PERSONAL

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17282, 25 September 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL

Tho Hon G. W. Russell, Minister oi Public Health, Hospitals and Internal Affairs, arrived from Wellington on Saturday, and after attending to business in connection with . his Depart- , menta and paying a visit to" Bottlo Lake Hospital, left for Darfield. He was accompanied from Wellington by Laeutehant-Colonol * Hope Lewis, Director of Military Hospitals. The Minister returned north in the evening. >-'■

Tho Hon W. Fraser, Minister of Publio Works, will leave Auckland for* Whangarei and Kaikolie this evening* He will return to Auckland on Thurs* day, and on Saturday will leave by steamer for Gisborne and Napier.

Messrs M. Barnett and J. Spe'ght arrived from the north on Saturday.

' Sir George Clifford returned from. Wellington on Saturday. Mr J. Craigie, M.P., arrived from the north on Saturday. Mr G. W. Bovron arrived from Dunedin by the second express on Saturday.

Colonel Wolfe and Lieutenant J. P. C. Walsh arrived from Wellington on Saturday.

Passengers by the Maori from Wet lington on Saturday included Messis H. Friedlander, D. Rutherford, G. Rutherford, J. D. Ritchie and 0. H. Hewlett.

Mr A. T. Donnelly, who left. Christchurch with the Twentv-fixst Reinforcements, was on arrival at Trentham called out of the ranks and posted to the non-commissioned officers’ camp.

His Honor Mr Justice Stringer, president of the Arbitration Court, will remain in Christchurch for the greater part of the week. He will preside at a sitting of the Court at Tunaru on Friday. '

During Lance-Corporal C. J r Arnold’s visit to Lyttelton on final leave * the opportunity was taken by his old employers, Messrs D. and S. Sinclair, to present him with a wristlet watch. Lance-Corporal' Arnlod is attached to the Eighteenth Reinforcements. The Dunedin Correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times” reports thedeata, in his seventy-ninth year, of Mr J. \Y. Johnson from heart failure following chronic bronchitis and asthma. Jix Johnson was a trustee of the Dunedin Savings Bank, and a prominent Mason. Ho was oermanent secretary to the late Hon'J. A. Millar’s Dunedin West election committee.

Mr Christopher P. Gardiner, who landed in New Zealand in 1845, passed a wav at Herekino, Auckland prov inoe, last week. He was a native of Connecticut, United' States. Ho had many exciting experiences in the north in the old days when the Maoris were on the warpath. He was for some time manager of a sawmill at the Newmarket workshops, and was engaged in the milling trade most of his life. The Dunedin correspondent of the < ‘ Lyttelton Times ” telegraphs . that private advice has been received that Lieutenant John Hadden Barr has beer killed in active service in France. He was about twenty-four years of age and \ras employed in his father 6 warehouse (Paterson and Barr, hardware merchants) before he enlisted. Lieutenant Barr was a ipomber of the Dunedin Anglican Harriers. Ho showed great promise as a musicion.