PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

.. r»n „i, i The Right Hon. W, F, Massey, Prime Minister, will probably leave for Auckland on Saturday nextj and on ' Monday will attend the opening of the Medical Congress which is to be held in Auckland He will subsequently turn the first sod of the branch line pf railway to Waiuku. Sir Joseph Ward arrived in Wellington by the Main Trunk express yesterday afternoon. The Hon. J. Allen, Minister of finance, is expected to return to Wellington to-morrow. The Hon. W, Fraser, Minister of Pub* lie Works, left for Kawhia last evening. He will return to Wellington in about a iweek. Messrs, Halleti and SchoMd ( Dun« \ cdin representatives on the Pharhmrdy Board, leave for Auckland on Friday to a-ttend the biennial conference to be held there next week. Mr. H. L, Machell, of Wellington, has been admitted as a barrister by his Honour the Chief Justice, on the motion of Mr, F, E, Petheriek, Mr. Ma-c-hell graduated at Cambridge in 18?3\ •' wag admitted as a solicitor in England in 1876 and in New Zealand in 1905. The death is .reported, by our Dunedin correspondent bf Mr. A. H. tiurton, in his eightieth year- He recently resigned the position of judge of the elocutionary section at the Westland 8o« ci&ty's Competitions, to be held next month, and his daughter, Miss O. E. Burton, was appointed in his place. Mr. George Girling-Butcher, organising secretary of the New Zealand Catholic Federation, who during*the past fortnight has been delivering lectures in Auckland city and suburban parishes on the aims and objects of the federation, has gone further north. At the conclusion of his northern tour Mr. Butcher ;will visit the Goldflelds and the Waikato. Mr. G. Warwick, an old and respected resident of Wellington, who died at his residence, Adelaide-road, last week, aged 73, landed in Wellington by the Alma on 15th May, 1867. He then transshipped to Wanganui and served in the Maori war, returning to Wellington in 1876. where he resided till his death, (Me left a widow, five eons, and two daughters, The death has just occurred at Wigan of Mr. John Finch, a great uncle (the Newcastle Chronicle says) of the late R, J- Seddon. Mr. Finch, who was 91 years of age, and came of a particularly long-lived family, had spent most of his life in various occupations connected with the Lancashire mining industry. Hie eldest son is 68 years of age, and his father died when within a few days of 100 years. The Lower Hutt District High School Committee has. selected Mr. A. M. Burns, M.A., headmaster of the District High School, Cartel-ton, and Mr. H. Henderson, 8.A., second assistant at the District High School, Bulls, to fill the positions of headmaster and first assistant respectively at the main school, Lower 'Hutt. Mr. A. M'Bain, headmaster oi the Manakau School, has been selected by ths committee as headmaster of the Eastern Hutt School, the status of which has been raised from a semiinfant school to that of a full school. Mr. Alexander M'Vicar, chief instructor of tho engineering classes at tho Wellington Technical School, who has just received intimation that he has been elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, was attached to the Government Inspection of Machinery Department previous to joining the school staff. For some five or six years he has conducted the engineering classes at the Technical School, and in that capacity has achieved a very considerable measure of success with his pupils, particularly in connection ,with marine engineering. The Rev, Sister Mary Vianney, sister of Miss C. M. Godsell, of the accountant's branch, General Post Office, died on Sunday at the Convent of the Sißters of the Mission, Nelison. The deceased lady, who v/&& only in her twentyseventh year, taught musi« at the convent, and her pupils were very successful at the last examinations conducted by the Trinity College and Royal Aca,detny of Music. Sister Vianney was forced to take to her bed the day of the examinations, over three months ago, and gradually sank, despite every care. The interment took placJfe at Nelson yesterday afternoon,