PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. J./11. Upton, of Auckland, who succeeds Mr. ,T. .M. Johnston on the directorate of the Bank of New Zealand, is a native of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, where lie was born in 1845. He arrived in New Zealand in 1800. Mr. Upton has been Mayor of Auckland, chairman of the Education Board. City Sinking Fund Commissioner, director of the South British Insurance Company, (las Company, Northern' Steamship Company, Hikurangi Coal Company and Auckland Savings Bank. Mr. C. •!. Parr has consented to stand for a third term as Mayor of Auckland. Mr. Kwei Chili has left London to take up the position of Chinese Consul in New Zealand, lie has been acting as second secretary at the Legation in London. Mr. David Hudson, senr., who died recently at Warepa, was in his ninetysecond year. He was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland, in the year 1821, and came to New Zealand in 1857, arriving in Wellington, where he stayed for a year or so. lie then went south as far as Christchurch and Timaru. lie went to the Clutha about 180!), and on arrival there took up a farm, which he held till his death. The death of Captain Peters in London recalls an important event in the history of Wanganui—the arrival of the first direct Home boat (says the Wanganui Chronicle). Old residents will remember vividly the morning in January, 1872, when the barque Malay was towed over the bar by the steamer Wanganui and up the river to Taylor and Watts' wharf. The occasion was a memorable one. While not bv any means the largest of the company's fleet, it was deemed that a big risk was being run in sending such a large vessel here, and this was the reason why Captain Peters was in command. The Malay, whose tonnage was 3(io, was drawing 12ft 4in. and was berthed at the wharf without difficulty. After the cargo, which was consigned to V -ssi's Taylor and Watt and Duthic and Co.. bad been discharged she loaded wool for London, the loading being completed while the Malay was lying in the stream below Liindguard Bluff. While Captain Peters was here he handed over the command of the vessel to Captain Richard Todd, now of Napier, and superintendent of the Tyser Line. Captain Peters went Home on a larger vessel, flu 1 Helen Denny, from Lvttelton. Captain Todd brought the Malay out on her second trip the following year.