PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

My. Henry Wry, a Crimean Wav veteran, died at Te Roro on Sunday, aged eighty years. Dr. and Mrs. Pavkes, of Auckland, were passengers by the Maori from the South this morning, Detective-Sergeant Rawle was a pas* senger for Melbourne by the Palooua yesterday on official business. Mr. M. Myers will leave by the Niagara om the 23rd March on a visit to Canada, 'He is due back in New Zealand in June. The Rev. W. G. Maslin has tendered his resignation as a minister of tho Methodist Church, and his resignation haß been accepted. Mr. W. Miller, late district agent of the Department of Agriculture in Otago, has been promoted to the position of hv spector of Offices throughout New Zea* land. His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman, who arrived from Palmerston North on Saturday night, left for Blenheim yesterday to preside afc the sittings of the Supreme Court there. The officers of the Masterton Professional Musicians' Association for the ensuing year are :— President, Miss H&mp* ton 5 vice-presidents, Mrs. R. K. Jackson and Mi\ ' Reihana, Boyes ; hon, see*, retary and treasurer, Mr. A. B. Wat* lace. Mr. F. H. Pickering, of Auckland, and formerly of Wellington, is retiring from the position of general manager of the Sun Insurance Company. Mr. Pickering, who arrived in New Zealand in 1863, has been connected with insurance business in New Zealand for over forty years, and was for some years manager for New Zealand of the Imperial Insurance Company. While in Wellington he was well known in musical circles. English papers record the temporary appointment of Field-Marshal Lord Methuen as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta, in succession to. General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle. Lord Methuen is now in his seventieth year. Since the South African War, in which he commanded the Ist Division of the Ist Army Corps, he has been successively Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Command^ and General Office* Commanding-in-Chief in South Africa. In 1909 he was Governor of Natal. General Sir Leslie Rundle, who had been Governor of Malta since 1909, was o» Ist January appointed to command the sth New Army. The death occurred a.t her residence in Mein>Btreet yesterday of Mrs. Matilda, Bell, relict of Mr. T. J. Bell, baker, who predeceased her by fifteen months. Mrs. Bell, who was 60 years of age, was a native of Wellington, and a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Lemington, engineer, who lived on Lambtoti-quay, where she was born. With the exception of some years spent in Nelson and Wanganui, Mrs. Bell, who was much respected, had lived in Wellington all her life. About a week ago she sUfetained a paralytic stroke and never regained consciousness, but the immediate cause of death was pneumonia. She has left two sons (Mr. Thomas Bell, of the Hufct, and Mr. Charles Bell, who is carrying on his late father's business in Riddifordstreet) and two daughters (Miss Bell and Mrs. Danes). The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon. Mrs. Agnes M'Lean, who died in Wellington yesterday, was one of New Zealand's pioneers, having arrived inLyttelton 58 years ago. She was the relict of the late Mr. John (better known as "Jock") M'Lean, the once well-known contractor, who died at Greymouth some 21 years ago. He it was who constructed the first railway on the West Coast (from Weatport to Sergeant's Hill), put up the first telegraph line from Geymouth to Lyall, put down the first asphalt in Christchurch (early in the 'sixties), and also earned out" the construction of a portion of the Manawatu railway. Her eldest son, Mr J. W. M'Lean, is on the corporation stafi, and she also leaves three manned daughters. The youngest of her family, who was a member of the Fire Brigade, was electrocuted while on duty at a, fire in Manners-street some three years ago

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