PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. H. Bicknell, secretary of the Wellington Art* Club, who is leaving Wellington, resigned from the club last evening. The employees of Messrs. Aitken, Wilson and Co. have made a presentation to Mr. J. Giles, who is leaving for Wangartui after being in the employ of the firm for twenty-one years. Passengers due at Wellington about. Monday next by tlrtxßotortia from Loft don, include Sir Charles Bowen (Speaker ia the Legislative Council), Lady, and Miss Bowen. and Mr."R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P., and Mrs. Rhodes. ( A New Plymouth Press Association, lelegrani states: ."Another early settler Mr, Thomas Inch, died this morning) aged seventy-four years. H© arrived in the first ship ift 1841, was employed in the boating service, and subsequently by the Harbour Board for many years." Mr. J. T. Hawthorn, a member of the Lower Hutt Borough Council, who was taken ill laet week with* a sudden attack of pneumonia following on a severe told, is now making rapid progresa towards recovery. Present indications are that- it will not be very long before he is about again. Mr. J. J. Roach, ot Papakura, died last week at the Mount Pleasant HofcSital, after 1 an illness of some weeks uration. Mf. Roach was 66 years of age, and some five years ago relinquished the position of chief clerk to the Auckland Education Board, which he had held for 27' years. Mt. Roach afterward* took up a land agency business at Papakura. He leaves a widow and one eon. '" j An old identity, of Auckland passed away last week in the person of Mr. Alfred Smith Fulljames, who died suddenly at the residence of his Son, Owens-road, Devonport. Mr. Fulljames arrived in New Zealand in 1869 by the ship Tornado, and resided in Auckland and Devonport up to the time of hi* death, He leaves a family of three sons and three daughters and a large number of grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Mr. George W. Chandler-, a very old settler in Wellington, died this morning at the family residence in Ingestreplace. The deceased was born in London 72 years ago and followed the sea until he was 18 year* of age. He came out to Wellington as a niemher 9f the crew of the Minerva fifty-four years ago,. Mr. Thomas Bennett, now living ,at the Hutt, being a shipmate, with the ; exception of some time spent in\tbo Gabriel's Gully and Wakamarina gold- [ fields, he had lived here ever since. Mr. j Chandler joined the Oddfellows, soon, j after arrival jn Wellington and retained his connection with the order until he died. For the pa^t fifbeen months he had been in poor health, but did' not take to his bed en account of his condition until his 72nd birthday (last Thursday). He has left a widow and * family of four, viz., Mr. E. G. Chandler (Messrs. P. Hayman and Co. 'a staff), and Mesdames J. Power, M, J. Bird, and F. Leathern.