PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister for Customs and Marine, came back from Auckland yesterday afternoon. Captain R. Todd, chief representative in New _Zealand_ of the Commonwealth and Dominions Line,, Ltd., returned from Sydney by the Warrimoo yesterday. ' Mr. and M*rs. A. E. Mabin, of Wellington, will leave London for New .Zealand on 18th September, and are due back here at the end <|f next month. A Press Association telegram from Palmerston states that Mr. James Thorn has been selected by the local Social Democratic Party to contest the Palmerston North seat. Sir Charles Bowen, Speaker of the Legislative Council, who met with a. tramcar accident on Lambton-qttay last week, is feeling much better to-day, and it is hoped mat he will be able to get about again in a day or two. A cablegram from Sydney, received last night through the Press Aesocia" tion, Teports that Mr. Eaile Hermann, a director of Bowron Brothers Export Trading Company, has beefl. unwell for some time, and id now an inmate in a. hospital. Mr. J. W. Henderson, manager of the Control Agency Company, Wellington, and a. member of the Karori Borough Council, was attacked by illness while on a business visit to Dunedin. A tele- ' gram received by his relatives at Karori states that his condition is improving. The funeral of the late Mr. Henry James Freeman, which took place yesterday afternoon, was largely attended hy | his many friends, and among those present were several representative business men. The Rev. J. G. Chapman officiated at the graveside, and also conducted the ceremony at the house before the cortßge left. The Masonic service was conducted by four of the deceased gentleman's oldest and most esteemed friends, namely, tho Rev. Thomas Porritt, and Bros. H. J. Williams, H. Bridge, and H. Seaton. Mr. Freeman was a prominent Mason, and over 100 brethren were present. Messrs. Seaton, Cornell, Scott, j and Tamblyn, members 6f the Pacific I Lodge, acted as. pall-bearers. The New Zealand Alliance wa3 represented by the Rev. J. Dawson and Mr. R. G. Denton, j while Messrs. F. Grady and P. Still represented ma-ster watchmakers and jewellers. Various other institutions sent representatives, besides many beautiful floral tributes. The chief mourners were two sons, Henry and Charles. The interment wag made in the Sydney-street Cemetery. : The dea,th took place at Foilding this morning of Mr. John Twist, a very old resident of Wellington, well known in building > circles as an expert craftsman. Mr. Twist was born in Prescot, Lancashire, England, in 1840, and arrived at Lyttelton in the ship Amoor in 1864, coming on to_ Wellington during tho year. He continued to reside here until a few ( months back, ( when he removed to Feilding to live with a son. He wa» connected with the construction of a large number of buildings that were erected in this city in the early days. Mr. Twist was married in 1868 to Miss Grace Whebby, a daughter of Air. T. Whobby, who arrived in Wellington by the ship Clifton on 3rd October, 1841, and who was for many years associated with tho progress of affairs in. Oriental Bay in the early days. Mr. Twist is survived by six sons— Messrs. T. W. Twist (Wellington], R, H. Twist (Olmkea), C. E. Twist (Greenmoadows). J. N. Twist {Feilding), E. A. Twist (Waipawa), J. A. Twist (Waipukurau)— and one daughter^ Mrs. F, H. Meyer (Foxton). His wife died in 1895.