PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Dr Morioe, of Greymouth, is on & visit to Wellington, and is staying with Mrs Scddon. The Hon. J. A. Millar has bought a 'residential property at Remuera, Auckland. Dr Cameron intends to leave Wellington very shortly on a six-months’ visit to England. Air G. W. Bussell, M.P. for Avon, is on a visit to Wellington on business, and returns immediately to Taupo. The Hon. Mr and Mrs Ogilvio Granl will be passengers from Wellington for ..yduey by the Manuka on Friday. Mr E. J. Hyams has booked to leave Auckland on the 14th instant for Van ,iver, on route to London. Mr James McLean, inspector of the National Bank, leaves Wellington on May by the Manuka for Sydney, er route to Europe and the Old Country Mr T. Buxton, M.P., and Mrs Buxton are passengers by the Manuka, leaving Wellington on Friday, on their v to London. Mr A. Macintosh, a member of the Public Trust Commission, will leave for Sydney on Friday next, and will be absent till the end of this month. The Hon. W. D. Johnson, Minister of Public Works, West Australia, arrived in Wellington last night by the New Plymouth express, and -is staying at the Hotel Arcadia. The Hon. W. H. Herries leaves this morning on a visit to the Manawatu, district, and will return before the end of the week. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is on the West Coast. All other Cabinet Ministers axe in Wellington. Mr James Gill has arrived in Wellington from London via Sydney to take up the position of New Zealand representative and inspector of tho Marconi International Marine Company, Ltd., which has its head office at Marooni House, Strand, London. Sir James Mills, accompanied by his daughter (Mrs Bcswick, of Christchurch), left Dunedin on Sunday for Milford Sound. They will proceed by motor to Invercargill; thence by Moeraki from Bluff to Milford Sound, and will return by the McKinnon Pass track to Te Anau. Mr A. G. Millington, 'who has been acting agent for the New Zealand Government in Sydney, arrives in Wellington by the Warrimoo to-day. Ho has been relieving the New Zealand Government agent while the latter was absent in the Dominion on leave. Hr Millington is accompanied by his wife. Mr Darley, of New South Wales, one of the foremost river experts in Australasia, is coming to Now Zealand at tho request of tho Greymouth Harbour Board to report on the proposal for a deep-sea harbour at Greymouth. Mr R. W. Holmes, Public Works Engi-neer-in-Chief, will meet Mr Darley at Wellington and accompany him to Greymouth. Mr J. W. Collins, of the Labour Department, to whom has been deputed by the Government the task of inquiring into the shortage of labour in manufacturing industries, has completed hia investigations in Wellington. Last night ho went South to pursue his inquiries in Christchurch, Dunedin, and other centres. Auckland will bo visited later. A Press Association message from Melbourne states that the following are among the Marmora’s New Zealand passengers Misses Stubbs, Johnson, Nathan (2), Dormer, and Masfarlane (2), Mesdames Bray, Macalpine, Stubbs, Nathan and 2 children, Donner, Macfarlane and . child, Messrs Bray, Duck, Garde, Brown, Miller, MoAlpine, Stubbs, Macfarlane, amd Captain Hatton. News is to hand of tho death in London of Mr W. J. Farrell, tho wellknown mining investor, who so successfully floated the Mace town and other reefs and mining properties on the London market. The older generation, especially those engaged in commerce on the goldfields, will (says the “Alexandra Herald”) remember Mr Farrell as a very successful pioneer commercial traveller with a very handsome flowing black beard and an engaging personality and manner. Mrs Forsyth, who was accidentally drowned at Rotorua last week, was the wife of Mr H. S. Forsyth, manager of the Dudley Colliery, near Newcastle, New South Wales. “ Both Mr Forsyth and his late wige are well known in New South Wales,” says the “Sydney Morning Herald.” “ Prior to her marriage Mrs Forsyth was a Miss Ycend, tho daughter of one of Sydney’s most prominent sportsmen. Mrs Forsyth was a splendid horsewoman, and intensely devoted to horses. Her death caused a heavy shock to her many Sydney friends.” Mrs Forsyth made occasional trips to England specially for the hunting season. Mr Samuel Calvert, tho first wood engraver in Australia, died in London recently, aged eighty-four years. Ha had lived in the colonies for sixty-five years. Mr Calvert arrived in 1847 at Adelaide, where he started business as artist and wood engraver. Remaining there two years he then went to Melbourne in 1849, and started a printing business in connection with his brother, Mr William Calvort. His principal work was in connection with the illustrated papers of Melbourne, viz., tho “ Melbourne Post,” and afterwards tho “ Illustrated Australian News,” then published by the “ Age ” proprietary. Ho was also the publisher of many illustrated monthly and weekly papers. Hia father, Mr Edward Calvert, was a well-known London, artist. Mr S. Calvert was one of the original founders of tho Victorian Academy of Arts, now the Victorian Artists’ Society.