PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 89, 16 April 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Sir Joseph Ward will open the new poafc office at Weraros next week. The Hon. D. Boddo is speeding tbe >--*ek end at R&ngiora. The death, at the age of sixty-six, of Mr. J. M'K. Gedd«s, of the firm of Brown, Barrett, and Co., is announced in s> Press Association telegram from Auckland. Several members of the now disbanded Pollard's Opera. Company left for Bydnev ye*terdav. Mr. Fred Duval U In Wellington, Mr. Tom Pollard remains in Christchurch, and Mr. A. Moss, manager and proprietor, has gone to Duneihn. Mr. Jack Arnst, brother of the champion sculler, left for Sydney yesterday. He intends to compete in the "Parramaita Hundred" Handicap, and will afterwards accompany his brother to the Zambesi. Mr. J. H. Clay, who has represented Eharland and Co., Ltd., in the Wanganui, Hawera, and Palmerston districts for tha past twelve years, has resigned! ■bis position, having purchased a busiat Wanganui. Mr. Harold Churton will succeed Mr. Clay. Mr. F. O. Roach, head of the firm of Messrs F. G. Roach and Co., manufacturers' Agents, Harbour-street, passed away yesterday afternoon, tho cause of death feeing dropsy, from which he had been suffering for some- eighteen months. Deceased, who was a widower, leaves one child, a daughter. He was about 45 years of age. News was received in Wellington today of the death, from tetanus, of Lester Philp, son of Mr. James A. Philp, commercial editor of the Brisbane Courier, formerly of the Auckland Star, and nephew of Mr. A. B. Philp, of the Wellington Post Office staff. Young Philp, who was a bright lad, and intended for a journalistic career, was employed in the Courier office. He was trimming some trees outside his parent's residence when he slipped and fell, injuring ono of his toes on the fence. Lockjaw sot in, and he died about a week after the accident occurred. Air. William Fitchett, » very old settler in Wellington, died rather suddenly at his residence in Nairn-street to-day. The deceased, who was in his seventyfifth year, was born in Derbyshire, England, and came out to New Zealand with his parent* in the London, arriving in Wellington on 7th May, 1842, aearly sixty-eight years ago. His father took up land on the Ohiro-road, and .when he died, two of the sons — Messrs. Ashton B. Fitchett and William Fitchett — occupied the property until thirty years ago. Mr. William Fitchett then retired, owing to failing health, and took up his residence in Nairn-street, where he continued to dwell until his death. He was about as usual yesterday, but at an early hour this morning he became very fll, and Dr. Hogg was summoned. He grew rapidly worse, and at half-past 5 o'clock he breathed his last. Mrs. Fitchett, who was a daughter of the late Mr. George Hawkins, of H.M. Customs, is still alive, and there are two sons, vis., Mr. William H. Fitchett, of Shannon, and Mr. Alfred C. Fitchett, of Arthur-street, Wellington. The deceased has also left three brothers (Mr. A. B. Fitchett and Mr. John Fitchett, both of Wellington, and Mr. Arthur Fitchett, of Auckland) and a sister (Mrs. Thomas Symons. of Palmerston North). The interment, which will be private, will be made at Karon en Monday.