PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. .His Excellency the Governor returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Colonei H. Boscawen, who held the position of resident hOhOrary A.D.C. in Auckland to Lord Islington, has been appointed to the same position on the staff of the Earl of Liverpool. Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool will be present at the meeting of members of the Overseas Club arid others interested, to he held in% the Sydney-street Schoolroom this evening. The Mayor is to preside. In case there should be any misapprehension, it may be mentioned that there will be no formality in the matter of dress. The Hdn. W. F, Massey is engaged in making an inspection of the TaupoTotara Timber Compahy's private railway line. The Hon. W. Fraser >is in OtagO, and the Hon. F. M. B. -Fisher is opening the Waira^ bridge this afternoon, The other Cabinet Ministers am in Wellington. Mr. F. W. Flanagan, Valuer-General, returned from a holiday trip to Australia yesterday. Mr. J. Mackenzie, purveyor-General, is on a visit of inspection of the Southern srirvey offices. „ The Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Rector of St. Patrick's College, is conducting the annual retreat of the Roman Catholic clergy of the Auckland diocese. . Mr. F< G. Dalziell. chairman of directors oi the Taupo-Totara Timber Company, 'is accompanying the Prime Minister in his inspection of the company's property, • , ' Mr. James Bennie, architect, of Wellington, has returned from Australia, whither he went to pick up the latest ideas in theatre construction and hygienic bread-baking methods. The R6V, B. Dudtey, of Bluff, hag' received woifd that he nas been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Mr. Dudley became a member of the British Astronomical Association in 1911. Mr. A. H .Holmes. Clerk of the Magistrate's Court, left for Palmersten North to-day, having received word that his sister, Mrs. W. f H. Brewster, of Feilding 2 died in a private hospital there this morning. The Very ReV, Dr. Geaney, S.M., D.D., who has been studying in Rome for the last three years, was a passenger from Sydney, by the Ulimaroa yesterday. It is anticipated that he will be appointed Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's Seminary, Greentneadows. Miss Ellen D. R. Lankshear (only daughter of Mr. W. J. Lankshear) passed the matriculation examination, and also qualified for the Engineering Preliminary. Her name was mutilated in transmission byj telegraph from »• Auckland, in which city the Senate of New Zealand University is sitting. A Press Association telegram from Carterton states:— Constable Carmody, aged 35 years, in charge of the Carter ton Police Station, died this morning. He leaves a wife, and four children-^the eldest five years old, and the youngest four monthß. The funeral will take place at Napier on Sunday next. Mr. Gus. Anketell, who has been on the office staff of Munt, Cottfell, and Co., Ltd., for the past nine years, and lately has not been in the best of health, has been advised to spend a few months' holiday in the country. He was on Tuesday afternoon the recipient of tangible tokens of goodwill from the firm and his fellow employees. Mr. John Fuller, sen., of the BrennanFitller Proprietary, arrived in Wellington yesterday from Sydney by the Ulimaroa, and will remain here for about a week. During his stay in Australia Mr. Fuller went the round of his firm's places of amusement, and at each he delighted the audience by singing some of the old favourite songs. Mr. Fuller's tenor voice has lost little Of lie freshness since he settled in New Zealand, and next Monday visitors to His Majesty's Theatre will have the opportunity of hearing him once more. Mr. Hugh Ross, a member of the First Contingent which New Zealand sent to the Boer War, died at his residence at Kelburne yesterday. The deceased was born in Scotland thirty-five years ago, and was brought to New Zealand when a child by 'his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ross, both of whom died in PalmerstOn North. On the death of his parents he was taken charge of by Mrs. Bett, of Marton (now of Turakina), and was brought up by- her until he reached man's estate. He was educated at the State School, Marton. and afterwards entered the Post Office there. While working in that town he volunteered for service in South Africa, and was accepted. Returning to New Zealand, he was sent into the Auckland Post and Telegraph Office, and was afterwards transferred to the Post Office Savings Bank in Wellington, retaining Iris position there until his death. About a month ago he underwent an operation for appendicitis, and another w»b performed yesterday, complications having set in. About nine years ago he was married to Miss Florence Marsh, of Petone, who survives him. He has also left a child. The lateßfr. Ross, who was a lieutenant in the Post and Telegraph Rifles, was popular with all who knew him.