PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20, 24 January 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. D. MUligan returned yesterday from a holiday trip to Rotorua. Mr.' J. P. Kenny, secretary of' the Napier Harbour Board, is qji a visit to. Wellington. Constable Doyle, who visited. Sydney on official business/ returned by the Moeraki to-day. Sir Charles Bowen wae yesterday re elected Vice-Chancellor of the New' Zealand University Senate without opposition. , Mr. D. C and Mrs. Bates, who have been to Australia on a holiday trip, re turned to Wellington by the Moeraki to-day. Major-Qeneral Godley, Commandant of the Forces, accompanied by Captain Spencer Smith, staff officer, left to^ay for Auckland. Dr. Coleridge Farr, Professor of Physics at Canterbury College, returned by the Moeraki to-day from an extended visit to the Old Country. He proceeds to Ohristchurch immediately. " The death is recorded of Mr. Thomas Mace, of Koru, Taranaki) a very old resident of the district. He came out with his parents in thp barque St. Michael, direct from London, ' reaching New Plymouth on 2nd December, 1852. Mr. Mace had resided in the Omata district ever sjnee, and took his share of military duty during the Maori wars. A well-known identity of Inglewood passed away -on Monday in the person of Mr. J. O'D.'Quigley. The deceased, who was seventy -five 'years of age, was a veteran pf the 43rd Regiment, and served in the Crimea, in the Indian Mutiny, and in New Zealand. He had foUr madals, the Crimea with three clasps, the Turkish, the Mutiny, and th* New Zealand. 1 Mr. Sydney Brown, of the firm of Messrs. Thomson and Brown, estate agents, Wellington, who has been in bad health for some time, passed away at his residence, Owen-street, this afternoon. Deceased, who was a native of Wellington, was a grandson of the late Mr. iJohn Plimmer. He was a member of the Masonic Order, and nisi death, at the early age of 36, will be deeply regretted by a large member of acquaintances and friends. He leave* a widow and two children. Mr. Martin Lightband, of. Nelson, has just celebrated his eightieth birthday. He came to Nelson in 1842 (says the Colonist), and flas practically resided on the banks of the Mai^ai, in Nilestreet East, for seventy years. He has eXperienoDd some sjirring times, especially in 1843, at the time of the Wairau massacre. Mr. Lightband has always taken , an activfr interest 111 local an 4 colonial affairs,-,- having eat as a city councillor and a member of' Parliament (1872). Information has been received by Mr. Jl V. Gordon that Mr. G. R. Hamoj, formerly of Masterton, was killed last month! near San Francisco. Mr. Hamon was on a motor cycle, and attempted to gef over a crossing before an express train, but failed to do so, and was killed instantly. The late Mr. , Hamon was about eighteen months in the employ of Mr. Gordon, leaving about two and a- half years ago to follow up his profession in San Francisco. Th,e deceased had been a prominent member Ot the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Club, and was very popular kmong his friends. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) was yesterday unanimously re-elected as Chancellor of the New Zealand Oniversity for the ensuing year. In thanking members for the honour, the Chancellor said that perhaps many things that he said and did \ might not be approved by all members, yet they knew jiim to have his own opinions on ur j ation ' dto 6 P eak tn0 #* opinions. I don t think any member 'of the Senate would *ay he does not know where I am on education matters," added the Chancellor, who concluded by ' stating that his attitude had always been to do what. he thought wae best for education in the Dominion.