PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

■.■■■■ c Tho Commissioner of Polioe- (Mr. Dinnit 1 ) 'left i'or Duiwdin on Saturday. A Press Association mvssagu from Chri.sti'hurcli reports tho death tjf Mis. liairell, who arrived at Lyltullun in 1855. Mr. Seiklon is much bottvr. Ho was ablo to go tiding on Nat 111 day afternoon, lie hopes to be ablo to leave fi>r thu South to-night. Lieut. -Colonel Hume, who has been inspecting tin* prisons on the West Coast (South Inland), returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr. J. W. Brown, who hn.s been Registrar of (he Native Land Court in Aucl,laml for nome yearn, h.ia boon pioiuolcd, }o a Native Land Com t JuJge.slup. Tho Noiliw Hoalth Ollirer (Dr. Pom.ire) ha.i returned to Wellington from an inspection of several Maori sottleim-nts in the Iv.fea disliiet. Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.H.R., has I been informed by cablegram fiom Scot- ' land of the death of his brother ami sister, who died within a short timo of each other. Mr. Davis, of the loc.U Customs staff, received a presentation from his fellow•landing waiters on the evu of his mar- ' riagt*. Tim presentation w.is mado by the Collector of Customs, Mr. D. Johnston. All the members of the Cabinet aro now in Wellington with the exception of tho Hon. W. llnll-Jonos, who in in the Auckland district, and the Hon. J. M 'Cowan, who left for tho Thames this morning. Mr. Arthur Wycherloy, of Mr. Otoigc Denton's staff, who is le;i\ing on B»torday next on a visit to Groat Britain, has been presented by the firm airl his fellow-workers with a bicycle for tou':ng purposes during his 'holiduy in the Old Country. Mr. F. W. Mansfield, who has been commK»ioned to tour tho colony and give instructions to tho various Registrars of Electors as to his improved system of preparing the electoral rolls, has returned to Wellington from tho South Island. Ho has now visited overy elec lorato in tho colony with tho exception of those in Nolson, Marlborough, and Wcstland. Mr. John Evans, late chief clerk in Iho Police Department, who has retired from tho Force, was presented with a purse of sovereigns subscribed by tho police throughout tho colony. The presentation was mado by Inspector Ellison, who eulogised the good work done by Mr. Evans during his connection of over twenty years with tho department. Mr. Evans's retirement was necessitated by ill-health. Mrs. Harrison Lee, tho Australian Temperance advocato, who is ut present on her second No-license campaign on behalf of the Now Zealand Alliance, has been received with enthusiasm by large audiences ot nil her lectures in the colony. So fni she lian visited tho Forty-mile Bush district, the Wnirnrnpa. Palmerslon North, and other parts of tho Mrmawatu and Wellington country, Petone and Nelson, and at present she is lourim; tho West Con*»t of the South Island. Mrs. Leo is to speak in Wellington nnd Newt own in a few weeks' time. The death occurred nt Palmerston North yesterday of Mr. James Carroll, j who had been a Bottler in Palmoislon | since 1878. Deceased, who was 72 yea is of age, wa« formerly in the police force. Ho received (sayH our correspondent) tho rank of sergeant for his efforts in recovering tho gold stolen at Mangalupu, and was awarded the Royal Ilumnno Society's medal for saving 300 lives on boHrd the ship Surat, which was wrecked at Cat tin's Boach. Ho wus many yenrs proprietor of the Clarendon Hotel at Pnlnierston. He owns a largo amount ' of property in that town. 1 A circular has been issued by Bishop Grimes to his clergy, announcing 'tho , death of the Rev. Anthony Martin, Ku- j perior-Qeneral of tho Society of Mary. The circular refers to the expulsion by the Fiench Government of tho Fathers of this Society from their diocesan seinin- [ arm, the closing of most of I heir colleges, ! missionary residences, and private chapels, and confiscation of their property. At this critical juncture, it is stated, "their belovod Superior-General has been icmoved by denth. Moro than fifty years ago tho Rev. Anthony Martin ontoml the Society of Mnry, and nfter fulfilling the functions of Professor, Superior, Provin-. cial, and Vicar-Genornl, nineteen years ago ho was elected to the office of Supe-rior-General. In the discharge of his varied duties he wns always remarkable for hid deep lonrnincc, enlightened piety, and nhle, ypt fatherly administration. A solemn requiem mnsi will be sunß for tho deceased in the Cathedral, Christchurch, next Thursday. On Saturday tho death occurred of Mr. Charles Pressman, otherwise known as "tho hermit of Piniten Point." Hn ! was a long-established rwvidont of Wol | 1 big ton, having arrived here from the Australian diggings about 1860. He was 80 years of ago at timo of death. In partnership wiiu the lato Mr. Goorg* Tandy ho was for many year* a master lighterman in Wrflinßton Harbour, in which ospacity he lightered to Peneajt row the timbor for the lighthouse, there erected. Ho was a halo man until wel' advanced in years, and until he had turned 78 he worked on the Quoon'n Wharf, residing at Pipitea Point in his old craft "Maori," which he had boaeh od on tho shore and turned into a cabin reminiscent of tho homo of Peggotty, as described by Charles Dickens. About four yoars ago deceased met with an accident ot a railway crossing, and the doctors thon gavo small hope of his life, but ho recovered in comparatively short lime, and pottered about hia soasido homo until last Wednesday, when ho took to his bed. Death was tho result ol old ago.