PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) left on a brief visit to Auckland by last night's Main Trunk express. \ Messrs. Myers, Bradney, Dickson, Harris, Coates. and Payne, M.P.'s, left for Auckland last night. • ' Mr. G. L. Stewart, secretary of the Wellington Education Board, will return from the South on Friday. Mr. Justice Hosking, Mr. Justice Stringer, and Sir Geo. Clifford arrived in Wellington from the South this morning. Mr. J. B. Mawaon, of the Palmerston North High School Staff, has been appointed to the Wellington Boys' College staff. Mr. Frect Gualter, who has been managing a large station near the Queeas* land' New South Wales border, arrived in Wellington last night on a healthrecruiting trip. Mr. T. J. King, o£ the Marine Department, who joined the Expeditionary Force, has been appointed to the Headquarters Divisional Staff as pay* sergeant. Sergeant King is well known in local swimming circles aad as a member of the Oriental Football Club. Tho death of Mr. James Lomax, o£ Wanganui, at the age of 92, ib announced. The deceased settled afc Wanganui in 1854, and has resided there ever since. _ His wife predeceased him only about six months. He leaves fool' sons— Mr. J. Lomax, of Otaki ; others residing at Melbourne, Waikato, and Feilding— and two married daughters at Stratford. The remains of the late Mr, George Thomas Goldsmith, who ( died at the Wellington Hospital white under an anaesthetic on Thursday last, were interred in the Karori Cemetery on Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Balk' cney officiated at the graveside. The late Mi*. Goldsmith was a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Goldsmith, of Napier, and a brother of Nurse Goldsmith, late of Wellington. Constable Holmes, of the Mount Cook Police Station, who, as an Imperial reservist, is going to the front, received a presentation last night from the members of the Force at the station. On behalf of those present Senior-Sergeant Dow and Detective-Sergeant Ca&sefls assured the recipient that as long as ho was away he need have no worry abou* his wife and child, as his comrades would guarantee their support. Mr. Thomas Wilton, whose death at Masterton was announced in these columns yesterday, was (saye the Waira* rapa Daily Times) bom in England in 1832, aJid came to Wellington with his parents in the Oriental in the 'forties. In the 'seventies he went to Masterton with his brothers Charles and William. For come years he had a store at Upper Plain } a«d later he was engaged in the carrying business. Mrs. Wilton died some nineteen years ago. The deceased was very highly respected for h« m*ny sterling qualities. Sir John Jelltcoe, Oommander-in»Chief of Britain's Navy; had the narrowest squeak of his life when, the Victoria went down off Tripoli in June, 1893, states a Lcndon journalist. Commander Jellicoe, as he then was, lay in his bunk in the grin o£ a high fever when the fatal collision occurred, but. staggered to the bridge in his pyjamas, reaching his appointed station just as the fated warship plunged her nose beneath the water. With most others who were on deck, the Commander was hurled into I the sea, and, too weak with fever to do much to savo himself, was tugged from the maelstrom by a heroic middy.