PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Joseph Ward is due back in Wellington from Auckland to-morrow.

The Hon. Dr. M'Nab returned last night from a visit of inspection of the prisons and prison camps in the north.

Police Commissioner Cullen left for the South last night.

Mr. J. C. M. Evison is gazetted head teacher of the Government school at Nine.

Mr. H. G. Turner, postmaster at Dunedin North, is being transferred to Wairoa, Hawkes Bay.

Mr. Lewin, Town Clerk, Dunedin, underwent an operation in a private hospital in that city on Wednedsay.

Mr. A. C. Day, assistant secretary to the Governor, has gone to Rotorua, and will be there lor about a month.

The Christchureh Presbytery met yesterday to consider the calf from Feildin<* to the Rev. T. Miller, of Rangiora. Mr! Miller intimated that he would accent the call. '

Mr. Henry Bedford, late Collector of Customs at New Plymouth, and formerly in the Customs at Chrijftchiirch and Auckland, died a.t New Plymouth yesterday, aged seventy-six.

Mr. A. V. Myers, formerly of the st-af'' of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, who has been appointed secretary of the' Poverty Bay Farmers' Freezing Company, left Wellington for Gisbome by the Victoria last night.

Pte. Bruno Walter, son of Mrs. P E Walter, of Taft-street, Brooklyn, is'believed to have been drowned in the torpedoed Marquette. - He will be remembered as an accomplished pianist, and an active participant in concert work. ■ '

Mr. J. G. Anderson, dux of the Southland Boys' High School, and editor of the Otago University Review, has been nominated as the Otago candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship, 1916. The candidates from the other centres are:-Wel-lington, Mr. Athol Hudson ; Canterbury Mr. Arthur-Ponder; Auckland, Mr. f' A. Airey.

A Press Association message from Wanganui states that the Marquette disaster exacted.heavy toll,from Wanganui, three of the drowned b £ ing well-known local chemists-^C. F. Perrin, James Bird, and Victor Rhodes—all about thirty years of age and unmarried. They were prominent in athletic circles. Perrin's parents reside at Masterton, Bird's at Waimate and Rhodes's at Auckland. '

The Hospital Committee of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday passed resolutions of sympathy in connection with the deaths of Nurse Finnerty, who died at Otaki on Saturday last, and Nurse M. Gorman, one of the unfortunate nurses of the Wellington Hospital staff who was drowned after the troopship Marquette was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

The death of Mr. T. W. Kempthorne, founder of the firm of Kempthorne Grosser, and Co., Dunedin, was very sudden. He had a paralytic seizure as he was attending a meeting of the directors of the National Insurance Co. on Tuesday, and on the following day he was dead. The deceased gentleman was born in Cornwall in 1833, and as a young man came out to Melbourne. He was sent over to Dunedin about 1863 by Messrs. H. and E. Youngman, wholesale druggists, of Melbourne, to manao-e a branch in New Zealand. Mr. Edward ioungman had previously arrived here, and purchased the site in Stafford-street on which Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser Mid Co.'s present factory stands, and, in conjunction with Mr. Isaac, founded the firm. Mr. Kempthorne had been manager . for some years in Melbourne for Messrs. Benson Bros., agents for Messrs. Baiss Bros., of London. Both the Youngmans dioa within the next-year or two, and Mr. Kempthorne was then joined by Mr. French, of Melbourne, the firm being known as Messrs. French, Kempthorne, and Co. About 1868 Mr' French left the firm, and Mr. Kempthorne became associated with Messrs Prosser and Ching. The last-named,' however, did hot remain long in the partnership, and about 1870 'the firm took the title of Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co. In 1879 the business was formed into a limited liability company, and became known as Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Company's New Zealand Drug Company (Limited) —the title which it carries to-day. Mr. Kempthorne was twice married. The funeral took place in Dunedin this morning.