PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor was entertained at lunch yesterday afternoon at Devine's Empire Hotel, Palmereton North, by ,the-.Manawa.tu. Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The Bight Hon. James Bryce, American Ambassador, will arrive by the Rotoiti from Nekon tUis evening, and will be £he guest of *£&b Excellency at Government House. Lord Islington is motoring from Palmereton North and expects to arrive in Wellington early this evening. Mr. W. C. Not* has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Tramways Union. Mr. A. A. Corrigan, who was one of the Wellington delegates to the Chambers of Commerce Congress in London, will leave England on 11th July on his return journey to New Zealand. Feeling reference as to the loes which the Victoria Bowling Club has sustained by the deaths of Messrs. Win. Guiee and Edward Kirkland vrsm made at the annual meeting of the club last night by Mi. Geo. MacMahon, the president. Mr. Justice Chapman returned from Blenheim hist night. Mr. Justice Cooper will leave for Palmeiston North to-morrow to conclude the Supreme Court businefis, and on Friday Mr. Justice Sim will proceed to Christchurch and Dnnedia to preside over sittings of the Court of Arbitration. In the offices of the Evening Po»t ye&« terday tho literary staff united in a presentation to Mr. Patrick Galvin, who has been connected -with the paper for some time, and has resigned to take up another position in the city. Reference was made to the , veteran journalist*, pioneer work in the newspaper life of the Dominion, and to his conscientious and capable discharge of his duties on The Pc«t. The presentation took the form of an illuminated address and a gold-mounted fountain. p*n. Mr. Galvin, in an appropriate reply, told several interesting stories of journalistic life in the old days. At the conclusion of the function cheers were given for Mr. and Mrs. Galvin. The funeral of the "Father of Auckland," Sir John Logan Campbell, took place yesterday, nearly all shops in Auckland being closed during the afternoon as a mark of respect. The body was laid to rest as arranged on the crest of Manngakiekie. There were so many wreaths that when the hearse was filled, other carriages had to be provided to take the rest, which were conveyed to Maungakiolde and laid on the grave. The Governor and Lady Islington sent a lovely wreath. The cortege left "KilbrvM' ok 2 o'clock. The casket was a rich' bat simple on&, of plain oak with silver Stiingg. Coming after the hearse, ie tho first carnage, were Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, cousin of deceased (chief mourner), Mr. A. S. Bankart, Mr. C. L. Arnold, and Canon Mac Murray. Then followed the carriage with the Hon. J. A. Colvin (pepreeentang the Government), ■ the Rev. W. E. Gillam (representing the Bishop of Auckland), and Sir. Leo Myers. The Acting-Mayor (Mr. 3. Court), the Town Clerk (Mr. H. W. Wilson), and a number of councillors represented the City Council, and. practically every public body and society wae represented. There were 160 vehicles in the procession, including about forty-six icotdr-cari, and this number represented about a .thousand people. As the cortege passed along, spectators joined in and followed on foot in thousands, so that the road was black with people. The vehicular portion of the procession took twenty minutes to pass one point. Business was practically suspended, and the solemn procession, as it wended its melancholy way to the graveside, was witnessed •by thousands of citizens. The route alotig Gladetone-road, Sh Ste-phen's-avenae, Manukau-toad, up the Cornwall park Drive, through tiio One Tree Hill Domain, was lined practically the whole way b}' people, aud at various poixite there were d#nse crowds, while ihe upper slop^ of Maungakiekie wera ifcickly thronged. Before the beautiful bcrial service of the Church of England v/u read, fJu« <»£9ciatiny clergyman (iiinoji jHacSturjay) ie?d a sheet dedica-