PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. ■' The Governor and the Countess of Liverpool arrived back in Wellington from Gisborne last night, and went on to Lyttelton by the Wahine. The Hon. James Allen left Wellington for Dunedin last night. Chief Judge Palmer, of he Native Land Court, left for Auckland yesterday. Commissioner Rodder, of the Salvation Army, returned from Wanganui last, night. Mt l . D. C Bates, the Dominion Meteorologist has gone- to Taranaki on official business. The Rev. Dr. Gibb, of St. John'a Church, Wellington, returned from Gis* borne this morning. Sir James Carroll intends to visit To Aroha for the purpose of undergoing special medical treatment. Mr. C. B. Morison, K.C., was a passenger from Wellington by last night's Auokland-bou id express. Mr. D. J. Nathan, ot Wellington, has reached Vancouver from Europe and will leave there for Auckland by the Niagara to-morrow. The death occurred in Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's Home of Compassion at. Island Bay this mornihg of Mrs. Mary O'Brien, an old resident of Wellington, at the advanced age of 98. The deceased's husband, Mr. Lawrence O'Brien, predeceased her bjr a number of years. Mr. C. J. O'Brien, of the Hutt, is one of her grandsons. Amongst the passengers from Sydney by the Moeraki to-day Were Mr. David Mills, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company at Sydney for many years, who is en route to Dunedin on furlough ; Mr. H. W. Lever, manager of the Wel« lington branch of the Bank of New South Wales, who has been on a visit to Great Britain and the Continent; Mr. Fred Nathan (Messrs J. E. Nathan and Co.}, who Went to Australia some weeks ago; and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Anyon, who have returned to Wellington after spending some years in New South Wales. On Saturday last Mr. Nicholas Golding, of New Plymouth, celebrated Ins ninety-seventh birthday. A local paper says :— " As a child of five or six years he distinctly recollects his great grands mother and her death at the very advanced age of 120 years. She was a native of the town of Stafford, Ml the Midlands, England. This old lady, Mrs. Montgomery, was born in the first yeav of the reign of Queen Anne, the la*t of the Stuart dynasty— l7o4— ud that the two lives of Mr. Nicholas Goldine and his great grandmother form a link eJt» tending back for 211 years. His ancestor. who was bom before the great battles of the Duke of Marlborough had been fought and won, and was old enough to participate in and remembers the festivities that occurred on the coming to the throne of England in 1714 of the first Sovereign of the present dynasty in the person of George the First, and their joint Hvcb cover a period m which nine Sovereigns have occupied the throne of England, two of whom reigned for 118 yettw."