PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 257, 25 July 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Eegal. His Excellency the Governor-General arrived at Napier breakwalcr in the Tiij tanekai about noon yesterday, says a Press Association telegram, and "eeeived a civic reception in the Municipal Tl-ea-trc. Lord Liverpool was preserved with an illuminated address by the ..Mayor and councillors, and was cntertainsd n ( - luncheon by leading citizens. His Excellency visited the hospital nnd the Soldiers' Club, and sailed for Wellington at 5 p.m.

The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonalrt has returned from his visit to Gisborne, where he was present at the peace celebrations.

The remains of tho late Sir John Denniston were cremated at the Karori Cemetery yesterday afternoon, the Rev. S. Robertson Orr officiating. The pallbearers were Mr. Maurice Denniston, Sir John Salmond, and Messrs. P. B. Cooke, Duncan Menzies, T. Young, and Dr. Hay. Among those present at the proceedings, which were of a private nature, were the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), Mr. Justice Chapman, the Attorney-Gen-eral (Sir Francis Bell), Sir John Findlay, K.C., and Messrs. T. Shailer Weston, A. W. Blair, H. F. Von Haast, and Gerald Fitzgerald. Sympathetic reference to the death of Sir John Demiiston was made in Court at To Kuiti yesterday by Mr. CI. P. Findlay nnd Mr. J. D. Vernon solicitors, and Mr. E. W. Burton, S.M.

A Press Association message from New Plymouth states that at the age of 93 ; there peacefully passed away yesterday the relict of Mr. Tlios. Kingwell Skinner. I'l'ho deceased with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Veale, arrived in New Plymouth by the Amelia Thompson on September 3, 1811, from Houlsworthy, Devon. I Slie was then sixteen. She married in i IS4G, and had resided there ever since. I tier knsbniid died in 1874. Mrs. Skinner I Ims left two sons, Messrs. T. IC. nnd W. H. Skinner, the latter being. ex-Commis-I sioner of Crown Lands.

Registration of the 'Wellington Municipal Tramway and Electric Light Power Houses Employees' Union under the Arbitration Act has been cancelled.

Mr. C. E. Cnmpsty, on leaving tiie Otald State School, received a presentation os a mark of esteem from the staff and scholars. Mr. A. Eudkiu, of Wellington, has succeeded Mr. Cumpsty.

Opportunity was taken by tho member* of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday afternoon to express their thanks to Dr. Hislop for the work he has done as acting-medical superintendent of the hospital since the retirement of Dr. Barclay and the appointment of Dr. Woodhouse. The chairman, Mr. J. W. M'Ewan, said that Dr. Hislop had done very good work at the institution, and his 'services had been much appreciated by the board and by the patients. Now that he was about to relinquish tho position of acting-superintendent, the speaker conveyed the best wishes of the board for Dr. Hislop's future welfare. Bv acclamation, tho board carried a motion thanking Dr. Hislop for his valued services at the hospital.

Chief Electrical Officer Gordon C. Hay, who left Now .Zealand with tho Samo.m Mvaneo Guard and Inter with tlic lath N Z ]'\A., and who afterwards joined up with"tho Navy with the above rank, returned to New Zealand by the. steamer llrilon on Wednesday, and returns to his home in Auckland on Saturday.

i Mr. George Gordon Byron'died at Ivaia- ' poi on Wednesday. In the early 'sixties ■ Mr. Byron joined in the rush to Gabriel s : Gully, and"with his mates pegged out a claim next, to that of Gabriel's, whose claim subsequently proved the richest I on tho field, theirs proving a failure. ! Monroo's Gully was next tried, and here 1 .Mr. Byron did well.

The appointment of Mr. T. 13. Maunselktq be Stipendiary Magistrate at AVestport is gazetted.

I'rior to commencing the business of the Hospital Board yesterday,' the chairman, Mr. J. W. M'Euran, extended a hearty welcome to tho new medical superintendent of tho hospital, Dr. 1 , . «• AVoodhouse, who lias recently returned from the front. , Mr. M'Ewan expressed the pleasure of the members of tho board in seeing Dr. AA'oodhousc back from the war, in which he had served with distinction. The chairman also welcomed to a seal on the board Mr 11. Black, who has been elected as the representative of the combined boroughs of Lower Hutt and Eastbourne, vice Mr. H. Baldwin, resigned.

The death occurred at Tauranga on I Wednesday morning of Mr. David Asher j ono of the best known residents of twit town. The. late Mr. Aslier, who was 08 years of age, was born and educated in Auckland, ami was in business in Ift"ranga for a great many years. lp wife died eight months ago, leaving him with six sons and five daughters. A the sons have been prominent footballers. One "of them—Mr. Henry Aslier-is in the ltaihvay Department in AYe.nngton, and Mrs. Parata, of AYellington (widow ot Mr. Charles Piirnra. ex-M.P. for Hie Southern Maori District) is a daughter of the deceased gentleman. The youngest ton (Private George Aslier, who recently returned from the front after three years' active service) was captain ot a very successful team of New Zealand soldiers. The late Mr. Aslier left about fifty grandchildren and two great-grand-children. Dr. A. B. Pearson, bacteriologist of !tho North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, has been granted pay, to enable him to visit Great Britain eight mouths' leave of absence on lull and revise his bacteriological knowledge, in accordance with the latest discoveries.