridge on September 23, is reported (o be making satisfactory progress at Brnckenhurst from a shattered wrist. Captain Earl had an arm shattered at Messines. He is ■>. brother-in-law of the late Colonel Bauehop, who ' fell on GaUipoYi- ! Bishop Sprott is at present at Pahiatua on diocesan business, and while there ho will hold confirmation services. The Rev. Thomas Roseby, M.A., LL.D.. formerly Congregational minister in Dunedin, who died in New South Wales this week, was born in Sydney in 1841. He was minister of the Petersham Congregational Church from 1807 to 1871. He eamo to New Zealand in 1872, and from that year to 1885 was Minister of tho Duiieciin Congregational Church. Ho was a member of the University Senate of New Zealand from 1878 to 1885. He returned to Australia in 1885, • and in IS9I he was delegate from New South Wales to the International Congregational Conference in London. He was first president of the Now South Wales Evangelical Council, and advocated union of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches. He gained considerable celebrity as an. astronomer by his computation in 1895 of tho elliptical elements of Gale's comet. Mr. ,Tohn Pollard,. eldest son of. Mr. Tom Pollard, who has been on the literary staff of the "Lyttelton Times' for the past twelve years, has been appointed sub-editor of the "Southland Times." The death has occurred at Seddonville of an old pioneer, in. tho 'person of Mr George Bain. Deceased, who had reached the age of 80 years, was born in the North of Ireland. He left there in 1865, and landed in Auckland, whore he engaged in farming, and a'terwards 'proceeded to the Thames rush. Then he was employed in the "Devery Bag" tunnel, Dunedin. In 183-i he went to Denniston and worked a few years, afterwards proceeding to Seddonv'ille, where be has been engaged in farming. The late Mr. Bain leaves a wife and grown-up family of five daughters ' and five sons. 36 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren. Mr. Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Provincial Employers' Association, was in Wellington yesterday. Another of Kaikoura's old identities died on Monday in tho person of Mr. John Peoples, senior, aged 82 years. He had resided in Kaikou'ra for about fifty years, going to the district from the West Coast, where ho had followed mining pursuits. Mr. C. I. Harkness, of Weraroa, was the only candidate nominated for tho vacancy in the Horowhenua County Council, and has- been declared elected. Mr. Harkness is the representative of the district on the Wellington Education Board. Mr. Lawford, of Dannevirkc, is going to Gisborne in the New Year as manager of the Union Bank of Australia, in succession to Mr. F. T. Morgan, who is retiring from the bank's service. Mr, Edward Bellbouse, an old resident of Auckland, diet! at his residence, Mount Eden, on Tuesday, Mr. Bellhouse, who /was in his eighty-fifth year, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and came to New Zealand in 1881. For two years be lived on the Grant and Foster settlement, now known as the Shaftesbury settlement, near . Te Aii'ohn. Ho subsequently moved to ( Auckland, where he lived up to the time , of his death. He was n prominent, member of the Methodist Church. His only son is tho Rev. H. E. Bellhouse, of St. John's Methodist Church. Ponsonby, president-elect of the Methodist Church of New Zealand. Mr. Bellhouse, isi also survived by two daughters, his wife linvinrr died some years ago. < Mr. Norman W. Jiowe, of Christchurch, • is at present vising Wellington.