PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

' ' ■*■ ■ ' ■ The Governor will leave for Dttnedin to-night. On Tuesday His Excellency will opon the Otago A. and P. Association's Winter Show. H& will return to Wellington on Thursday, The Hon. T. Mackenzie left for Dunedin last, night.* The death is announced of Mr, 3. W. Emmmon, a well-known settler of ,WaV(srley. Mf. K. JKeene left by the Main Trunk to-day for Auckland and Tauraflga on an extended trip. Mr. Arthur" E. Prior, of the Danneyirke brunch of the Bank of Ngw Zealand, is to be transferred to the Wellington office. „ Mr. 9. g. Patterson, of Tinakori-road, •who has been confined to hi* bed for gome time, is now making satisfactory progress towards' recovery. News, has been received in Wellington that Mr. H«nry IH.1 H . Holmden, son. of Mr. H. fl. Holmden, of Kelburne, who recently passed hia final medical examination at Edinburgh, ha» been posited on the honours list. The Rev. B, Huteon went to New Plymouth to-day to fill one of the pulpits there to-morrow, vicei the Rev. W. J. Comrie, who is to attend Mr. s T. E. Taylor's funeral as a representative of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr. W, D, Lyanar, Mayor of Gisborne, w,as warmly praised for hi* efforts towards improving the handling of frozen' tiroduce in London by the Farmers' Onion Conference yesterday. A special moiutioa. was passed to thafi effect* • Detective-Sergeant M'Uveney, who Irus been in charge of the detective staff of Newton station, Auckland, arrived in Wellington last evening to fill the vacancy at Lambton station caused ,by the transfer of Detecttve'Sergeaflt Cas-e-ells' to Napier. Mr, Harry P, Lyons, the veteran' theatrical manager, who has suffered a breakdown in health, returned to Sydn6y by yesterday's steamer. Mr. Lyons \vas_ acting as touring manager for 'ijVicok," the magician, whett his illness compelled hint to forego the position. Mr. Lyons is en vnute to Melbourne, where his home is. A cordial send-off was given the Irish delegates— 'Messrs., Redmond, Haaleton, and Donovan-'Ott their departure from New Zealand by the Manuka last evening. Among the party on the wharf were Sir James Carroll, Mr. Martin Kennedy, and the- members of the local committee. The cornet player on board the steamer pla^c-d appropriate Irish airs and the crowd on the wharf joined in the chorus The Act'ing'Prime Minister (Sir Jag, Carroll), the Hon. G. l<"owlds, and the Hon. D, Buddo will represent the Ministry at the funeral of the* late Mr. T. E. Taylor at Chmtehureh to-morrow. Mf. 0, A, C, Hardy, Opposition Whip, will lep/csent his party , and Mr. D. M'L«?f.fi will bo present as representing th© N*w Zealand Labour Party, of which he is president, and Srevei'al other member* will also attend. The death took place this afternoon of Mr. Francis M'Parland, J.P., proprietor of th« Hotel Cecil. The late Mf. M'Pariwid had besn' ill . only a few i days. About » week ago he caught a chill aflct complications followed, which ended fatally. He was seventy-one, and is 5 survived by Mrs. M'Ptirhtnd, three daughters, and two sons. Mr, M'Parl&fld was ft well-known West Coaster, and was oa-s of the fir«fc off the Chariestofi GWMda. Among those old identities who were with him. were Mi. T. G. Mattirthy, Mr. Pv. Hannah. Mr. Mttrtifi Kennedy, the late Dr.. Henry, «nd tha kte Mr. Thomas Dwan, He was identified with the liberal eauee, in which h« wag a, •staunch supporter. He hnded on tha West Coast from the North of Ifeiatid afld nineteen years ago cam* Uy Wellington. Parting a. bakery bu&lm^s, which his sons still carry on in TatfanukUtreet. He was t>{ a goiiial disposition and extremely' charitable, *nd ho will be yreatiy ■missed by a krg« Htifflbsr of msnds ami