PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor and the Counteßs of Liverpool will attend the opening performance of "The GirlMn the Train "at the Opera House to< morrow evening. The Hon. W. F. Maesey is in the Taupo district, the Hon. W. Fraser is in Central Otago, and the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is duo back to-day from Blenheim. The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington. Mr. G. F. 0. Campbell has been ap pointed a member of the Teachers' Superannuation Board, vice Mr. J. W. Poynton, resigned. Mr. G. F. Glen, superintendent of city reserves, was last evening granted by the City Council six weeks' leave of absence in order to visit Australia. Mr. Glen has not had a holiday since 1608. Last night, Mr. R. Cunliffe was, by a large majority, elected president of the Petonsi Working Men's Club. Mr. Darling was elected vice-president without opposition. Messrs. G. F. C. Campbell and W. R. Morris are gazetted members of the Civil Service Officers' Guarantee Board under the Civil Service Act. The Revs. W. R. Hutchison and M.' B. Harris (Presbyterian), Rev. A. H. Wallace (Congregational Independent), Mr. C. iC. Brown (Church of Christ), Major J. T. Toomer and Major W. J. Hottfe (Salvation Army) are gazetted officiating ministers under the Marriage Act. Mr. R. Aitken, who has for the past twenty-three years been a member of the Napier staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.i latterly holding the position of accountant, has been appointed to take charge of .the company's Feilding agency. He is succeeded at Napier by Mr. M. G. Watson, accountant at the OamarU branch. Mr. Robert Williams, soft goods expert to the Customs, has severed his connection with the Department. He has intentions of re-entering commercial life in Australia. At present it is not intended to make another appointment to the position he vacates, as the debatable points in connection with the 1907 tariff, upon which the advice of an expert was required, have been very few. Messrs. W. I. Shanly, M. Maxton, and Watson (of the Public Works Department), left Greytown on Wednesday at 12,30, arrived at Mount Hector at 6 p.m., and at the camp in' the Tauherenikftu Valley at 8 p.m. They are trying to find a shorter route by examining different ridges down from Reeves and up to Omega. The party will go on to Alpha on Saturday, and thence proceed to Otaki, Referring to the death of Mr. M. J. O'Donnell, a well-known resident of Hawera, which oceufted suddenly^ while he was asleep, the Star says: "Mr. O'Donnell wm born in India during the Indian Mutiny, and he came to the Dominion thirty years ago, when he joined the Armed Constabulary. Later he became a member of the Polke Force, was stationed At Blenheim, and then in charge at Picton, where he was also Clerk of the Court. Nineteen, years ago he resigned from the Force, and started a drapery business in Hawera, which he hatf ever since conducted. The late Mr. O'Donnell had been a justice of the peace for fifteen years ; and was always ready to give a helping hand in the Court work. Deceased leaves a widow and grown-up family, of whom one son is in England as an ecclesiastical student. Sympathetic reference to the death of the late Mr. O'Donnell was made in the Magistrate's Court. Mr. Kenrick, 8.M.; said he had heard with very much regret of Mr. O'Donnell's death^ as a justice of the peace he had done his duty well, and had always been ready to take police work whenever he (the Magistrate) was absent. He was sorry indeed that he had died, especially as his death was so sadden} and on behalf of the Court and its officers he wished to say how thankful he was to the late Mr. O'Donnell for his services in connection with the Court. Sergeant Griffith said that the deceased justice of the peace had done much thoughtful and hglpful service . lor the police." As the late Mr. Hugh Roea was a lieutenant in the Post and Telegraph corps, and had also seen service in South Africa a* & member of the First Contingent, hie body was interred at Karori thia morning with military honours. The coffin, covered with the Union Jack, was borne to the grav«eide on a gun carriage, preceded by tho band of the sth Regiment, under Mr. H. M'Comwh. No. 7 Company (the Post and Telegraph corps), under Major Harton and Captain S. J. Bolton, muetered in force. A detachment of the Permanent Artill«ry and r^preeentativee of other local corps and the First Contingent also attended, as well' ac members of the Wellingtoni Post Office Savings Bank staff, Marten Post and Telegraph staff, the Southern Cross Lodge of Oddfellows, and a large number of the general public. Deceased's eon (Master B. Raw), brother (Mr. W. Ross)', and Mr. Bett were .the chief mourners. The following, who were members of tho First Contingent, acted as ■pallbearers j — Major Hughes, and Comrades Bould, Rockstrow, Newman, Home, Cromie, Franklin, Pitt, Brown, Butters, Wiffm, Parkee, Burr, Glasgow. The firing party was supplied by the Post and Telegraph corps, and the "Last Post" was sounded over the grave by Corporal Johnston. Chaplains Shirer and Conipton conducted the burial Bervice. A« a member of the First Contingent, Mr. Ross took part in all the operations around Coleeburg, was present at the defence of New , Zealand Hill, and was amongst those -who relieved Kimberley and advanced on Pretoria.