PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Captain Falconer, of Blenheim, was I a passenger from Picton by the Penguin this morning. Mi\ A. T. Maginnity, Chairman of the Nelson Education Board, is at present in Wellington. Mr. F. C. Crease was last evening elected president of the Wellington Provincial Industrial Association. Mr. A. H. Mildenhall has been elected unopposed to fill the extraordinary vacancy on the Johnsonville Town Board, caused by the resignation of Mr. A. Chapman. Miss R. Harvey, a prominent .yorker for the prevention of ciaeliy to animals in India, where she instituted several hospitals foi animal*, is now on a visit to Wellington. Mr. James Barry, one of the directors of the Wellington Investment, Trustee, and Agency Company, Ltd., who has been seriously ill, was reported to-day to be a little better. At the monthly meeting of the- Manawatu Agricultural anJ p astoral Committee yesterday, telegraphs our local cerrespondent, special refeience was made by Mr. Jacob, president, to the labours-, jn the association's interests of the late Mr. H. Bryant, formerly of Ohariu Valley, Wellington, and moro recently a settler in Manawatu. A presentation was mado to Mr. F. T. R. Johnson, 'of tho Money Order and Savings Bank, oy his fellow employees | yesterday. Mr. Kissel, chief of the Kav- ! ings Bank staff, in making tho presentation, spoke appreciatively of Mr. Johnson's services of over fifteen years, and of his high personal character. The death is reported from Papatawa, near Woodville, of a Crimean veteran, Mr. James Blake, aged 75 years. He served during the whole, campaign, being at Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman, and taking part in tho siege of Sebastopol. As a private in the Scotch Fusiliers, Blake was an eye-witness of tho famous charge of tho Light Brigade. It is expected that Miss Jessio Ackermann, World's organising secretary of the Girls' Realm Guild of Service, will reach Wellington early in October. She « will bo the guest of Mrs. T. Hislop. It is Miss Ackurmann's intention to study the social conditions of tho colonies, especially relating to women ; and sho has been engaged to contribute- to a, number of English papers on the subject. [ Tho meeting of the Wellington Centre ' of the N.Z.A.A.A. last night passed a vote of sympathy and condolence witn Mr. J. Doyle, an enthusiastic member of the centre, in connection with the death of his son, who recently died in Auckland, where he was stationed as an artilleryman. Auckland papers record that the body was interred last week with military honours. Tho funeral was largely attended The deceased's widow, father, and other relatives were chief mourners, while the military force, and tho hockey and football clubs, in which deceased took an interest, were also represented. The members of tho Permanent Force attended in full strength, and the Torpedo Corps, to which deceased belonged, formed tho firing party. Mr. J. E. Page, formerly Town Cleilc of Wellington, died at his lesidence, Khandallah, yesterday afternoon. His health had been failing for some years past, and an attack of influenza, during the past few weeks had such effect upon him that ho was unable, to rally. Mr. Page was born in Suffolk, England, and held responsible mercantile positions in his native town before coming to New Zealand, with 1113 wife, in 1877. He soon afterwards became clerk and accountant on tho City Council staff ; in December of the same year ho was mado City Treasurer; and in March, 1886, ho received the appointment of Town Clerk, which he held until a few years ago. On resigning office ho leceived a presentation irom the staff. At tho timo of his death he retained tho secretaryship of the Wellington Fire Board, and ho was secretary of the colonial movement for a Seddon memorial. In his earlier days Mr. Pago was a prominent cricketer, and ho was wellknown in local musical circles, having been choirmaster of St. Mark's Church, /md a member of thn Wellington Philharmonic Society. Ho leaves a widow nnd ten children. Tho eldest son is Mi. Robert Page, of the Hawera Star office j the second son is Mr. Joseph Pago, manager of tho Union Bank at Hclensvillo; and two other son 3 (Edward and Thomas) are in bnsiness at Eketuhuna as solicitors. There are six daughters, of whom three are- married : Mrs. F. R. Earncs and Mrs. C. R. Stuart, of Wellington; and Mrs. J. D. Barnott, of Wanganui. Mr. Page was 67 yoaru of .aß«i. a B«i