PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor returns to Wellington from his visit to the Marlborough Sounds to-morrow evening. Lord Liverpool leaves Wellington on Thursday to attend the Dannevirke show. On Saturday next at 4 p.m. Lord and Lady Liverpool will give a garden party in Government House grounds, Wellington. Mr Charles Hall, ex-M.P. for Waipawa, arrived in Wellington by last evening’s Hawke’s Bay express. Mr A. E. Jull, chairman of the Napier Harbour Board, is on a visit to Wellington. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman yesterday admitted Mr W. Sim as a barrister of the Supreme Court on the motion of Mr F. G. Dalziell. Mr Don Mearns, well known in the Wellington district, had one of his legs badly broken and knocked about m an accident, and is now in the Dunedin Hospital. Mr W. Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Association, left Wellington last evening for Dunedin, to attend a sitting of the Arbitration Court. Mr H. W. Northoroft, ei-S.M., the recently-appointed Commissioner at the Cook Islands, will probably leave for Rarotonga by the Moana on February 28th. The Prime Minister has informed Mr H. Okey, M.P., that he proposes to spend a week in Taranaki, probably luring April, and that if engagements vviU permit the Hon. W. Fraser, Mmister of Public Works, will accompany him. Mr B. Opie, the champion runner of Canterbury, is at present on a holiday visit to Auckland. For three or four months past Mr Opio has been suffering from heart-strain, and, acting on medical advice, will not compete at the New Zealand championship meeting to be held in Wellington. Mr Robert Jordon, who was formerly on the staff of the Wellington wireless telegraphy station and later accepted a Government position at Melbourne, has recently been transferred to Port Moresby, New Guinea, where he is also engaged in wireless telegraphy work. The Bov. A. Macdonald Aspland, chairman of the Congregational Union, left Wellington last night for Timaru to attend the annual union conference. The Rev. J. Reed Glasson, with Messrs F. Meadowcroft and A. Lewis, who will represent the Terrace Congregational Church, will go south to-night. Mr A. Carr, manager of the Government poultry farm at Milton for about eight years past, who has been appointed one of the city meat inspectors at Wellington, prior to his departure was entertained at a farewell social, at which some sixty gentlemen were present, the Mayor (Mr C. King) presiding. Mr John Burridge died at Napier on Saturday, aged fifty-eight years. Ho was a native of Dorsetshire, and arrived in New ; Zealand thirty-two years ago. He filled the position of managing steward of the Hawke’s Bay Club for a long period, and was subsequently licensee of the Empire Hotel. Since his retirement from the latter he has been living quietly at Meanee, near Napier. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr D. McLaren, intends to be present at the unveiling of the Cook memorial at Ship Cove to-day. He will spend tomorrow in Blenheim attending _ a garden fete, in order to make inquiries in respect to tlhe methods adopted by the committee, as ho understands they should he helpful to the Easter Carnival executive bore. Inq Mayor will be accompanied by Mr J. Mcßean, the carnival secretary. They will be tack in Wellington to-morrow m Miss Harriet C. Newoomh, honorary secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Women voters’ Association (London), now in Sydney, wiU visit Auckland on February 16th and Wellington on the 28th, Mms Newoomb will bo accompanied by Miss Margaret Hodge, and lectures will be delivered by both ladies during their tour in the Dominion on the aims and work of the association. The main object of the ladies’ visit to the Australasian colonies is to secure representation for the gentler sex at the seventh biennial oongress of the International Women a Suffrage Alliance to he held in June in Buda-Pesth. The Wellington Education Board has made the following appointments i Akatarawa, Miss F. Bodell, solo teacher; Carterton District High School, first assistant Miss M. K. Wilson, and second assistant Mr J. Marwick ; Petone District High School, assistant Mr J. Stephens; South Wellington, assistant Miss E. Haigh; Levin, assistant, Mr J. E. Mills; Te Aro, assistants, Mr O. Taylor and Miss N. Coad; Maranui, assistant, Mr F. Gaze j Tane, sole teacher, Miss B. Wickena; Muritai, assistant, Miss Magill; Nireaha, assistant. Miss R. Wilton; Newtown, assistant, Miss K. F. Kerr{ Hutt, assistant, Miss J. G. Park. An old and sturdy French colonist passed away on (Saturday in Christchurch in the person of Mr Peter Maltuanche. He, with his parents, Mr and Mrs Francois Malmanche, arrived in Akaroa in the Compte de Paris in 1840. Subsequently Mr Peter Malmanche took up a cheesemaking business at Little River, till failing health compelled him to retire, when he made his home with his daughter, Mrs Topping, of Ferry road. Ho was the eldest brother of the late Madame Lelievre.'of Akaroa, and of Mrs B. A. Loughnan, of Wellington. He leaves behind him one son and four daughters, twenty-four grandchildren and twenty-seven childrenThe Hon. H. D. Bell leaves for Ship Cove with the’Mararoa this morning to attend the ceremony of unveiling the Cook memorial. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher will travel from Blenheim, also to attend this ceremony. The Hon. W. F. Massey leaves for Marton on Wednesday. The Hon. W. Fraser leaves for Invercargill and Otago districts on Wednesday night, and expects to be absent from Wellington till the end of this month. He then proceeds to Gisborne and North of Auckland. A subsequent visit to the West Coast will conclude Mr Fraser’s recessional programme of travel. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes is at Mount Cook, and the Hon. W. H. Henries arrived at New Plymouth from Wellington last night. He ii making an inspection of railway line* cf the Dominion, and will return hers about the end of the week. The Hon, D. Pomare will leave for Wanganui about Friday next. The Hon. A. L. Herdman is at Wellington, the date for resumption of his inspection of prisons being still uncertain.