PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 58, 5 September 1914, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

— ,' ♦ Sir Ernest Rutherford left Wellington this morning for Waverley. The Chief Justice left for Auckland yesterday. Dr. S. L. Hasiett has arrived from Dunedin to taKe up the position of junior house surgeon at Wellington Hospital. Mr. Alex. Simpson, Official Assignee, who is making a good recovery from a serious illness, left last evening for Nelson. The Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Ward have gone to Christchurch in connection with the farewell to the Canterbury section of the Expeditionary Force. Mr. J. H. Upton, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, returned to Auckland yesterday. The Hon. T. Fergus, of Dunedin, another director of\the bank, was a passenger for Lyttelton by the Wahitie last evening. Captain H. M. W. Richardson. Adjutant of the sth (Wellington)' Regiment, is at present indisposed, suffering it is feared from an attack of appendicitis. It is hoped that an operation will not be necessary. An old identity, Mrs. Mary Leonard, 1 ffied at the Ohiro Home to-aay. Her funeral leaves cjd. Mary of the Angels , Church, Boulcott-street, on Monday, at 1 9.30 a.m. Dr. Creelman, President of the Guelph Agricultural College, Ontario, will arrive I in Wellington from' Rotorua this afteri noon, accompanied _by Mrs. Creelman. f An endeavour is being made to arrange for a lecture on agriculture to be de* livered at Christchurch. ' Councillor G. Frost, who went to Rangiora to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, Mr. William Luxton, re■turned to Wellington this morning. The late Mr. Luxton was an old resident of ( Rangiora, and one of the oldest members 'of the local Oddfellows' lodge • A^ Hokitika Press Association tele- ; gram states that Mr. John James Henderson, headmaster of the Arahura-road School since 1887, died early this moi'n« , ing. For several years he was president of the Westland Teachers' Institute. He leaves a widow and a growh-up family. Commissioner Richards, of the Salvation Army, will visit Gis,bome on the 19th instant ; and on the 21st instant will formally open a home. He visits Napier on 24th, Hastings on 25th, Palmerston North on the 26th and 27th, and on Tuesday, the 29th, he will open a sale of work at South Wellington. Included among the scientists expected to arrive in Wellington by the Warrimoo next Tuesday are Professor E. W. Brown, from Yale University, a prominent astronomer, and Professor Nicholson, mathematician of King's College, London. Professor Brown's advice as to the most suitable place for an observatory 'will, no doubt, be obtained. Professor Dickson, a distinguished English chemist, is due to arrive at Auckland to-morrow. He will tour New Zealand. The funeral of the late Mr. W. C. Gasquoine, who recently retired from the position of general manager of the State Coal Mines Department, took place this morning, and was largely attended. Amongst those present were several officers ot the State Coal Mines Department, the directors of the Opera House Company, the Thorndon Bowling Club, the Empire Box Company, and J. Staples and Co., Ltd., and representatives of the Thorndon Catholic Parish. Before the cortege moved away to Karon solemn requiem mass was celebrated in the Basilica by the Rev. Father Kimbell (brother-in-law of the deceased gentleman), the Rev. Father Tymons (Administrator of the Thorndon Parish), and the Rev. Father Smith acting as deacon and sub-deacon respectively. Father Kimbell also officiated at the grave-side. The chief mourners were Mr. Martin Kennedy (uncle) and Mr. Cecil Gasquoine and Master Kennedy Gasquoine (sons).