PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 123, 23 November 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, will leave for the South this evening. Lieut.-Col. Hume, Inspector of Prisons, xeturned from the South yesterday morning. Tho Commissioner of Police (Mr. W Dinnie) is on a depai-tmental visit to the South Island. \ Mr. J. W. Brindley, late general manager of tne New Zealand State Fire Insurance Office, has returned to Wellington from a trip to the Old Country. Mrs. Gibb, wile of the Rev. Dr. Gibb, has been operated on in Melbourne for appendicitis. Private advice was received in Wellington on Saturday night, stating that the operation was successful, that, the patient was still weak, and that the. doctors had hopes-for a.complete recovery. Sir J. G. Ward, and the Hons. W Hall-Jones, R. M'Nab, and Dr. Findlay are the only Ministers in town to-day. The Hon. G. Fowlds is on his way to Auckland, the Hon. J. Carroll is at. Gisborne, the Hon. J. M'Gowan at tliei Thames, and the Hon. J. A. Millar at Dunedin. The death occurred at Hawera, on Saturday, of Mr. A. C. (Fred) Parkin- , son, second son of Mr. W. A. Parkinson,-, proprietor and editor of the Hawer.ay Star. The deceased, who was a you^ig man of considerable promise, was a mct9.. ber of the Star staff, and very well lijjfcjd. by many friends in South Taranaki. • He -married, some two years ago, a daßa/hter of Mr. H. Coutts, District Valu&r, of Hawera. , The names of Miss Mary C/achan, Miss Doris Haywood (St. MaaTj/s Convent), and Mrs. J. M. Emeri/on (fit. Mary's Convent) were omitted, I'rom thet list published last week of ffaose who. gained the licentiate degree ir#,he Trinity College of Music, London. 'These candidates, besides securing c^.-tificates in the art of teaching, as puVfohed, passed, with honours at the prac £cal exaniina- < tions conducted here last -month by Mr. Henry Saint-George, and this ranks them as licentiates, though fae official notification from London w/H not arrive for some time. The death took pla'je in Melbourne, on, the 13th instant, of 'Mr.' Frederick Augustus Cooper, bar^tister, of that city. Mr. Cooper was r^ son of the late Mr. Robert Cooper, of /^Juniper Hall, Sydney, and was born in in 1834. He was one of the s nj viving members of the first Reform Parliament of New South Wales, having; 'been elected (after the passing of th^o Reform Act of 1858) on 20th June, ■'ySS9, for Braidwood, defeating Mr. G. B. Simpson (now Mr. Justice G. B. Siripson). Mr. Cooper's picture, appears i'i.xho group which hangs in thelobby of. Parliament House. He was uncle of Sir Pope Cooper, the Chief Justice Queensland. Mr. Cooper was called to tho Bar in New South Wales on lfjfc March, 1864, and shortly afterwarr'te proceeded to practise in Queens■lan< l. He represented Cairns in the Ql'Q 1' /P.onsland Legislature, and was an inti £iate friend of the late Sir Thomas 7 A^ilwraith. Shortly after his retirement ytrom political life in Queensland he proceeded to New Zealand, where he prac- ', -tised at the Bar with success, and sub.sequently removed to "Victoria, where he had since resided. Mr. Cooper was married to a daughter of the Lite Mr. J. B. Watson, the millionaire mineowner of Bendigo. He lett a! widow and six daughters, one of whom is married to Mr. Leonard Dobbin, and another to Mr. F. W. Lake, of this city. Mr. Cooper wai brother-in-law to the late Mr. Wn>. Walktr, M.L.C., of Windsor, who predeceased him in June.