PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

■a» The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Postmaster GeneraJ, returned from Christchurch this morning. The Hen. J. Allen, Minister of Defence came back from Aucklahd yesterday afternoon. Mr. Justice Hosking will probably leave Lyttelton for Wellington to-night. Mr. Herbert Bloy has been appointed conductor of the Royal Wellington Choral Society for a term of twelve mouths. Mr. T. M. Donovan, manager of "Everybody's Pictures," who underwent an operation at Nurse Lucas's private hospital, is making a good recovery. Mr. Albert M. Maries, chairman, of directors of Hancock and Co., brewers, Auckland, who was at one time a resident of Wellington, died in London last week. Colonel R. J. Collins, who went to Auckland to attend _ a, meeting of the council of the Dominion Bowling Association, returned to Wellington yesterday. Captain G. R. H. Webb (a son of the late Colonel W. H. Webb, of Wellington), has been .appointed officer commanding the Electric Lights Singapore Defence Corps, v Mr. Ernest Short (president) and Mr. W. T. Penny (secretary) of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, arrived in Wellington this afternoon, on business connected with the November show. Mr. William Scott, who had previously decided to retire from the position of employers' representative on the Arbitration Court, has reconsidered his decision, and will still remain a member of the Court. The following officers of the Wellington Society of Professional Musicians have been elected :■ — President, Mr. Bernard F. Page; vice-presidents, Messrs. ■Laurence Watkius, Mus. Bac.,.*and Herbert Bloy; secretary, Mr. H. Temple White; treasurer, Mr. Leo Buckeridge; council, Misses Denhard and Segnef, Messrs. F. R. Johnstonc, C. W. Kerry, Hamilton Hodges, and C. H. Stephens, j An old identity of the Forty-mile Bush passed away on Friday last in the person of Mr. F. W Dowsett, of Newman (says the Wairarapa Daily Times). The deceased, who was seventy-three years of age, arrived at Wellington in 1857, and was for a number of years engaged in the bakery business. He was chairman of the Karori-Makara Road Board, audt afterwards opened a store on the Terawhiti goldnelds. In 1880 he went to Newman with his family, where he occupied the position of postmaster and registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. He was chairman of the Newman Domain Board and for a number of years a member of the Eketahuna County Council. _ He was also a prominent horticulturist. The death took place at New Plymouth last week of the Rev. Father Kehoe, aged 74 years. Father Kehoe was a native of Dublin, where he received part of hid education, completing it in the Irish College at- Rome, where he for a time occupied the pos^ion of vice-president. After his ordinarion to the priesthood he worked for, some time in his native city, and later went to Adelaide. The climate proving uncongenial, he volunteered to come over to New Zealand, and worked in the Auck*land diocese for close on thirty years. Some three years ago_ declining health forced him to resign his charge, and he took up his residence in Palmel'ston North, eventually going to New Plymouth. Father Kehoe was in his day an able preacher and a very accomplished musician. The death in Christchurch, at th« age of 75, of Mr. J. H. Short, recalls tho • fact that deceased had supervised the erection of freezing works buildings in nearly every part of New Zealand. In 1894 he took in hand the first works on Waterloo-quay, Wellington, and at Ngahauranga. In 1897 he engaged in the building trade ngain, making his headquarters at Wellington, where he was inspector of works for important buildings. Amongst these may be mentioned premises in this city for Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., W. M. Bannatync and Co.. Anderson and Co., and the Loan and Mercantile Company, the Empire Hotel, tho Bank of Australasia, the Union Bank of Australia, and the Town, Hall. At the opening ceremony in the Town Hall in 1903, Mr. Short was publicly thanked for his services by the x M&yor of Wellington 1 . Deceased arrived in Lyttelton from Hobart in 1861, when he was il years of age, and before he took up an appointment under Mr. Coxon, C.E., an expert in refrigerating matters, he was in business as a builder in Christchurch. He has left a widow, a daughter of the late Mr. J. Ballinger, Ferry-road, Christchurch.