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CONCERNING PEOPLE..
Hte Excellency the Governor and Lady
Galway entertained Mr. and Mrs. Barr
Smith, Dr. and Mrs. O'Leary, Dr. and Mrs.
Good, Major and 'Mrs. Logan, Dr. Giles,
Professor Darnley Naylpr, Miss Peacock,
Mifis.K.. Thomas, and Major Loch, at dinner
at Government House on ? Thursday.
The Governor's attention was on Fri
day drawn to the report of the
annual meeting of the S.P.C.A., and his
Private Secretary (Mr. Legh Winser) sub
sequently announced that a mistaken idea
was apparently entertained in some quar
ters regarding Sir Henry's attendance at
the several societies' annual meetings.
His Excellency would be .very pleased
from time to time to preside at
the annual meetings of the leading socie
ties, institutions, and so on, but did not
wish it to be taken for granted that he
would preside at all such meetings every
year..
Tlie Commonweal Qi Statistician (Mr. G.
H. Knibbs) will on Sunday en'ter upon the
58th year of his age. He 'was born and
educated 'a't Sydney. lAIier having been tn
turn 'ori' 'the 'sbaff of the Survey Office oi
New South Wales, a lecturer in engineer
ing, geodesy, a&'tronomy, and hydraulics,
and Aching 'Professor of Physics at the .Syd
ney Umyen?jty, and Director of Technical
Edueaittbjvfor ;that State, he was, in 1908,
appointed to his .present position.
The passengers bound for London by
the R.M,S. Osterley, which sailed -on Fii
day, included Col. the Hon. Rupert
Caringtqn, whose son, Rupert, is a lieu
tenanc in the 5th Dragoon Guards; Mt.
Harold Bridges, a younger brother of the
late Gen. Bridges, who died of injuries sus
tained dn action at the Dardanelles; Capt.
and Mrs. Cairns, of Now South Wales;
Lieut. Grove, R.N., of Sydney; Comman
der Talon, from Noumea: and Mr. G.
T. Bbussez, sub-CTanager of the French
Bank in Sydney.
The friends of Mr. H. J. Penno, Past
Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Institu
tion of South Australia, and present Chair
man -of the- Grand Lodge committee, who
recently -went to Broken Hill to recuperate,
will regret to learn that he has been in ill
health. He ia now recovering.
Mr. George Chamier, M.I.C.E., whose
death is reported from Shanghai (China),
was at one time well-known in Adelaide.
He was seized with an attack of apoplexy
while on a steamer, and died the follow-
ing day (April 25) in bbe . hospital. De
ceased, ivho for many yeare practised ]ii*
profession in this State, was born in Eng
land in 1842. He was a rkin of t-iic Rev.
William Chnmier, who, after havinsr been
connected with the lndia.n Public Service,
was chaplain to the British Embassy in
Paris. Daniel Chamier, from 'whom. Uk
family descended, was a notary of France,
and drew up the Edict of Nantes. On
the English side the Ohaaniers are iargely
represented in tlie civil, navy, and army
lists, and some Jiave been prominent in
literature. The late Mr. George Charaier
himseli! ?wrote, among other works, an in
teresting book entitled 'Gentleman Dick.'
He had wide experience as a civil engineer.
Aifter having kf i England, he was in New
Zealand, Tasmania, and Western Austra
lia, whore ihe took a part in railway con
struction. ' l*oth in Adelaide and Sydney
he. practised for same time as a consulting
engineer. Among other undertakings in
this State, he was engineer of the original
railway to the Grange, designed tlie Patn
?walonga Dam. and was the engineer and
promoter of the old Parkside Tramway
Company (in wihieh he introduced the Bel
gian system of one-horse trams). His
greatest work in South AustraN'a, 'however,
was the dry excavation of U:e big dock at
Port Adelaide. Owing to the soakage it
was contended by other engineers that thy
undertaking could not bo successfully
executed,. but, employing picks, aud shovels
and dray teams, and two , centrifugal
pumps, Mr. Ohamisr triumphed. In Chin.i
he was inspector of steel manufactures at
Hangyang, on behalf of several of the lead
ing railways. He married Miss Gardiner
— wiho was a sister of Mrs. Henry Dean, of
Adelaide— and he hae left a daughter ami
a son (Lieut. C. Chamier), who is serving
as a transport officer at the iront witih tlie
Bedfordshire?.
