PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Sir Arthur Guinness, Speaker of the | House of Representatives and member for Grey, is in Wellington on departmental business connected with hk constituency. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward will leave for Taupo on Monday. Sir John Fiudlay's resignation as Minister of Justice is gazetted. The Hon. A. T. Ngata left Wellington yesterday for Port 'Awantii. The Hon. J. A. Millar loft Wellington to-day ou a holiday in the Taupo district. Dr. G. P. Baldwin has been appointed chief medical and health officer for the Cook Island's. Bt. Webster has returned to Welling- j ton after un absence., during which lio I ,v.'as recuperating his health. ( Mr. Thpnjas J. Lawlox, late of Valparaiso, Chili, who has. been on an exfended visit to his people in Wellington, leaves to-day by the -Moeraki for Sydney. Mr. Joseph Mandpl, of Wellington, has received cable advice thdjt his son, Dr. Mandel* who has been on the staff of Guy's Hospital for some time, has just taken hia M.D. degree. The formal notice, 1 extending the temporary appointment of Sir William HallJones a/ High Commissioner for New Zealand from"^st January to. 31st. Marqi spears in tho Ciaaetie to-day. « In the New Zealand' Society of Accountants essay competitions, in Sec. A., Mr. H. C. R.objp^on, of 4uckland, wae first. In Sec. 8., won by Mr. F. 4. Allen, of 'Wellington, Mf. J. A, Duncan, of Auckland^ wa^ second. Miy Spencer Hampsop, Nelson, was the judge. ' Advice has been reoeived in Wellington by cable that Mr. E. M. Litchfield, whft left for' London an 31efc Jury las* to study medicme at Guy'B Hospital, has passed the- first year's prof6sston.al eiarainations pf the conjoint examining board Of the " Royal College* of Physicians and Surgeons of England, held •in London at th.c beginning of this month. Messrs. K. M. Graham (topographer), E. L. Hoin.itjrpok (dra,ughtsfl«an), and E. S. WooiJ (assistant drangnt6man) t . have been appointed experts % the Defence Depai'taiMit. Other appointments gazetted include :— Mr. Hi >!• Skeet, to" be Commissioner ot Crown Lands at Auckland, vice Itfr. E, 0- Goltl Smith; Mr. H. D. M. Has^ajJ, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Westland, vice Mr. G. IT. M. M'Chtrej Mr. G. H. M. M'Olure, CommissiQßor of- Crown Lancte, Sputhland, vice M^ %■ M- Skeet s ~&. G. Price, Chief Draughtsman, Ohristchurch ; Mr. F. A. Thompson, phief draughtsman, N^apier. * Father John Denia O'Dwyer, of Leeston, died on Sunday night. He was born in Cqunty Kerry, Ireland, in 1847, and was educated at Black Rock College and in Paris, being ordained in the latter place itt' 1871. He spent many years in the archdiocejse of Wellington and the diocese of Auckland, and also in Tonga. He went to Christchurch in 1606, anji did duty in gumara/ Waimate, and latterly at Leeaton, At, the funeral of the late Father O'Dwyer, at Leeston, Canterbury, Bishop Grimes delivered a short address. He stated that the deceased clergyman had been a very devoted priest, and possessed a keen sense of duty. Great aeal and earnestness had always characterised hk work everywhere he had heen. He started the first Catholic newspaper .published in New Zealand, and was its first' editor. After a long and honourable caTeer he had come to Lef eton to prepare for death. ' _