PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 62, 11 September 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

ft id generally understood !n the lobBitjs tlhat Sir Wijliftm Steward »ad Mesew. C. Hall, F, Lawryi and A. Dillon, who have decided fiot to seek reelection to seats in the House, will be appointed to the Legislative Cou&cil after the General Elections. The- Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford) was back at work in the Town Hall to-day, after a fortnight's rest ordered by his medical adviser, away from official and Parliamentary duties, fie is in excellent health now, and appears id have completely recovered from his recent illness. Sir. J. H. Prendeville, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, is now progressing favourably, A resolution of sympathy with the family of the late Mr. T. Foley, excouncillor, was passed by the Eastbourne Borough Council on Saturday, The following were entertained at dinner at Government House on Saturday i— Hon. C. U. Luke,. Hon. ,W. W. M'Ardle, ttoii. J. Marshall, Hon. O. Samuel, Hon. J. R, Sinclair, Hon. T. Thompson, Hon. W. H. Tucker, Hon. C. tt. Mills, Mr. t>. M'Lar«n, M.P., Mr. A, 8. Malcolm. M.P., Mr, I<\ Mander, M.P., Mr, W.'NoswOTthy, M.P., Mr. R. H. Rhodes, M.P.. Mr. R. B. Ross, M.P., Mi' R Scott, M.P., Mr. T r E. If. Sed- ! don, M.P., Mr. T. X, Sidey, M.P.. Mr. J. C. Thomson, M.P., Mr. T. M. Wiiford, M.P.', and Mr. G. Witty, M.P O Mr, A. J. Bothamley, Mr. B. E. S. Stacker, Mr A, J. Rutherford. The t funeral of t-he late Mr, Arthur B. Plifflmer, formerly' of Perth, and i son of Mr. John A. Plimmer, of Kharid&llah, took place at the Boltonstreet esmetery on Saturday afternoon. Th* R«v. B. W. M'Connel, of Khandallah, conducted the service at the church and officiated at the graveside. There was a representative gathering of citizens at the funeral, including Messrs J. J. Mallard (Wellington manager of the National insurance Company), J. G. Harknesa, W. M. Hannay, A. R. Meek, (J. MaeMofraii, and representatives of the Onslow Borough Council and Wellington College Old Boys' Association. Many floral tributes were received, including wreaths from the Perth and head office staffs of the National Insurance Company, dece'a&ed having bteft at one time manager at Perth for the company. The 81-uce Herald "report** thtTdeatli, at Waihola., of Mr. Bell, one of the pioneers of Otago. He was a native of Westmoreland, North of England, in which county he was born m 1822, and had thus passed the allotted span of life by almost a- score of year*. in the days of his youth he was trained to a knowledge of the building and contracting trade. Hs emigrated to Melbourne in 1851, even before the momentous discovery of gold in Victoria. He Bailed from East India Docks. London, in the ship Mermaid, and landed in Melbourne after a. journey of sixteen weeks. In 1855 he decided to come to New Zealand, and sailed for Dunedin in; the ship Christina. In the same year he purchased the property known as " Spnngvale," about a mile- from Waihola township, wh«re he resided up to the time of his doath. The Very Rev. Father M'Namara, < who died on Saturday evening at St. Mary of the Angels' Presbytery, Boul-cott-street, aged sixty-seven years, was one of the oldest and most respected priests of the Wellington Diocese. He was a resident of the Dominion for about thirty-four years, arriving from Christchurch in 1879 to become administrator of St. Mary's Cathedral, Hill-street, and vicar-general of the diocese. These positions he filled until about 1892, when he relinquished his duties owing to failing health. After a recruiting health tour in Australia, the rev. gentleman laboured in the S wishes <m Blenheim. Reefton, and frtpier, returning- some eight or nine yeo-r* ago to St. Alary 's, Soitlcott-fitrcet. Of late yeArs he had lived in retirement. Father j.\f'No.mAra took a leading in the establishment «f St. Patrick's Cotlcae. Ho w&s born and ''duciited in Ireland, and w*s engaged in misaion work in London, when, at the wqueM of Archbishop (then Bishop) Redwood, he came out to Christchurch in 1877, actina as assistant to the late fay. Dean Gmaty at that placo until 1870. Solemn Reqniem Mass will be cckbratdd in St. Mary of the Angels' to-mort'ow at 5 o'clock, the funeral tivking place after that ceremony. Warner's r&st-proof corsets are the most inexpensive conat* a woman. -can