PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. J. Lewis, secretary of the New i Zealand Patriotic Society, is leaving on a visit to Hawkes Bay for the purpose of forming branches of the National Reserve. Mr. D. C. Bates, the Government Meteorologist, has returned from Taraiiaki, whither he went to arrange for the re-establishment of the meteorological observatory at the new accommodation house. He also selected a site for a.n observatory at the New Plymouth Park, of which Mr W. Smith has been appointed observer. Detective-Sergeant J. Caeeells, who has done excellent work id Wellington for several yeaa-s, is about to rejoin tho uniform branch, with, the rank of senior sergeant, and be promoted to the charge of the Hamilton Station. Sergeant Cassidy, of the Manners-street Station, is to bo transferred to Chrietchurch. These, iuid the other police changes announced in The Post last Thursday, are to take effect a. fortnight hence. An old resident passed away this morning in the person of Mr. Stewart Morton, of Wadestown, where he had resided for about forty years. Mr. Morton, whose age was eighty -four, was well known and respected in the northern suburbs, where many buildings were erected by him in years gone by. For some time past he 'had been laid aside by the infirmities of age. Ho leaves two sons — Messrs. Stewart and James Morton, both of Wadestown. To mark the completion of his second year as manager and secretary of tho Empress Theatre, Mr. Russell J. A. Lister was presented on Thursday evening with a solid silver entree dish by the theatre stalf. Tho dish was inscribed : "Presented to Mr. and Mrs. Russell J: A. Lister, from the staff of the Empress Theatre. 1914, as a token of esteem." Mr. J. Dunn mado the presentation, on behalf of his colleagues. Mr. Lister voiced his appreciation of the expression of good will towards himself and Mrs. Lister. A. Victoria Cross hero, Mr. John Kenrick, died at Murchison last week, at the advanced age of 79 years (says the Greymouth Star). In his younger days Mr. Kenrick served in the Navy, and after his discharge emigrated to New Zealand. His Victoria Cross was awarded to him after the Maori war for conspicuous bravery in carrying a wounded officer to safety under heavy fire. For many years prior to his death, Mr. Kenlick had led a solitary life in a whare near the Maruia Gorge, earning a livelihood by gold-digging.