PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 269, 9 August 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Joseph Ward. Minister of Finance, has arranged to leave for Christclnirch bv the ferrv steamer this ,evening. He will refuriv it. Wellington on Wednesday. Tho Minister staled yesterday that lie intended lo have o. few day's' holiday before he resumed active, work in Wellington. Mr. Justice' Stringer left for the south ■ last evening to altend a sit.liug of Iho Arbitration Court in Diincdin. Dean Mayne, of Napier, who is leaving for England, wa.-. entertained by his parishioners on Wednesday evening. During the evening Iho Bishop of Waiapu, who presided, presented the Dean with a. handsome, cheque. The Rev. W.-.T. Simpkins is to act as .Dean . Mayne's locum tcnens. Mail advices, from Australia report (he death at the age of IB years of ■ the, lit. lion, W. P. Sclireiner, High Commissioner for Hon Hi Africa. The deceased was born in Cape Colony, and married a sister of ex-President lieitz, of the Orange Free State. He was educated at Cape University. Loudon University, and Downing College, Cambridge. Mr. Sclireiner was admitted In the liar. Inner Temple, in ISS-. Tie was a member of Mr. Khodes's second Ministry in 1893. being twice Allorury-Onernl, ami. Prime .Minister of Cape Colony in 18!l8-tl)0D. The induction of Ihe I'ev. J. H. Brodin into Hie parish of Murnokakolio lookplace on Wednesday aKernoon, and was carried through .by a Cmuniissio'i of Iho ITawke's Hay Presbylerv, consisting of the Itevs. J.. A. Asher and P. liainsav and Messrs. P. Burr and A. H. Xovric (elders). Mr. V. Sanderson, Inspector of Factories at YJuncdin, has received notice of his transfer (o Masterfon, to fake charge of I lie district there. " The officers of the Napier branch of j | the Lands and Survey Deparlmenl met I ' on Wednesday afternoon lo farewell Mr. ! | J. H. Thompson, who is retiring after I Inns service. Mr. Marsh, Commissioner jot' Crown kinds, presented Mr. TlumipI son with a set. of liouks on behalf of his i fcllow-ollicers, and expressed the good j wishes of all: .Mr. Thompson brielly responded.

The late Colonel Stuart Newall. C.8., was buried in the Karuri Cemetery yesterday afternoon,, with full military honours. The funeral left Hunny Street, at 2.15. Tho cortege was headed by a firing party, composed of members of the R.N.Z.A., under Lieutenant Parkinson, and then followed the Trenfhain Band. Tho coffin, borne on <i gun carriage supplied by the E.N.Z.A., was draped villi the flag which the deceased had, carried with him during tho South African war, while also on the carriage were floral tributes, including a wreath from the. sloff and patients of King George V Hospital, Rolorua. The high esteem, in which Colonel Newall was 'held as a soldier was evidenced by the largo representation of t,l'e military, those present including Sir James Allen (Minister of Defence), Major-General Sir Alfrpd Robin (general officer commanding the New Zealand forces), Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson (general oliicer in charge of administration), and Brigadier-General D. 'J. Mt'lavin (director-general of the medical service). Also among (ho followers were a number of Maori war veterans, and members of St. Andrew's Church, of which the deceased was an old member. Colonel Newall was for some years in charge of King George V Hospital at Rolorua, and, at the request of Colonel Borneau, commanding officer, that institution was represented by Lieutenants K. E. Luke and Prebble, Former pationts at Rotonin. Mrs Williams, of Waihi, o daughter of the deceased, ami Mr. Williams, son-in-law, were tho chief mouners. and the pall-bearers weret'olonels Piudy, Collins, Campbell, Gardner, Standish, and Andrews. The service at Hie graveside was conducted by Chaplain-Captain S. Robertson Orr, and tho Rev. J. Gibson Smith.

Mr. John Proiise, of Wellington, has been engaged to sing in "Elijah'' by the Dunedin Choral Society on August l(i. Mr. R 51. Hasolden, at one time M.P. for Paten, but latterly of South. Africa, lield tho rank of lieutenant-colonel in the South African Forces during the war. The death occurred on Tuesday of an old resident of Kaikoura, Mr."George Eaton. Tho deceased, who was 81 years of age, arrived in Kaikoura in lS!i7, and engaged in farming 'pursuits at Kineaid Downs, where ho resided for 52 years. In the early days he followed mining operations in Victoria, .also at Gabriel's Gully. He served on the County Council for nearly 15 years, and was'keld in the highest respect by all who knew him. Mr. Robert Martin Wallis, who died in Auckland on Monday, .aged 7G, was the sou of one of New Zealand's earliest settlers, the late Rev. James Wallis, a Methodist missionary, who arrived in New Zealand' in lftit. He was born nt Waingaroa and was married in 187t to the youngest daughter of Cuptain Thomas Wing, late harbourmaster at Onehunga. Clue of his sou-, is Captain A. Wallis, of the steamer Fiona.