PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor leaves Wellington in the steamer Tutanekai to-day for the Marlborough Sounds. To-morrow at 12.30, bis Excellency will unveil the Cook memorial at Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr V. J. Lamer, sharebroker, ol Auckland, is on a visit to Wellington. Mr W. R. Holmes, secretary of the Auckland Exhibition, is visiting Wellington on exhibition business. Mr A. A. Corrigan returned to Wellington from South by the Maori yesterday morning. Mr Walter McCarthy, of the firm of Ellison and Duncan, Fort Ahuriri, ;s passing through Wellington, on route to the Cold Lakes, accompanied by Mrs McCarthy. Constable Doyle, who died as the result of injuries received at Shannon, was buried yesterday afternoon af Southbridge, where his relatives reside states a Press Association telegram Several members of the local force at tended the funeral. Mr C. Creighton Hale, of Wellington, late honorary treasurer to the Now Zealand Association in London, will represent the association at the unveiling of the Cook memorial in Ship Cove to-morrow. The association contributed towards the funds raised for the memorial. Members of the Prisons Board, Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, Dr Hay, Inspector-General of Prisons and Asylums, Mr J. R. Blair, and Mr J. Kayll, secretary to the board, after inspecting the Invercargill and Dunedin prisons on Saturday morning, proceeded to Hanmer. They return to Christchurch this evening, and on Tuesday inspect the Lyttelton gaol, leaving for Wei-' lington the same night. The following candidates, in order of merit, have secured by examination the seven commissions in the New Zealand Defence Staff Corps, offered to warrant officers and sergeant-majors of the New Zealand Permanent Staff and Royal. New Zealand Artillery; Sergt.-Majors E. C. Dovey, J. M. Rose, W. Atwell, P. B. Henderson, G. T. Catto, J. C, Bishop, and T. McCristell. Regimental Sergt.-Major W. Q. Kerrish and Master-Gunner D. McDonald will receive commissions in the Royal Now Zealand Artillery. Mr W. Miller, of Gisborne, and at present in Sydney, says a Press Association telegram, in a letter to a friend in Gisbdine announcing his appointment as general manager of the Greater J. D. Williams Co., with a capital of £200,000, says: “The management has been in a state of chaos, and I have been asked to straighten matters out. The position, carries with it a seat on the board of the General Film Company, with a combined capital of half a million, and is the most coveted position in the picture world of Australia.” The Hon. W. F. Massey, now at Wellington, will visit Marton and Rangitikei later in this week. The Hon. W. Fraser leaves in a day or two for the South, and will visit his own electorate. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes left for Mount Cook and Hanmer on Saturday. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is proceeding from Greymouth to Blenheim, and will join the Tutanekai at Picton, in connection with the unveiling of the Cook memorial at Ship Cove. The Hon. H. D. Bell, K.C., will probably accompany the Tutanekai from Wellington. The Hons. W. H. Hern s. A. L. Herdman. and Dr Pomare 1 arc at Wellington. Mr Robert Newman Buttle, an old resident of the Auckland district, died at Cambridge last Friday. He was a son of the late Rev. George Buttle, and was born at the Kopua Mission Station in the King Country in 1847. The late Mr Buttle served in the militia during the Maori War in_the_ Waikato in T 863. He also saw service in the Boer War, landing at South, Africa after spending some years on the_ land in Mexico. He had four brothers in Auckland, Mr G. A. Buttle, of the Stock Exchange, Mr James Buttle, manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company. and Messrs W. D. and B. W. Buttle. His death was due to a paralytic stroke—the third within a year or so. Ho leaves a widow. The late Mr James Hanratty, who 1 was accidentally killed in a lift at Messrs E. W. Mills and Co.’a premises!, was a native of Castleblayney, Ireland, and came to the Dominion thirty years ago. He resided in Auckland and Napier during,the first five years, and ultimately came to Wellington, where ho had since resided. He entered the service of Messrs E. W. Mills and Co. twenty-five years ago, and _ remained with the firm up to the time of his death. A requiem service was held at the Basilica, Hill street, on Friday prior to the funeral, which was largely attended. Many expressions of sym- . pathy were received by the relatives in the shape of beautiful floral tributes, among them being glass-case wreaths from the firm and staff of Messrs E. W. Mills and Co., Joseph Nathan and Co., letter-carriers and accountants' branch, G.P.0., the Wadcstown Club, and the staff ard pupils of the Wadestown. school. The late Mr Hanratty, whose father still survives in Ireland, aged eighty years, leaves a widow, three sons, and one daughter.