PERSONAL MATTERS VICE-REGAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 11, 12 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS VICE-REGAL.

His Excellency the Governor, Lord Islington, who is patron of the Wellington Orphans' Club, will be duly installed .to-morrow evening at the Masonic Hall. Dr. P. M'Evedy, -who underwent an operation for appendicitis yesterday, is progressing favourably in Nurse Lucas's private Hospital, Upper Willis-street. At an enthusiastic meeting of the Legion of Frontiersmen at Auckland last night, the Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey) was elected honorary commandant of the Auckland district. Mr. A. A. Paape, general secretary of the New Zealand Sports Protection League, returned from Auckland last evening. He reports that twenty-one branches of the league were 'formed in Auckland province. The funeral of the late Major Mair took place yesterday at the 'family vault in the Anglican Church graveyard, Whangarei. The coffin was shrouded with the Union Jack, and 150 school cadets accompanied the cortege from the station to the grave. Dr. Crossley, Anglican Bish.op of Auckland, left here for Dunedin last evening to attend the consecration of the Rev. Dr. C. J. Wood as Bishop of Melanesia. He will assist at tho conse'eration of the Rev. Dr. Sadlier as Bishop of Nelson. The special correspondent of The Post at Dunedin telegraphs: — "The O'tago High School Old Boys' Association yeßterday forwarded telegram© of congratulations to the Hons. H. D. Bell and A. L. Herdman on their attaining Cabinet rank. Both are ' Old Boys.' " The Rev. W. .Marshall, formerly of Lower Hutt, pasbed through here on the way .to Auckland to-day. Before, leaving his parish he was entertained and presented with a Substantial purse of sovereigns, and Mrs. Marshall with a handsome gold and pearl pendant. Mr. Robert Perrett, who had resided in Wellington for thirty-seven years, died in this city last night. He was born at Earl Stok"e, Devonshire, on 24th July, 1835, and prior to coming out to New Zealand in the ship Star of India, in 1875, he was in the English Militia, rising to the rank of sergeant instructor in the Royal Wilts. He was going out to the Crimea, but just before the time appointed for sailing the war was brought to a conclusion. For many years after he landed in Wellington Mr. Perrett was engaged in the brickmaking industry here, and it was he who supplied the late Mr. Joseph Saunders with the bricks used by the latter in connection with, his tunnel work on the Manawatu railway. The deceased took a keen interest in Volunteering in Wellington, and was sergeant in the Kaiwarra Rifles. He has left a daughter and five sons. His wife predeceased him by twelve years and a-half. The death is announced, at the age of 81 years, of Mr George Francis Bullen, The Elms, Kaikoura. The late Mr Bullen was born at Fulham, Somersetshire. la 1853, with his brother Frederick, he emigrated to Melbourne, and both started work in a drapery shop there. In 1861 they came to New Zealand and started , business on their own account in Dunedin, establishing what became known as'Bullen's Corner. The Lite Mr G. F. Bullen afterwards bought a property in Otago, which he sold to the Australian Land Company, and which was known as the Clydevale estate. Then he and his brother bought the Skipper's Lea*e mine in South Otago. In 1886 Mr. G. F. Bullen acquired The Elms estate, about 6000 acres, which he owned up to his death. He also bought Greenhill's estate, Kaikoura, of 39,000 acres, which he iccently sold to a syndicate for sub-division and closer , settlement for about £200,000. At one time he I held property in Hendalle county, on j which he used to shear 100,000 sheep. The late Mr G. F. Bullen is survivod by two grown-up sons and five daughters, two of -whom are Mrs. J. Nixon and Mrs. Gilbert Anderson. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church. The steamer Wakatu will make a special trip from Lyttelton to Kaakoura, taking the body to the latter place, where the funeral will be held on Sunday next.