PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey and the Hon. J. Allen aro at Dtmedin. The Hon. A. L. Herdman returned, from the South yesterday. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes will leave for the South this evening. ""' Sir Joseph Ward returned from_ the Mctflborottgh district on Saturday night, and left last night for Auckland. Mr. L. M'Kay, the well-known amateur champion pole-vaulter, who has be«n seriously ill, is making a satisfnc tory recovery. Mr. Albert A. Corrigan, of the firm of A. A. Corrigan, Wellington, who has arranged to go Horn© on business, has booked a passage by tho R.M.S. Niagara leaving Auckland for Vancouver on 3rd July. Mr. Seed, who has recently retired from the position of inspector to the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, will be presented, ■with a farewell gift at a meeting of the committee to-morrow afternoon^ Mr. S. M. Vaughan, of North Canterliury, returned to New Zealand by the Rotoru* to-day, after an absence of two years, during which time he has engaged in the wool business at Bradford. Mr. Vaughan is accompanied by his wife. Mr. John Beveridge, late president of the Wellington Licensed Victuallers' Association, who is about to leave for Christchurch, is to be farewelled at the ■ Empire Hotel next Thursday afternoon by the Wellington Licensed Victuallers' Association. Mr. E. Beckway, secretary and librarian of St. Hilda's Sunday School, Island Bay, who is leaving the district, vas presented with an afternoon test service on Sunday afternoon. The vicar, Rev. C. W. 1. Maclaverty, made the presentation. Mr, Jdhii Can*, who joined the lithographing <rt«.ff of the Government Printing Office- 23 years ago and became subforeman, rel/ir«l on euperannuation on Saturday. Before ha left he was presented by Mr. Sturtevanb, on behalf of ' the employees in the department, with a silver tobacco i;{ise and match box. Mr. C. <1. Reakes, Director of the Livcetock Division, and Mr. James Duncan, Acting-Director of the Fields and Experimental Farms Division of the Department of Agriculture, leave for the South this evening to attend the Dunedin Winter Show, which will be opened ■ by the 'Prime Minister to-morrow. The respect in which the late Mr. ®liver Death; a well-known settler in the Horokiwi Valley, was held was shown by the large attendance at his funeral. The deceased, was was 51 yeai'B of age }| was the youngest son of the late Mr. Robert Death, and was born at the Lower Hutt, When he was about 14 years old ho settled in the Pahautanui district and remained there until his death. He had only been seriously ill for three days. The interment was made in the Pahautauui Cemetery, the Rev. Mr. Isaacson officiating at the graveside. The late Mr. Death, who has left «i widow and five children, was a member of the Oddfellows' Order, Manchester Unity,