PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey left for Auckland last night. Tho Hon. J. Allen returned from the South yesterday' morning. The Hon. A. L. Herdman arrived at Gisborne last evening overland from Rotorua, via Lake Waikaremoana, and leaves for Wairoa to-day. Mr. R. B. Morris, Chief Postmaster at" Wellington, is on a visit to Christchurch. Mr. James Mackenzie, Undei'-Seore» tary for Lands, returned to Wellington from the North yesterday morning. Colonel Robin (Commandant), accompanied by Captain Hudson (Staff Officer), left foi* New ..Plymouth this morning. Mr. W. T. Wilson, of Palmerston North, has been re-elected president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. Mr. R. Speight, curator of the Can> terbury Museum, came over from Nelson by the Pateena, on Saturday night and went on to Lytfelton by the Maori. Mr. Justice Denniston is to preside at a sitting oi the Supremo Court at Gi'eymouth on Wednesday next. Three criminal cases are, set down for hearing. Mr. Gladstone Ward, third son of Sir Joseph Ward, has decided to go Home and offer the War Office his set 1 ' vices at the front. Mr. Ward will leave for England by thb Ruala'ne on Thursday. Mr. Marcus Simeon, of Melbourne (brother of Mr. F ; P." Simeon, of Welling, ton), is revisiting this city after an absence of forty-nine years, forty-five of which have been spent in Northern Queensland. A memorial tablet to the late Rev. Ai Thomson, who died a year ago, was unveiled yesterday in St. David's Presbyterian Church, Petone, in the presence of a large congregation. An impressive sermon was delivered by the Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott, D.D. Mr. Donald Stewart, manager of the Wellington branch of the Union Bank of Australia, has been granted six months' leave of absence in order that he may visit the Old Country. He will not leave New Zealand uhtil next month. Mr. H. C, Skeet, of the Melbourne branch, has arrived to take over Mr, Stewart's duties. Mr. William Manson (son of Mrs. Isabella Manson, an exODunedin vocalist) has, it is stated in Dunedin, been appointed Professor of" Harmony at tho Royal Academy of Music. Notwithstanding that he is only eighteen yeavs of age, Mr. Manson gained three med&la at the close of the year for harmony, pieces at sight, and singing. News haa been received of the death ih action in Persia of Lieutenant Kenneth Sinclair Thomson. He was the son of Mr. Sinclair Thomson, now braiding at Oeralditie, and was 26 years of age. He ■was educated at Wanganui College, and then went to St. John's College. Cambridge, where lie took his degree ih medicine. On leaving the university he entered the army, and obtained a commission in the Bengal Cavalry. It was only quit© recently that hi* parents te» ceived news that his regiment had been ordered away on active service in Persia, and he had probably only been in the fighting area a few days when he was killed. Mr. Charles James Ward, who died suddenly on the Palmerston North railway station on 'Friday afternoon, was a resident of Takapau, Hawkes B&y Me called for his luggage at the railway counter, asking the clerk to get it quickly as he was in a hurry, but just as the railway official moved away Mr. Ward fell down dead. It appears that deceased arrived at Palmerston North from Takapau on Friday morning with sheep, and was proceeding by the 12.2S p.m. train to Morrinsville (Waikato) He leaves a wife and three children. A few minutes before his death, deceased met his brother-in-laY, Mr. D. W. Dunford, of Kumeroa, who had jttst gone up to Palmerslon North from Wellington. Mr. Alfred Shackel ford, who was we'll known in the softgoods trade in Wellington, died at his residence in Macdonaldcrescent yesterday morning, aged 56. Tho deceased, who was. a. native of Hastings England, was a brother of Mr J. W. Shackelford, of Auckland, and arrived in the latter city from the Old Country twenty-nine years ago. Four years later he came to Wei* lington, and for some time was in business for himself in Manners-street. Afterwards he Wae in tho employ, of Te Aro House Drapery* Company. His death was not unexpected, ns he had been seriously ill for a considerable time. He was a member of the Loyal Britan* nia lx)dge of Oddfellows. He has left a widow and a family of three sons (MVi Leonard Shackelford, of Messrs. J. Rod and Co., Wellington, Mr. Harold Shack elford) of Messrs. Gollin and Co.'s staff. Auckland, and Mr. Leslie Shackolford. with tho D.t.C. in Wellington), and a daughter (Mise Dons Shackelford). TH funeral is to take place to-morrow mom* ing. The interment .will be private.