PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency tha Governor will preside at the opening of the Municipal Conference at 10 a.m. to-morrow, and will take lunch with the delegates at 1 p.m. On Wednesday next the Earl ana Countess of Liverpool wil 1 attend the races at Trentham, and on Thursday night will be present at the Race Club ball. On Friday afternoon Their Excellencies will attend an afternoon to be given by Mrs. H. D. Bell in the Town Hall. On Saturday next they will attend the races at Trentham, and that evening His Excellency will be the guest of the president of the W.R.C. at dinner in the Wellington Club. As there was some doubt as to whether Mr. H. F. Toogood would after all' be a candidate for the Christchu'roh North seat on account of his having been offered the position of engineer to the Patea Harbour Board (says the Christchufoh Press), Mr. D. Jones states that he has received information from Mr. Toogood that he will adhere to his decision to stand for the seat, and will decline the appointment that has been offered him at Patea. Mr. T. E. King, who died suddenly at Milton-road, Auckland, at the age of 73 years, was a Maori war veteran. Mr< King arrived in New Zealand, in the year 1845, being then only four years old. After some years' residence in the Fiji Group he returned to Auckland in 1862, joined Colonel Whitmore's force, and took part in the Waikato war. He subsequently entered the service of the Union Company, and was employed in the head office of the company for thirty years. Mr. King retired about two years .ago, and resided in Auckland up to the time of his death. Takarangi Mete Kingi, a well-Jcnown Maori chief, of Ptitiki, near Wanganui, died on Saturday, aged 69 years. He fought with the "friendlies" during the Maori War on the West Coast of the North Island, and was present, 49 years ago, on the 20th July, 1865, at -the taking of the Wereroa Pa, to the south of Hawera, which Titokowaru's followers had abandoned after a sharp encounter. Mr. T. W. Fisher the present Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, who was at that time a member of the Transport Corps, was present at the Wereroa engagement, and speaks in high terms of Mete Kingi's bravery on that and other occasions. He was a splendid type of tho old Maori chief, and was held in great esteem by the Europeans as well as the Maoris along the West Coast. Mr. James Matheson, of Dunedin, whose death by drowning was reported hi. a London cablo last week, was a mV tive of Scotland, aged 81 (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent). He arrived in Dunedin in the early days," and followed the pursuit of a stock dealer in Otago, being well known and highly respected by all with whom he came in contact. He retired a good many years ago, taking up his residence in Dunedin. In June, 1912, he made a tour of the Dominion, which he followed up by leaving Auckland a few months later for Canada, afterwards travelling through the United States, England} Scotland, and the Continent, returning to Dune.din quite unexpectedly in May of last year. Two months later he again left the Dominion ,for London, via Canada and the United States. In letters written to a friend in Dunedin he complained of having had a severe illness, as a result of a clot of blood on the brain. He held out hopes of complete, if somewhat slow, recovery, but was quite aware of his danger. Deceased had no relations in Dunedin. His wife died many years ago. A telegram from The Post's Auckland correspondent announces the death of Mr. George Fraser Brodie, youngest son of the late Mr. Alexander Brodie, for many years a prominent figure on the Thames goldfiekl and chairman of the_ Thama* County Council for a long period. Ihe late Mr. Brodie, who was born at the Thames thirty-five years ago, and was educated there, learnt the printing trade at the New Zealand Herald office, and after his apprenticeship joined the literal y staff of the New Zealand TimeSj and later of the Evening Post. He resigned his position on this journal to become sub-editor of the Taranaki Herald, but had to relinquish that appointment owing to ill-health. During his connection with journalism in Wellington Mr. Brodie took great in- 1 tei'est in Association football matters, and was for some time on the Managing Committee of the Wellington Football Association. He was also an active member of the choir of St. John's Presbyterian Church. Mr. Brodie was held >n great esteem by all who came in contact with him His eldest brother, Mr. Walter Brodie, is manager of 'the Bank of New Zealand at Te Aroh§,