Mr. Albert Battye, one of the pioneers
of the Encounter Bay district, whose
strenuous activity made him at one time a
conspicuous and commanding figure in
most of the public affairs of that portion
of South Australia, is seriously ill at Vic
tor Harbour. He was born at Holmforth,
Yorkshire, England, in 1852, and -was edu
cated at Holmforth Grammar School. At
the close of his school days he entered into
the woolen manufacturing trade in York
shire. Coming to this province in 1871,
he established himself as a farmer in the
Encounter Bay district, and in addition be
gan business as a carrier. Later he
opened a general store, which is now con-
trolled by a son. So successful was Mr.
Battye as a business man that he soon won
the enviable reputation of being the lead
ing merchant in the district. His farming
operations at Encounter Bay also became
greatly extended, so that his energies had
abundant scope for exercise. Mr. Battye's
interests in local affairs have been cons ider-
able. He has been President of the Vic
tor Harbour Institute. He was also the
first President of the rifle club formed in
that township. Mr. Battye is a promi
nent member of the Masonic Order, hav
ing been connected with the Corinthian
Lodge for many years; and for nine years
he was a member of the local district
council. He was married in 1881, and his
wife died in 1906, leaving a family of two
daughters and three sons.
Probate has been granted of the will of
tlie late Lieut.-Ool. George Frederick
Lraund. M.L.A.. of 'New SouUi Wales, wno
was killed at tlie Dardanelles on May 8.
Testator bequeathed £100 bo each of h;s
children, and his real estate and the resi
due of his personal es'taie in a trust for
his widow and 'children. The net value
cf the rotate has been sworn at £4,211.
Mi?s Florence Fitzgerald (Mrs. Follen
Bishop) an artist who is now well known
in South Australia, has again a picture on
the line in the Roval Academy of this year.
She has repeatedly exhibited there, and
also at the other leading exhibitions in Ivisi
land &he is a member of t.'no Royal Bn
t'Vn Colonkil Society of Artiste, a distinc
tion shared by only two oth?r '.idieH and
she also belongs to t'ne Liverpool Academy
of Arts. Her work is woll known in Aus
tralia, und also in the old country, no: oniy
throuih the- medium of the originals, but
by tlfe publication oL numerous reproduc
tions.
Mr. E. Williams (Grand Treasurer of
the Loyal Orange Institution o; bi-u:Ii
Australia) recently left Adelaide on a pro
tracted visit to Port Piric.
Mr. H. C. Urquhart, B.S\. a graduate
of the MclbouniP University, havias cm
pleted a couree 'in c'kimi&ry and physics,
and having specialized for some time in me
tallurgy. kiled by the R.M.S. Osterley
for London. He is one of the nominees
of the Council of the Melbourne Lnmr
sity for the three free passages granted an
nually by the Orient line. He purposes
to make a further study of metallurgy a't
the National Physical Laboratory, Lon
don.
Inspector Oode, of Port Augusta, who
will sever his connection with the police
force at the end of tlie month, was the sub
ject of eulogies from .members of the local
Licensing Bencli last week. Reference waG
made to the assistance the polios oflicer
had always given the Bench, and to the
courteous manner in which he had per
formed his duties during the past 12
years.
It is just 50 years since Abraham Lin
cc3n, the great American, President, was
assassinated. 'Many rulers of more splendid
intellect and of cultivation incomparably
superior have directed the affairs of great
States on both sides of the Atlantic' (says
The Times). 'None has accomplished a
mightier work in the annals of human pro
gress; none is enshrined more surely for
all time dn the grateful memory of his
countrymen, and of all to ?whom dear in
sight and dauntless courage, in the un
swerving service of conscience and of duty,
are among the most exatfed o'ojeots of re;
verence and of love. Lincoln is one of
the patron eaints of democracy, at least to
all democrats born of the same blood. He
eared the American Union, with all ite
heritage of oM traditions and of progres
sive ideals, in 'the hour of its most deadly
peitJ.'
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