PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8349, 8 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Lord and Lady Liverpool leave Wellington on Monday in the Tutanokai for the Marlborough Sounds. On Tuesday his Excellency will unveil the Captain Cook memorial at Ship Cove. T heir Excellencies subsequently visit Picton and Blenheim, returning to on Wednesday evening. Mrs Alex. Alison, wife of the mana* ger of the Devonport Ferry Company, Auckland, died on Thursday night. , Dr. Jas. Garfield Mitchell, of the Dunedin Hospital, has accepted the position Of house surgeon of the Gisborne Hospital. Miss Eva Culverwcll, in charge of the reference library at the Dunedin Free Public Library, has been appointed librarian at Timaru. Captain J. Gecre-Watson, of tho Komata, accompanied by Mrs Watson, left Wellington last night for Auckland to catch the Mahono en route lor a holiday trip to Brisbane. Mr Robert McNab intends being present at tho unveiling ceremony in connection with the Cook ■ Memorial at Ship Cove next Tuesday. _ In the evening ho will give, a public lecture at Picton on “ Early New Zealand.” The Hon. E. Mitchelson leaves Auckland on March 14th, by the Moldavia, for England. He will visit the Continent and will then return by way of Canada to New ealand, arriving back in November or December. The Hon. W. D. Johnson, Minister of Public Works iu the West Australian Government, who has been on » holiday visit to New Zealand since the beginning of the year, left for Sydney yesterday, on his return home, accompanied by Mrs Johnson and family. The Commandant, of the Forces, Major-General Godley, intends visiting England at an early date, to take part, in the summer and autumn army manoeuvres, and alto to confer with the Imperial authorities on tho question of Empire defence. Mr C. H. Howorth, engineer to lie Wanganui Harbour Board, accompanied by Mr 0. R. Howorth, of the engineer ing staff of the Wellington Harbour Board, left yesterday afternoon by the Manuka for Sydney, en route to Europe on a visit. ! The Easter Carnival executive has received a letter from Government House expressing the regret of Lord and Lady Liverpool that absence from Wellington at Easter will prevent their being present at the carnival. Their Excellencies, however, accede to th« request to give their patronage to ths function. Official notification has been given of the appointment of Mr E. T. U. Downard, Government Insurance Department (Auckland branch), as registrar of staff, also the appointment of Mr P. Verschaffelt, F.1.A., Lands Department, Wellington, as accounts clerk in the office of the Public Service Commissioner. BoAi officers have already entered upon their new duties. . ‘ ■; Cable advice has been received in Auckland that Dr. Peter McNab is to come out fo New Zealand as surgepu,' on the Union Company’s now lihc-r Niagara. Dr; McNab, who receive;! his early training at the Auckland Grammar School, went thence to the medical colleges at Edinburgh. Decently he has occupied the position of senior surgeon at the Royal Albert Hospital, Devonport, England. Mr John Neill, for the past twentyeight years secretary to the Southland , Education Board in Invercargill, yesterday tendered his resignation (states a Press Association message). Mr Neill has been for forty-one years connected with education in Now Zealand, and prior to becoming secretary of .the board was a member of tho teaching profession. Members of tho board made very complimentary references to Mr Neill’s long and faithful service, and decided to grant him leave of absence to the end of the year as from tho Ist of April. Mr O. J. W. Napier, 8.A., arrived • from England this week to take up duties as science master of Christ’s College,' Christchurch. Before going to Cambridge Mr Napier spent three terms at a German university, specialising in science and acquiring the language. At Christ’s College (Cambridge), in 1908, he took his B.A. degree, and subsequently did advanced science work. Just before leaving Eng. land he put in three weeks’ study of the methods of teaching science adopted at Clifton College, from which Institution Mr Belcher, the new headmaster of Christ’s pollego, comes. The Hon. H.. D. Bell, K.C., will probably accompany his Excellency the Governor on the cruise of the Tutanokai in connection with the unveiling. of tho Cook memorial at Ship Cove; next Tuesday. The Hon. F, M. 8,. Fisher, who leaves Westport to-day for Blenheim via Nelson and PiCton, may also join the vioe-Begal party at Pioton, and he is expected back at Wellington about Wednesday next. The Hon. W. H. Herries returned from Palmerston last night. The Hon Dr. Pomaro, now at Wellington, will leave for, Wanganui at the end of next week. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes leaves for south this evening. The Hons. W. F. Massey and A. L. Herdman are at Wellington. . Dr Paget was unfortunate enough, while riding at the Hawera races, to break his left collar-bone, and get a nasty shaking (says the “Stratford Post”). The accident happened through another horse falling in front of hia mount. His injuries were attended to by Dr. McDiarmid, and ho returned to Stratford by the mail train last evening. The accident occurred in tho Mere Mere Hack Race, about threa furlongs from the finish, when Tree Lucerne fell and Lucerne and Lady Gordon a moment later came down also. Both the jockeys, McDonald and O’Shea, received a bad shaking, the latter receiving injuries to his head which made his removal to Hawera Hospital advisable. Mr David Hudson, senr., who died on Sunday at Warepa, was 'in his ninety-second year, having been born in Kincardineshire, Scotland, in the year 1821. He came to the colony in 1867, arriving in Wellington, where he stayed for a year or so, afterwards going south as far as Christchurch and Timaru. He went to the Clutha about 1869, and on arrival there took up a farm, which he held till his death. During the diggings he, along with others, felt (says the “Clutha Leader”) the lure of the yellow metal, and tried his luck with some degree of good fortune at Gabriel’s and other rushes. He returned to his farm, however, and settled down, residing there ever since, and continuing hale and hearty until within a few weekd of, his~dcath.