PERSONAL MATTERS VICE-REGAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS VICE-REGAL.

His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool will leave for Rarotonga by the Wilfochra on Friday. Canon Garland, organiser of the Bible-in-State Schools League, was a passenger by the Maori from the South this morning. The Chief Justice has arrived in Falmerston North from Auckland,, and will transact Supreme Court work there before returning to Wellington. The Hon. J. Allen is on his way to Nelson, the Hon. W. H. Herries'is at Nelson, and the Hon. Dr. Pomare at Auckland. The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington. Mr. E. H. Hiley, General Manager of Railways; mr. H. Buxton, Chief Traffic Manager of Railways, and Mr. J. Burnett, Chief Engineer of Railways, have returned from the South. The following appointments are announced by the Public Service Commissioner: — Mr. A. N. Harrop, to be Chief Draughtsman, Hokitika ; and Mr. A. D. Burns, to be Chief Draughtsman, Nelson. A life full of adventure has been closed by the death at Balclutha of Mr. Edwin Waters, at the age of 84. He left Cornwall for Victoria in 1851, and was at Ballarat at the time of the Eureka Stockade riot. Once he had a claim at Fiery Creek, Victoria, and made over £3000 in a very short time. However, he lost it all inside of about two months. He was one of the leaders of the European miners in the episode of Lemon's Flat, Queensland, where the whTte men took the law in their own hands and cleared out over 2000 Chinese from the field. He and a party narrowly missed leaving their bones in the Queensland wilds, their water-supply running out. Mr. Waters came over to New Zealand in 1862 in the celebrated clipper ship Lightning, and made for Gabriel's Gully diggings. No luck there sent him on to the Dunstan, and there was not a diggings in Otago and very few on the West Coast that he did not in turn visit. On one occasion he and his mates rigged up a boat out of bullock's hide and crossed the 'Molyneux to Balcjutha. Pie was very well acquainted with the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon in .the diggings days, and worked alongside of him on several fields, Advice was received in Wellington today of the death at Napier this morning of Mr. Percy H. Kelly, managing director of the firm of Messrs. Richardson and Co., and a well-known figure in business and shipping circles. It is only just over a week ago that the late Mr. Kelly spoke at a meeting addressed by the Right Hon. W. F. Massey at Napier, and announced himseli as the "Reform" candidate for that seai at the next General Election. He told the meeting then that he arrived in Napier 32 years ago as a boy five years old, and that he was educated at the public school in that town. He had taken a prominent part in both rowing and football. His business career commenced with the Union Company, but later he took a position with Messrs. Williams and Kettle, and when 25 years of ago he was placed in charge of the firm's wool and shipping department. Shortly afterwards ho joined Mepsrs. Richardson and Co., and when 30 years of age he became manager, five years later being appointed managing director. He leaves a widow and three children. A Press Association telegram fiom Napier states that Mr. Kelly's death occurred with tragic suddenness. His face became somewhat swollen at the end of last week, and yesterday acute blood poisoning developed and he rapidly saok A ft