PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16486, 27 February 1914, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr P. Selig returned to Christchuroh yesterday.

Captain Chapman left for Wellington last night. Dr Todd was a passenger by the Wahine for Wellington last evening. Mr and Mrs J~A~Redpath left for Wellington last night. Dr Colquhoun arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr T. G. Russell returned from Wellington yesterday. Mr R. Bell, jun., returned to Ashburton yesterday. Professor T. G. R. Blunt returned from the north yesterday. Dr Trottie arrived from the south yesterday by the Manuka. His Excellency the Governor left for Wellington on Wednesday evening. Mr G. Fenwick was a passenger from Wellington by the Wahine yesterday. The Hon It. H. Rhodes, PostmasterGeneral, left for Wellington last night. Mr T. A. Morlancl has received word that he has obtained bis B.A. degree. Captain Kirby was a passenger by the Wahine from Wellington yesterday. Mr J. H. C. Thacker, of Okain’s Bay, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. Mr S. G. Macfarlane, of Canterbury College, baa received word that he has gained first-class honours in political science. Mr Smith T. Greenwell and Mr and Mrs W. Roberts, of Sydney,, and Mr T. R. Chapman, London, are in Christchurch. Mr E. R. Waite, curator of Canterbury Museum, returned to Christchuroh last evening from a visit to Mount Cook. Mr C. H. Ensor, president of the North Canterbury Farmers’ Union, will, in all probability, visit the Panama Exhibition. A cable message from London states that the Hon T. Mackenzie has been invited to open an extension to the cold storage depots at Cardiff. Dr Bruce Stringer, son of Mr Justice Stringer, president of the Arbitration Court, has been appointed house surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London. Among the arrivals from the north yesterday morning were Mr J. H. Gorton, Mr A. R. Rowlands and Mr M. M. Carpenter, of Auckland, and Mr W. E. Esson, of Wanganui. A message from Sydney states that the Methodist Conference has decided to transfer the. Rev J. Avery from Papua to. New Zealand, designating the Rev A. H.' Scriven, of New Brighton, for Papua. Mr Faithfull-Begg. who spent nine years of his- life in ' New Zealand, and is now a stockbroker in London, has been installed Worshipful Deputy-Mas-ter of the Royal Colonial Institute Lodge of Freemasons. , > Mr J. H. .Estill, superintendent of the Port of London Authority, arrived in. Christchurch yesterday. . He will attend the quarterly meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, and will give an address to members in regard to the institution he represents. Mr Edgar Wrigley, the New Zealander, who has been playing Northern Union football for Huddersfield for the past season or two, has been transferred to Hunslet. The fee of £SOO which was paid by' the Hunslet Club for the transfer is the second highest in Northern Union history, the highest being £6OO paid by Hull to Hunslet for tho services, of William Batten. The death is reported from Feilding of Mrs Shannon, wife of Mr G. V. Shannon, who retired about five years ago from tho position of Chief Customs Expert of New Zealand. The late Mrs Shannon was known all over the dominion, as she travelled with her husband while on his official duties for a period of some twenty-one years. Mrs E. E. Peter, who died at Karori, Wellington. Inst week, was a very old'settler both in Australia and New Zealand. She came out . from England in 1849, landing in Adelaide, and, with her husband, took part in the stirring times cf the early goldfields of Australia. In. 1863 Mrs Peter arrived in Dunedin, and two years later went to Hokitika, being in the first of the rush there. Canvas tents were the usual habitation then, but Mrs Peter bad the distinction cf having had built the first lined and papered house in Hokitika. The deceased lady was in her eighty-third year.