PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 18 December 1905, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Sir Joseph Ward went to Christchurch on Saturday night on departmental business. Major Nelson George, of Auckland, returned from" London to-day by the Tbngariro. The Native Minister .(Hon. J. Carroll) left for the South on Saturday. He wepects to be back to-morrow. Captain Rose, formerly manager of the ■ New Zealand Shipping Company at Wellington, arrived from London to-day by fhe Tongariro on his way to Auckland. . The Premier and Sir Joseph Ward, who left for Christchurch on Saturday night, are expected back in Wellington Jo-morrow Mr. T. E. Donne, Superintendent of llie Tourist Department, and one of the Commissioners of the New Zealand Exhibition left for Christchurch on Saturday. Mr. S. Clarke Johnson, of the head- ' quarters' slaff of the New Zealand Loan Mid Mercantile Co., who has been on ft 6our of England and the Continent, relumed to Wellington by the Tongariro. Prior to his departure for Sydney on Saturday afternoon, Mr. F. Beecher, who has been a member of the Central Mission Band almost from its inception, received n presentation from the members of the !wnd. Mr. A. R. Kennedy, of the Colonial Secretary's Department, who is to be married at Muritai oh Wednesday to Miss Wills, daughter of Mr. I< rank Wills; was presented on Saturday oy j the officers of his department with a | ivedding gift. The death, at Auckland, of th« Very RsY-' Dean Foiey, S.M., is announced. Dean Foley laboured for many years m ; Canterbury antl on the W#st toast cf ; the South Island: The deceased j>rwst took a leading part in raising funds for the Cathedral which was opeued in "hristchurch a fsw months ago. " Mr Harold Ashton, who had been managing the New Zealand tour of the Knight-Jeffries Dramatic Company, on Mr. J. C Williamson's behalf, left for Sydney by the Maheno on Saturday. Mr. Bert Royle will act as advance agent for •-the company during the remainder of the .tour. . Under the provisions of v the Education Vet Amendment Act of last session, Dr. W. J. Anderson, LL.D., has been appointed Assistant Inspector-General. DrAnderson, who is fifty-one years of age, has during the last six years been Inspector of Schools in North Canteibury. .Previous to that he was for three years Inspector for South Canterbury. . He is a- graduate of the Royal University of (Ireland. Just before breaking up for the holidays the pupils and teachers of the South Wellington School presented tok'gns of their esteem to one of the teachin* staff— Mr. Edgar Feltham— who is about to be married to Mis* Embury. 'Mr. Feltham, who is the Superintendent •of tile Sunday School, and Miss Emibury, who is the church organist, and ■teaches in the school, have also received presents from the various departments of the Donald M'Lean-street Primitive ■Methodist Church. Mrs. G. T. Hood, one of Wellington's early residents, died in Talmer-street yesterday morning.' The deceased lady, who was within a few days of her 76th birthday, was born in London, and came out to Wellington by the ship Now Era, which arrived here in June, 1855. Some time after her arrival she was married to Mr. Hood, who predeceased her by six years. Mrs. Hood, who had never gone out of Wellington, had been a great sufferer from an internal complaint, but she- had only been seriously ill for a few days before her death. She was of an amiable and benevolent disposition. Her only son is Mr. W. S. Hood, of Wellington, and sho has also left two daughters (Miss Hood and Mrs. W. Halliburton), an adopted son, and four grandchildren. A well-known resident of Petone, Mr. John Edmonds, 4ied suddenly at his residence, Jackson-street, Petone, about raid.night last night. Deceased was ex-Presi-dent of the Petone Working Men's Club, and yesterday attended, in company with iseyeral friends, a picnic at Trentham arranged by some members of tho Wellington Working Men's Club. Mr. Edmonds returned to his house, accompanied by. his friends, about 7 o'clock last night. He laid down on a sofa and his friends de•parted. Mrs. Edmonds and family came ' home from cnurch later in the evening, and found -deceased lying on the floor. Mrs. Edmonds, thinking that he was intoxicated, placed a pillow under his head Md then went to bed. At midnight she w«nt to see how he was, and found him •lying face downwards on the pillow, apparently dead. Dr. Ross was immediately called in and found life to be extinct. He was not prepared to certify as to the - cause of death, as he had not previously attended deceased. The Coroner has directed a post mortem examination of the body to be made, and intends holding nn inquest at Petone to-morrow afternoon.

In the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Messrs. Henry Savage and W. Tustin, Justices, a youth named Peter Francis Clinton, represented by Mr. Herdman, pleaded guilty to theft of a bicycle valusd at £5, the property o5 Mr. Cimino, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. It was shown that tho defendant was the son of lespeetable people, and' that he stole the machine from the Te Aro Baths, and offered it for sale at the premises of a cycle dealer. Wm. M'Guire, a young man, was remanded until the 20th inst. on a charge of theft of a pair of trousers valued at 10s 6d, belonging to David . .Davis. Accused pleaded guilty to the offence, but was remanded in order to en-, able the police to make enquiries about ibim. For insobriety Catherine Thatcher and Wm. Fraser Dalgarno were each fined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment; Wm, Whicker and Michael Byrne were each fined ss, in default 24 hours imprisonment ; Alfred Rickman was fined .10s, in deftiult 48 hours; two first offenders, 10s, in default 24 hours ; and three first offenders were 'each convicted and discharged. For habitual arunkenaess Mary Ross was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. A brief paragraph in the Post on Saturday announced that the valuation placed by the Stamps Department on two hotels '.in the Jacob Joseph Estate had been reduced by Mr. Justice Cooper from £12,300 to £10,000, costs being allowed to ■the solicitor for the estate. Though the • facts were correctly stated the inference is misleading, for the Department gained a virtual victory. The original dispute between the parties was whether a goodwill was dutiable under the Deceased Estates Act, a point that was decided in «avour of the Department some time ago. Argument was then taken, and evidence 'given, as to the value of two hotel properties in the estate, a reduction of £2000 being. made. The contention of the trustees in the estate was that no duty was payable; but, notwithstanding this, ■cost* had to be allowed them, since subsection 4 of section 55 of the Stamp Act stipulates -that where any reduction is 'made in the Commissioner's assessment, ■costs must be given against the Department. t Messrs. Caxtondyk and Fccko advcrliio winds and spirit* for Christmas. Aborted leases can bo made up to suit families. ■ There are vacancies for boarders at the Pipitea Private School, Moturoa-itrcct, Wellington. The principals are- Mies BtfcM. M.A.. »*d MLii Bradwell.