PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

An oid resld(nt on the West Cosst, Mr. Gastav Sch^ef, died recently at Greymouth. J Mr. Arthur PlipnitT (ron of Mr. J. A. Plimmer, of Wellington), maniger of tho Perth brunch of the" South British Insurance Company, is spending a holiday in Wellingtoh. " ■ Thi Rev. Ckas. Watt arrived from the south by the Mararos yesterday. He Ls to . fcotura in tho Concert Chamber of th 3 Town Hall to-morrow evening oa "Anti-Homo Rul;.',' Mr. A. C. Pcar:e, Mayor of Karori, and Mrs. Pearce were presented on Saturday night by tho residents of Nortkh.nd with gifts on tho occasion of their approaching departure for the Old Country. - The Formers' Union Advicato has it "on tho b:st authority" that at the next (prfcral elections Mr. T. W. McDonald will be a candidate for the Hr.tt scat, Mr. Edmund Ncwrann foT tho Manawatu seat, and Mr. GxO. Huntor for the Pahh-lua seat. Ths Ministsr for Lands (Hon. R. M'Nab), who returned from the South yesterday, will carry, out the duties of Minister for Railways during the illncßE of tho Acting- Premier. Mr. Jl'Nab leaves for tho North to-monoy; morning, to attend the winter show in Auckland. He departs for Wellington again on Wednesday, and will then remain in Wellington until Parliament meats. ifj. Che 5. 11. HoworLh, who 13 well Iniown in engineering and surveying circles in the South Icland, has arrived in Wellington with the intention of practising his profession in tlii3 city. Besides being an experienced engineer—included in tho vorks h& ha 3 designed 13 tbe Waiau bridge, ths longest suspension heavy traffic bridge in the colony — Mr. lloworth is well' known as an artist, 1 having been a r;ga>ar and successful eshibitor of pointings at tho annual Acidomy exhibition. Mrs. Wilson, v-if» of Mr. John WiirOn; of Central- torrsce, Kdburse, died at her rdsidenci oa Friday morning. Tho deceased lady, a daughtci" cf ihc lito Mr. James j.Muir, "iiummcrlce," Coaibridgc, Scotkad, was born ct Kilniarnock in 1847, and arrived at Port \ Chalmsfs by the thip Aucldand thirty ' y-2ars ago. * Sho leaves her husband, ! eight sons, and four unnnrried daugh- | tcre. Tiid sons tro Mtssrs. \V. M." XV il- ] s'ta (6f Ekotflhuna), A. B. and J. M. Wiboa (of Panks, Ui, Wollinrton), D. Wilson (of Rouctotea), H. F. \Yi:eon (of J. L. Bntlar, Lfd., AVelhngton), R. WUson (of Pholps Wil3on and Co., Wellington), James Wilson (of E. W. Mills and Co., Wellington) auu A. W. Wihon (of the Stato Coal Office, WeStport). The interment took ..place yesterday afterj noon at tho Karori cemetery, the Rev. J. K. .Elliott cfachting at tho graveMrc. 11. A. Bezar, wife of Mr. Edwin Bezar, of Pitt-atrett, Brrkiraporc, «3i"-d at the family residence ye3terday, after I a long and painfel ilincea." The daccased lady was a daughter of Sergeant T. 1 Kearnc, of tee 60th Rcgimant, and was j bora on board the troopship Java r.3 tho ! vessel was sailing up Auckland Harbour ! siirty years ago. VVhen sKn'-was two' years old a portion of her father.! rcgimfst iras ordered to tho iVfUiogton <'istrkt, a:id for nomq time- it; was ctatior.ed at Porirua. Sergt. Kearns btought h:s family with him. !In consequence of a .2port that the- natives ictended' to mike an attciiipt to kidnap the child, ths officer ia charge at Pdrirua cent, the mother and her littlo girj h^lo Wellington for safety. In 1866 Miss Kearns wa3 mariiea at Wanganui to Colour-Sergeant IJczir, of the 57th Ilsglmeut, then stationed: in that cart of tho colony, and witu tho exception of a year spent in Dunfdin she hid resided in the Wellington provincial district during the whole of h«r married life. Mrs. Bezar lias left a family of five sons and ijve daughters, eight o"f whom weTe present when sho died. There arc 16 grandchildren. The funeral toolt place at Karori this afternoon, tho buTial servico being conducted by the Rev. Fathor Ainrworth.