PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2939, 27 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

■' , * • Vice-Regal. Their Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool and suite will leave for Christ-church to-night, and will remain for some weeks. Until "Elwood," belonging to Mr. R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P., is ready, they will occupy Mr. Arthur Rhodes's residence. Tlie Rev. Father Cullen, who was ordained priest yesterday, is a son of Mr. F. Cullen, of Konini Boad, Hataitai. He is the third son to take Holy Orders, two of his brothers being on the staff of St. Patrick's College. The fourth son, Sergeant T. Cullen, is serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The death is announced of Mrs. Anne Maguire, which ocourred on Friday last iu her 60th year. The late' Mrs. Maguire was a daughter of the late Mr. Sims, of Devouport, Auckland, and arrived in Wellington with her husband, the late Mr. Allen Maguire, many years ago. The late Mrs. Maguiro has left two children, a son, Dr. Maguire, who is in France, and a daughter, Mrs. Len M'Kenzie. The funeral will leave the residence, Dufferin Street, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. A. Rhodes-Williams, who has for the past seven-years occupied the position of stationmaster at Port Napier, is receiving promotion, and will fill the position of relieving officer for the Welhngton-Napier-Manawatu districts, with headquarters at "Wellington. Mr. Joseph Bicknell, of Puketapu, Napier, died on Thursday at the age of sixty-three years. Ho was born at the Hutt, Wellington, in the year 1853, and was the son of Mr. John Bicknell, an old settler, who arrived in Now Zealand in the late "forties." Mr. Bicknell was a director of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association, steward of the Napier Park Racing club, chairman of the Puketapu branoh of the Farmers' Union, and a member of the Hawke's Bay A. and P. Society. Mr. Andrew Deer, of Sydney, who has been lecturing on the science of business, arrived by yesterday's oxpress from Auckland. Detective-Sergeant M'llveney, -who has been stationed in Wellington for the past five years, left on Friday for Christ-church, to which town he haa been transferred.