PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 155, 29 December 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS.

M. De Gaza, the recently-appointed Russian Consul-General for Australasia and tlie South Sea Islands, was a passenger from' London to Hobart by ths fomc. Ho will reside in Melbourne. Hi;. F. Castle, who has been appointed l to represent the chemists of New Zea-v land at a conference to bo held in' Sydney. leaves by tho Monowai this even, ing for Auckland, where he will join tho Maheno for Sydney. The Hon. George Fowlde, Minister oi Education, and New Zealand's delegate at the inauguration of the South African Union, cabled to friends in Auckland; yesterday that he and his party had ,arrived at Adelaide that day from South; Africa aboard the new steamer Aeneas? and that all were well. Hon. W. A. Holman, Attorney-General and Hon. G. S. Beeby, Minister for Lab. our and Education (Now South Wales State Government) left for Auckland and, Rotorua last evening. Mr. G. C. Wade, ex-Premier of New South Wales leaves in the Marama this evening for a tour? in the Cold Lake country. The Eight Hon. G, W. Palmer, P.C., and Mrs.. Palmer, will arrive at the Bluff on Monday next from London, via Melbourne. Mr. Palmer is associated with the great biscuit firm of Huntley and Palmer, Reading. Mr. Palmer was Mayor oi' Reading in 1888-9, and Liberal M.P. for tho same borough, from 1898 to 1904. The Palmers _of Reading are one of tho oldest Society of Friends families in England. Mr. Martin Kilgour, Assistant Land Transfer Registrar in Wellington, wilt retire on superannuation on the 6th April next, but will cease active dutj^ next Saturday week, as he has been granted three months' leave. Mr. Kilgour joined the department when it was established forty-four years ago. He is the eldest son of tho late Dr. James Kilgour, for some years Mayor of tho Thames. The funeral of the late Constabla Scully, orderly at the Christ ehruch Magistrate's Court, took place yesterday, (sa>s a Press Association telegram). Requiem mass was solemnised at 9 a.m in! the Roman Catholic Cathedral by tho Rev. Dr. Kennedy, who also conducted the service in the afternoon. The interment took place in the Linwood cemetery, the body being followed to its last resting -place by a full muster of de« ceased 's tellow-members of the service. Among those present w ere Inspector 1 Kiely. Sub-liiGpsctor M'Grath, Chief-De-tective Bishop, and other representatives of the detective oftke, Serjeant M'Ltnnan, ex-Inspector Gillies. cx-Detectiva Livingstone. The funeral of the late Mr. Arthur Ck:o. Milhvard, of the Railway Department, took place in Wellington this morning. The coffin containing tha body was brought down from Hastings last night, and befoie the cortege otai'Led for the Bolton-stwet Cemetery, la which the deceased's father and mother are buried, a short service was conducted in St. Peter's Charcli by Archdeacon! Harper. Mr. Millwa>-d Andeisou, one of the nephews, played his laid uncle's favourite hymns on the churrh. organ before the service began, and 1 also the "Dead .March in Saul" as the body was being bon»e down tin 1 aisle to the hearse. Archdeacon Harper officiated at wlie grave side. The chief mourners were Messrs. W. H. Millward, Charles Millward, and Fredk. Mills ward (brothers), Messrs. Edward Ancerson, Thos. F. Martin, ;md Robt. Wilw berfo«s (brotnors-in-law), and f=evea iieplipw.s. The late Mr. Millward waa married to a daughter of the Rev. Frank Simmons, first rector ot the Dunedia High School, and afterwards principal! of "Nelson College,