PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. H. D. Bell returned last night from a visit to Napier, Wairoa, and Lake Waikaremoana. The Hon. W. H. Herries left this afternoon for llolorua and Tauranga. He is due back in Wellington ou Sunday. The Hon. J. Allan and the lion. W. Fraser are due back in Wellington from tho South tomorrow. The Rev. W. Slade, of Dunedin, was n passenger by the Mitnuka from Sydney to-day. Mr. J. J*. Bourke, of Bourke, Wilson, and Co., leaves on Thursday next for England by the Remuera. Detective-Sergeant Kemp, of Napier, and Detective-Sergeant Ward, of Dunedin, are about to exchange places. Mr. J. 0. Duncan, of Levin and Co., returned to Wellington from Sydney by the Manuka to-day. Mr. T. F. Ramsay, sanitary and gas clerk to tho Invercargill Corporation, has resigned his position, and will leave on the 13th inst. for Airdie, Scotland, where he has secured a position. Mr. L. J. Lolit', at one timo a wellknown theatrical manager _ throughout Australia and New Zealand,, is an inmate of a private hospital in Melbourne, and is reported to be in a serious condition. Mr. William Crichton, the well-known Wellington architect, who has been on a trip to England, was a passenger by the Manuka from Sydney to-day. He ■was accompanied by Mrs. Crichton. Major J. B. M'Clymont, 14th (South Otago) Regiment, of the Otago Battalion of the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force, returned from Egypt by the Manuka which arrived from Sydney today. ,Mr. A. C. Mitchell, M.1.M.E., superintendent for Nivei' and Co., Ltd., Wellington, who is at present visiting Napier, has been made a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. Mr. J. W. Walker, who has been connected with mining ventures in the Auckland district for the past forty-five years, arrived in Wellington from the North this morning on business connected with the development at Waihi. Mr. Walter Manning, proprietor of tho Family Hotel, Otaki, died yesterday morning, after an illness extending over several weeks. Deceased, who was 47 years of age, was very popular in the district, and his death will be widely regretted. Mr. L. P. Pepperell has arrived in Nelson from Gisborne, to take over the Nelson section of railways, vice Mr. Edwards, who retires on superannuation ou Saturday, 13th February. Mr. Edwards, after a few months spent in travelling, intends to inako his home in Nelson. Captain Stuart Robinson. Adjutant of the 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment, has been promoted to the charge of the Nelson district. Captain Robinson, who has done splendid work in South Canterbury and is a great favourite among the Territorials, will leave for Nelson in A few days. Mr. H. Munro, who has heen in the employ of Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, Eltham, for some time past, and who served in the South. African Forces during the Boer war, has been offered and has accepted, a commission in the Union Forces for service in German South-west Africa. Mr. Mtinxo expects to leave for Swakopmund in about a month. The Key. J. Kennedy Elliott, of Wellington, has been officially notified that the Theological Faculty of Ireland has conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The only other holders of this distinction in tin's country are Dr. Rutherford Waddell, of Dunedin, and Dr. Envin, of Christchurch. We congratulate the Rev. Dr. Kennedy Elliott upon the honour that has been worthily bestowed upon him. The death Occurred yesterday morning of one of Wellington's early settlers, Mrs. M. Wilson. Deceased arrived here with her husband sixty years ago, and lived in Tasman-street for many years. She has left a family of five — two sons and three daughters — namely, Messrs. J. and W. Watson (who live on the original property in Tasman-street) and Mrs. F. Lamberg. Mrs. E. T. Taylor, and Mrs. ,W. Branigan (who live in Kilbirnie). Mr. A. R. Duggan, for over thirty years in the employment of the Bank of Australasia at Wellington, has just died in tho General Hospital. He was one^ of the most familiar figures in city business life, and his fellow-officers in the bank's service here and elsewhere will no doubt greatly miss one so long identified with the institution in New Zealand. He was of a most genial disposition, was expressively described by those who knew him as " a keen sport," was a conscientious worker, and a prominent but unassertive personage at the various little social gatherings of the bank staff. Mr. Duggan is survived by a widow and a family of seven. His eldest son is a school teacher at .Waipawa. Some time ago (writes The Post's London correspondent) I was able to say that Mr. Horace G. Hunt, the wellknown New Zealand organist, who was studying in Germany when war broke out, had been made a war prisoner and ■was in one of the concentration camps. An English lady who has been making enquiries through German friends states I that her friend was able, through the j courtesy of the American Embassy, to liave an interview with Mr, Hunt at the Berlin Police Station, where he was interned from the end of August to October with eleven other Englishmen. He was then well and cheerful and had no grievance to complain of, except the irksomeness of the life. He was getting books, tobacco, and extra- food from outside, but was nob receiving any letters. Later news from him shows that he had received messages from his friends through the same intermediary. He has now been removed to Ruhleben, the fashionable racecourse outside Berlin, where the stables and grandstand have been adapted for the accommodation of thousands of prisoners. My informant states that she does nob think the prisoners suffer any real rough treatment, but they naturally feel keenly the lack of occupation/