PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 101, 26 October 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

- Professor H. B. Kirk, of Victoria College, leaves on Saturday on a trip to Engla*nd. At Christchurch yesterday Miss Maude Jeft'enes, leading lady in the Williamson Dramatic Company, was manied to Mr. J. B. N Osborne, of New South Wales. On the Trustees of the Benevolent Institution meeting yesterday, a resolution was ordered to be recorded on the minutes expressing sympathy with tho Chairman (Mr. C. H. fzard) on the death of his father, the late Mr. C. B. Izard. Mr. Harold Ashton, advance agent of Mr. J. C. Williamson's Dramatic Company, headed by Mr. Julius Knight and Miss Maud Jeffries, passed through Wellington yesterday on his way north. Tho company is now in Christchurch. Mr. Charles Schultz, accountant in the Melbourne branch of the A.M.P. Society, ljas> been promoted to be Resident Secretary at Adelaide. Mr. F. F. Schultz, accountant in the Wellington branch, leaves shortly fop Melbourne to fill the office recently held by his brother. . Last evening Mr. J. N. Thompson, who has been in the employment of Messrs. R. Hannah and Co. for some fifteen years, and who is now severing his connection with that 'firm to enter into business on his own account, received a presentation from his fellow employees. The applications for the position of extra pilot at Wellington have been conBidered by the Harbour Board, and, although no announcement has been made, it is generally understood that the position has been offered to Mr. Hayward, chief officer of the Union Co. steamer Herald. This afternoon, at St. Mark's Church, Mr. E .Scott Innes, second son of the late Mr. Francis Innes, of Auckland, was married to MiBS Ada Webb, eldest daughter of Mr. P. Purvis Webb, Chief Audit Inspector for the colony. The marriage ceremony was conducted by the Rev. K. Coffey. The bridesmaids were Misses Doris and Amy Webb, sisters of the bride, and Miss Olive Mills. Mr. H,. S. Innes, brother of the bridegroom, was best man, and Mr. J. M. Mowbray groomsman. After the ceremony the parents of the bride held a reception at their home in Crosby-terrace. The funeral of the late Mr. Samuel Parsons, which took place this morning, was very largely attended, as might be expected in the case of one who was the son of a popular family, and a popular member of the community himself. Before prooeeding to, Karori Cemetery a choral service was held in St. Paul's pro-Cathedral, the deceased having been at one time a member of the Cathedral Choir. The Rev. T. H. Sprott conducted the service, also that at the graveside. The Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society, of which Mr. Parsons had long been a member, was strongly represented. The pall-bearers {were Messrs. W. Letham, W. Wilson, W. E. A. Gjll, and T. Sutherland.