PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 8, 9 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. Major-General Godley, Mr. and Mrs. Birch, and Mis. Bidwill received invitations to lunch at Government House ' The following received invitations to ft dinner party «t Government House yesterday": Mr., Mre., and Misa Brandon, Captain CheSney, Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, Mr. and Miss Gore, Mr. and Mtb. V. Riddiford, Mr. and Mrs, A. Duncan, the Hon. W. Collins, M.D., and Mrs. Collins, Archdeacon and Miss Fancoort, Mr. and Misa Tolhurst, Mr. and Alias Cooper, Lieutenant 'Denmstuun, R.N., end Miss Dennietoun, Captain Stopford, 8.N., and Mrs. Stopford, Mr. and Mrs Abbott, the Hon. A. Myers and Mrs. Myers, Mr. and Mr*. Macarthy. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Islington are to attend the opening performance of Mies Margaret Cooper at the Opera House on Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning at 11 o'clock Hi* Excellency will entertain at a light luncheon at Government House .the officers of the Defence Forces now visiting Wellington. 1 On Friday the Governor will attend live opening of th© Maeterton Competitions, and on Saturday evening he will be entertained by the Orphans' Club. Mr. P. J. O'Regan left for Reefton last evening, where he has been retained by the Miners' Federation to act, as counsel Mr. Cyril Dix, solicitor, of Wellington, ■who underwent an operation in Sydney last week, has, states a private cablo message, been pronounced out of clanger. Mr. T. Gillman, for thirty years an accountant in . the New Zealand Loa& Company's employ, and who retired on pension two years ago, died suddenly at Timarn on Sunday, Mr. James Lynch, who has been connected with the firm of Messrs. Wardell Bros., j Willis-street, for the past aeven yeans, <w*w last evening presented with a. Handsome dinner^ service, on the occasion of- h» approaching marriage. Air. H. Wardell, who made the presentation on behalf of the staff, spok« in high terms of the good qualities of the recipient, •nd wished him every happiness and success in the future. Mr. Lynch suitably replied. Mr. George Frederick Elvery, who was found dead in bed at Palmerston, up till fifteen years ago resided at Lower Hutt. He had just completed his fiftieth year ac a member of the Loyal Rose of ihe Valley Lodge, M.U., 1.0.0. F., Lower Hutt, of which he was a P.G. One brother is a prominent officer of the Bank' of New South Wales, and some are farming at Lismore, New South Wales, and others are prominent leather merchants in Dublin. There aro no known relatives in New Zealand. At the inquest Dr. Bett rtated that the cause of death was rupture of the near base of the heart. The hie Major William Gilbert Mair, «rhoee d-eath was reported 'in yesterday's Post, wjis born at Mahapu, Bay of Islands, it November, 1832, and educated at the Waimate Mission School, under the Rev. R. Taylor, and at St. John's College, Auckland. He served through the Waikato, Tauranga, and West Coast campaigns, the expedition to the Ure■wera Country, and in 1866 he was gazetted Major. Deceased was in command at the capture of Te Teko, where a number of the murderers of the Rev. Mr. were captured. He was appointed Resident Magistrate for tiie Taupo district in 1864, aud for Waikato seven years later, when he persuaded the Maori King, Tawhiao, to lay down his arms. In 1532 Major Mair was appointed a Judge of the Native Land Court, and ■was placed on the retired list in 1903 It was he who held the first Land Court in . the King Coxwitry, at Otorohanga, in 1886, when the great Bohepotee block waa dealt wi£h for tho first time. During his career as Nativo Land Court Judge he was instrumental in opening an immense atea of land for settlement. In 1899 lie was Kent to Samoa by the New Zealand Government, as Consul, under arrangement with the Imperial authorities, but lie wa* a short-lived^ Consul, for Samoa very soon afterwards begame a, German poK&s&iicm.,