PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 108, 7 May 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Prime Minister (the Hon. T. Mackenzie) is still in the South. The Hon. J. A. Ha nan left for Invercargill last nijjhfc, and during his 6tay in Southland will attend a banquet to Mr. J. C. Thomson, M.P. The Hon. Dr. Te Bangihiroa left for Wanganui to-day to attend a meeting cf the Maori Council there. To-morrow night the Hon. A. M. Myers will leave for Christchurch. He will be accompanied by the Hon _ H. G. Ell, who is to be tendered a "social" by his constituents afc Sydenham. The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald) will visit Taranaki on his return from Marlborough. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P. (writes our London correspondent) has arrived back in England^ from the Pyrenees greatly restored in health, and will start shortly for New Zealand. Mr. T. W. Pilcher will leave for Sydney next Friday on a holiday trip. Mr. F. Mander, M.P., arrived in Wellington from Whangarei yesterday afternoon, and will be here for a few days. Or. fcf. H. Ctjbeon, medical officer and Stipendiary Magistrate at the Chathams, arrived in Wellington from Waitangi by the steamer Hirnitangi laet night. He i& on holiday leave. Mr. A. E. Mabin, president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, at the request of the Auckland Industrial, Agricultural, and Mining Exhibition to be held in 1913-14, hae allowed his name to be placed on the provisional committee list. Mr. John Wood, who ha« been transferred from Westport, ■Where he was assistant engineer in charge, left Wellington for the north on Saturday to take up his new position as Resident Engineer at Whangarei in the Public Works Department. Mr. D. M. Home, a very old resident of Woodville, but who for the last ten years had been farming at Ballanee. died this morning (states a Press Association telegram) from an attack of pneumonia ; aged 68 years. Deceased and his family arrived in the colony in the City of Auckland, which was wrecked at the mouth j>f the Otaki River, but all the passengers were safely landed. This was in the year 1878. On the occasion of the completion of 21 years' service • with Messrs. A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., Mr. Charles Athya, their senior representative, was the recipient, of a presentation in the form of a gold watch from his fellow travellers, the senior officers of the Wellington staff, and Mr. Shirtcliffe, the resident partner. A pleasant gathering took place, during which complimentary remarKfi were made in connection with Mr. Athya's excellent service and hearty wishes were expressed for Mr. and Mrs. Athya's future welfare. The death occurred yesterday (states a Press Association message from Palmereton. North), after two days' illness, of a very old colonist, Mr. Charles Price, at the age of ninety-three. He arrived in New Zealand in 1844, and had an adventurous career. In 1846 he established a timber yard at Pipitea Point, Wellington, and later went to the Victorian goldfields. He was shipwrecked twice, and on another occasion a terrific explosion wrecked the vessel, the crew having a miraculous escape. There were twenfy-one children in his family, but only two survive. The deceased never had a day's illness, and had never required the services of a doctor till the day before his death.