PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Rev. J. Chisholm was inducted to. the charge of Mangaweka Presbyteriaa Church this week, the Rev. G. Budd, of Feilding, performing the ceremony. Dr. Arnold Izard was last night welcomed back from his trip to England by the members of the Wellington Cycling Club, of which body he is president. The funeral of the late Mrs. Bryce, relict of the Hon. J. Bryce, took placa , at Wanganui yesterday, the remains being interred in the Brunswick Cemetery. ' The death is reported from Hawera of Mr. F. S. Cooper, formerly licensee of the Central Hotel, Masterton. Deceased was foreman printer of the Catholic Times until that paper ceased publication. The death is announced of Mr. M. J. Ennis, organist of St. Joseph's Church, Buckle-street, a position which he had held for the past eleven years. Mr. Ennis was also at one time organist at the Catholic Cathedral in Dunedin. He , was a member of the Wellington Liedertafel. Mr. Andrew Hislop, father of Mr. James Hislop, private secretary to the Prime Minister, died yesterday. Th© deceased gentleman, who was 66 years of age, was an old officer of the Railway Department, and was greatly respected. He was a resident of. Mosgie) for a long time, but for the latter part of his life he had lived at Benvar, near Stirling, Otago. For the' last two years he had been confined to his room owing to infirmity. A very old settler on Banks Peninsula, Mr. George J. Breitmeyer, died at Little River some days ago, telegraphs our Christchuich correspondent. Mr. Breitmeyer was born at Kairdel, Oermany, in 1837, and came to New Zealand in the Comte de Paris in 1840, settling in German Bay. He was among the first settlers on Banks Peninsula. There were practically no English people on the Peninsula at that time, and French was the language generally used. From constant association with the French immigrants, Mr. Breitmeyer gradually forgot his own language, and learned to speak French with facility. He remained in German Bay farming till 1884, when he went to Christchurch. He worked as a contractor for the Avon Road Board until 1890, and then went to Little River. He was for eleven years foreman for the Akaroa County Council. The late Mr. Alexander H. F. Thorn- • son, manager in Wellington for Messrs. Macky, Logan, Caldwell, and Co., xc- ! ference to whose death on Thursday night was made in these columns yesterday, was a son of the 'Rev. J. Moncrieff Thomson, of Glasgow, and waa unmarried. He was with the firm of Messrs- Arthur and Co., Glasgow for some years, and in his early career in Wellington he was in the service of Messrs Wilson and Richardson, whose place of business was the premises now occupied by the Dresden Piano Conw pany. He afterwards received an appointment from the firm he was with when he died. Mr. J. C. Macky arrived from Auckland last night, and was present at the funeral this afternoon. The gathering at the graveside at Karori was representative of all classes in the community, the deceased being widely known and much respected. The chief mourners were his three nephews, Messrs. J. and A. Thomson and Mr. W. H. Macdougall. Members of the staff of Messrs. Macky, Logan, Caldwell, and Co. acted as pall-bearers, and all the other soft goods houses in the city, as well as the Commercial Travellers' Club, were represented. There were numerous wreaths. Tho Rev J. Kennedy Elliott conducted a short service at the deceased'a late residence at Berhampore, and also officiated at the graveside.