PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 139, 9 December 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

A Press Association message from Sydney tins morning states that Lord and Lady Islington sailed on Saturday by the steamer Osterley. The Hon. W. F. Massey is expected to arrive from the South tomorrow, and the Hon. J. Allen on Wednesday. - Major-General Godley will be present at the luncheon to be tendered to Ad* miral Sir George King-Hall by the New Zealand Club tomorrow. Dr. Herbert was on Friday last operated on. for an acute attack of appendicitis. He is progressing favourably, and hopes to be about again very shortly. During the absence of the Hon. J. Allen in England the Hon. W. Fraser will be Minister of Finance, the Hon. U. H. Rhodes Minister of Defence, and the Hon. H. D. Bell Minister of Education. Mr\ Robert Hannah is returning to Wellington by the Orsova, due in Sydney on 2nd January. He spent some time on the Continent before he caught the steamer at Naples. His present intention is to reach Wellington on Bth January. The Very Rev, Dean Regnanlt and Rev. Fathers Hickson, Bartley, J. Her-i ring, Hurley, and A. Herring, left by the Main Trunk train to-day to attend the obsequies of the Jate Rev. Father Costello at talmeraton North to-morrow morning. Mr. F. V. Waters, Chief Clerk of the Post and Telegraph Department, has, as foreshadowed in- The Post a few days ago, been appointed Assistant-Secretary of that Department. Mr. Waters entered the Department in 1874. and since 1878 has been connected with the General Post Office. Mr. Orton Stevens, general manager in New Zealand for the National- Mutual Life Association of Australasia, is a passenger by the Manuka, due* in Wei- , lington from Sydney on Wednesday. During Mr. Stevens's absence Mr. Robert Dixon, the accountant, has been in charge in Wellington. Captain Duigan, at present attached to the training branch of the New Zealand Defence headquarters staff, will leave Wellington on 20th December' to enter upon a two years' course at the military college at Quetta, India. He will be the first New. Zealand officer admitted to the college. The remains of the late Mr. J. T. Hopkins, public health inspector, who , was fatally injured through falling down a hold of the lonic, were interred in the Karori Cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Those present included members of Lodge Ulstel and Lodge Hinemoa, to which the deceased had belonged. Re*. Father' Cognet, of Otaki, is seriously ill at the Catholic Presbytery in Boulcott-street, Rev, Father De Lach, from the flame district, who has also come to Wellington for treatment, is almost well again. The Rev. Father Paul Genisty, a recent arrival from France, is doing duty at Otaki at present. Messrs. C. Smith (president), W. Berry (vice-president), C. Palliser. and D, M'Lean, of the Wellington Bowling Club, who nave been on a holiday trip to the Old Country for some months past, were welcomed back to tho club on Saturday afternoon. Play was stopped for the occasion, and the returned bowlers were the subjects of a congratulatory speech from Mr. A. Hamilton (ex-president). During his absence Mr. C. Smith was elected president of the Club and Mr. Berry vicepresident, and both those gentlemen expressed full appreciation of tho high honour that hpd been conferred upon them. Great regret was felt by the Roman Catholic community of Wellington yesterday, when it was announced in the charges that the Rev. Father Costello, of Palmerston North, had died suddenly on Saturday afternoon. The late priest, who was fifty-three years of age, was a native of Ireland, and educated at the Catholic College at Ennis, County Clare. He came to New Zealand for the benefit of his health, and subsequently returned to Ireland after paying a visit to South America. Later, for health reasons, he again came _ to New Zealand, and was for some time stationed at Thorndon,-and also at Auckland, Westport, and Marton. For the last seven years he has been parish priest at Palnierßton North, and for some time past has been in very poor health. On Saturday afternoon the Very Rev. Deans O'Shea and Holley, who were passing through Palmerston North, called on Father Costello at, the presbytery, but on the housekeeper going up to his room she fotind him dead in his bed, death being evidently dtie to heart failure. He had only one relation in New ZealandMrs. Costello, of New Plymouth, who is a first cousin. He has several relations in Australia, including the Right Rev. Dr. Chine, Bishop of Perth. At all the Catholic churches in Wellington yesterday reference was made to the sad occurrence, and the "Dead March" in "Saul" was played at the Sacred Heart Church at the close of the evening service*.