PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 103, 29 October 1906, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Miss Scaly, matron of the Otaki Hospital, has bsen appointed matron of the consumptives' sanatorium at Otaki, in addition to her present office. The.. Mayor of Wellington (Hon. T. W. His!op) and eight members of the CityCouncil will represent, the Empire City at the opening of the Exhibition on Thursday. A Press Association tekgram from Sydney states that Stanbury, the scalier, left for New Zealand by the Wimmera on Saturday to fulfill his engagement with Webb, of Wanganuj. Chief Judge Palmer, of the Native I Land Court, accompanied by Mr. Heke, ! M.H.R,, will leave this evening for ChristchuTch to hold a sitting of the court at Leeston. . The Rev. D. C- Bates, F.R. Met. Soc, returned by the s.s. Pateena yesterday from Christchurch, where he has installed the instrument sent out by the British. Government in the meteorological section at the Exhibition. Mr. Henry Jackson, one of the early settlers, passed array afc his residence, Lower Hutt, this " morning, at the advanced age of 77 years. Mr. Jackson joined the Indian navy as a midshipman at the age of fifteen, and remained in that service till its abolition, by which time he had attained the rank of captain. He' came to Now Zealand in 1861, and at once entered the Survey Department under the Provincial Government, retiring in 1874 as Chief Surveyor of the Wellington Province. He was elected to Parliament as member for Hutt in 1880, but only served in that capacity for a brief period. He was a Justice of the Peace for many years, chairman of Taita Public Cemetery Trustees, and a prominent member of Lower Hutt Anglican ChuTcli. His end was somewhat sudden. He caught a cold last Monday, took to his hrcd on Friday, gradually became weaker, and expired at an early hour this moraine- He is survived by a widow, six sons and two daughters. The sons arc — Mr. R. K. Jackson, solicitor, Mastcrttn; F. W. P. Jackson, accountant to 'Messrs. Nimma and Blarr, Dunedin ; Mr. E. H. Jackson, of the Union Bank, Timaru ; Mr. C. C. Jackson, sheep farmer. Mauriceville ; Mr. Percy Jackson, in the office of Messrs. Wilford- and Levi, solicitors, Wellington ; and M. E. 0. Jackson, of Mr. R. J. Thompson's staff, Lower Hutt. The daughters are Mrs. Barclay Hector and Miss Adele Jackson.