PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Yen. Archdeacon D'Arcy 1 Irvine arrived from Sydney to-day Mr. Cooper, eon of Mr. Justice Cooper, arrived by the Maunganui from Sydney to-day. Mr. Alf. Jinley, of West and Royal Pictures, returned to-day from a vieit to Sydney. Mr. F. W. Haybitble, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned from Sydney to-day. Mr. Dan Godfrey, secretary of the Picton, Rowing Club for several years, was presented with a Rotherham watch prior to his departure for Wellington. Mr. W. A. Waddell, of Kelburne, accompanied by Mrs. Waddell, will leave lor Melbourne by the Maunganui tomorrow, and will probably remain in Australia for the winter. The Hon. William Pitt, the wellknown Australian theatre architect, of Melbourne, arrived from Sydney to-day in connection with the plans for the ra>w Opera, Honso to be erected 1 in Man-ners-street. The Hon. F. W. Pennefather, LL.D., who acted ac Judge of the Supreme Court at Dunedin w 1898 during the absence of Mr. Justice Williams in England, occupied a se*t on the ft Court of Appeal Bench yesterday. As president of the Wellington Industrial Association, Mr. L. B-. Partridge has been appointed a member of the frovieional committee of th© Auckland ndtasta-ial Agricultural and Mining Exhibition, which is to bo opened at the end of next year. At Waitara last night, Mr. W. T. Jennings. ex-MJ?. for Tauniarunui, was presented with a purse of 100 sovereigns by hie old constituents. There was a very large gathering. Messrs. Lanrenson and Buck were present, and made congratulatory speeches. Mr. Jennings announced that he would contest the seat against all-comers at the next election. The Hon. J. A. Millar arrived in Dunedin by the first express yesterday afternoon (states a Press Association telegram). In the course of a day. or two he will consult hifi committee, but, until then, will not decide whether he will meet his constituents or not. He will leave on Saturday for Wellington, and, after spending- a few days there, will go to Auckland, and thence to Sydney, returning to New Zealand for the opening of Parliament. News has been received from Cairns, Queensland, stating that Mr John Gallic, of this city, who was a passenger to China and Japan, on the E. and A. liner St.' Albana, became seriously ill, and had to put ashore at Cairns for medical attention. He became an inmate of a private hospital, and at date of latest advices (7th inst.) was progressing 60 well towards good health that it was expected that in a few days he would be able to proceed to the Kuranda Sanatorium. s While in Fremantle, Mr. F. W. Haybittle met Mr. Harold Bo&uchamp and Hon. C. J. Johnston. There was a reasonable distance of sea water between them, for they were on the Malwa, which, had a case of smallpox on board. Mr. Haybittle spoke from a hulk, and gathered that Mr. Beauchamp was remarkably well and quite recovered from the breakdown which caused him to take a change. The quarantine regulations required that the Malwa paceengers should ba twenty-one day© nnder observation from the outbreak on board, and that had been discovered just before the Mal'.va reached Fremantle. The London correspondent of The Post writes under date 15th March: "I have Sir William Hall-Jones's authority for I'erfcerating emphatically the statement li© made to me last Augast to the effect iiat he has no intention of re-entering oolJtical life in New Zealand. Certain aiggeetions have been made lately as the result of the political situation in ■Jew Zealand, bat Sir William's health _aas so much improved during his stay in London that his friends strongly approve of his determination not to run the risk which would be entailed by a re-entry into th© hurly-'bnrly of politics. Sir William's extended! term as High Commisaioner expires on 31«t March, bat s> far there is no word of a successor being appointed." Mr. Erancift Simpson, late Commissioner of Crown Lands in Taranaki, died last evening, aged/ sixty-six. He retired' from office twelve months ago. The Lube Mr. Simpson was born- in Lancaster in 1846, and came out with hi* parents te New Zealand at the age of seven. He was educated at Wesley College and the Church of England Grammar School at Auckland, and adapted' the profession of land surveyor. He joined the Government service in 1875, and four years later was appointed a district surveyor. In 1892 he Decame •chief draughtsman in the Hawkes Bay office, aaid in 1904 he went to New Plymonth as Chief Commissioner. He held a commission in the Second Waikato Company during the Maori war. During the meeting of householders at. Kaiwarra on Monday night, occasion was taken to bid Mr. Andrew Wixon late treasurer of the committee, goodbye. Mr. Wixon, who has been a member of th© committee for some fifteen years, severed his connection witn the committee owing to his removal from the district. The chairman of th© meeting (Mr. W. E. Wells), in moving "that this meeting of Householders' regret that Mr. Wixon is compelled to sever his connection with the committee, and resolves to> place on record its appreciation of the long and faithful services rendered by him," spoke in high praise of Mr. Wixon's abilities as a school comroitee man. The motion, was seconded by Mr. R. E. Flaws, retiring chairman of committee. *vho, with Messrs. D. Mimro and W. J. Bowden, former members and chairmen of the committee, bore eloquent testimony to Mr. Wixon' s many good qualities and abilities. The motion was carried by acclamation. A prominent figure in the legal and social life of Wellington, Mr. E. H. Dean, oi the legal firm of Messrs. Brown and Dean, passed away at his residence, Grant-road, at five o'clock yesterday ■evening. For the last six months he had suffered from heart trouble; lately pneumonia supervened, and he passed peacefully away. Mr. Dean was- the eon of the late Rev. W. J. Dean, and came to New Zealand from Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1868, when only six years of age. In 1878 he joined the legal firm of F. M. Oliivier, and after serving his articles remained with the firm until it became eventually that of Brown, Skerrott, and Dean. Later, Mr. Skerrett retired from the partnership, and tho firm continued in practice ac Brown and Dean. A few weeks ago Mr. Brown retired, and Mr. T. Neave left ilie Orown Law OiHce and became Mr. Dean's partner. The late Mr. Dean took a great interest in the work of the parish < i ' Paul's, of which he was a, wernbt., ...A wa* for many years a ]ay member of the Anglican Synod. He v/.wp ako far several years well known in the bowling world as a member of the Thorndon Club. He leaves a ■widow and one daughter (Mrs. H. >S. King, of Wellington), and two Aone — Mr. Roy Dean, of Wellington, and Lieut. Dean, of the Dorsetshire Regiment, who recently left New Zealand to join hie regiment at Poonah, India. The late Mr. Dean was of a quiet, unostentatious* disposition, a man of fcterhng character, and one whose death will be deeply regretted by; those with whom he was 'Associated.