PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

".The Hon. Arthur MyereTeturned from Auckland this afternoon. • X „. >• -•Mr! H. Sydney, Dominion Secretary for the Protestant Political Association,' returned from Taranaki last evening. „'Miss Thacker, sister of Dr. .Thacker, M.P., is at present seriously undisposed at. Hanmer. Dr. Thacker left for the South last evening to--visit heY. T,".",.l 'Mr. W. G. Siddell,'S.Mi,'wßo'has been at Rotorua recuperating from his recent indisposition, resumed his magisterial duties to-day. ■ ' Mr." C- M. Luke has received cabled advice that his son, Lieut.- Kenneth E. Luke, who has been at the,. front, has been admitted.to hospital. I Principal Warder. .Leggett, who has !. been in charge of Ithe Mount Cook Gaol for two and a-half years', has been" transferred to the prison at Invercargill. Mr. W. H. Hagger, Conciliation Commissioner, left to-day for Napier, where he will preside at a sitting of the Conciliation Council to deal with the painters' dispnt*. .. .;.. .„ .-., ' Mr. John Walter Williams,', 'late of Wellington, died at Devonport on Saturday.. His father,- the late Mr. H. W. Williams, was formerly in the Customs Department'at Wellington. ■ ' ■ -The death has* taken" place'of one 1 of Napier's early residents,- Mr. Daniel Cotton, who has followed the occupation of c&p proprietor, for .the past fifty years. . . . . „ . ..,..- .'A cable message has been received in. Wellington stating 1: that L.^GpL- R. R. Kells,- of Kilbirnie,- who- has been eeribusly ill, is improving in health, and has been removed to the convalescent home at Hornchurch. ■ '■ Major A. R.. Hislop has received advice that his son, A. R. Hislop, jun., who has been training 'with* the Royal-Horse Artillery in England, has obtained his com-" mission as lieutenant, and has been gazetted to the Brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery at Salisbury. . , ■ ! The members of. D Battery Reserve last evening made 3> presentation -to Gunner J. T. Kent, of Reikiorangi, on the occasion of his retirement from the field section of the R.N.Z.A. Captain Goldie, In making the presentation, wished Gunner Kent success in his farm work. . ■. V ' Mr.' Algernon H. L'indo," Examiner to' the Associated Board of.the Royal, Aca-,. demy and Royal College of Music;' London, ha£ arrived in Auckland to conductthe annual examinations "on behalf of the' bpard. He will reach Wellington about 24th October, two-weeks later -than ■ usual;fing to unavoidable delays, "in" Sydney." examinations in' Wellington will take out three weeke; 347 candidates having entered. , .... .■ '.

Mrs. Catherine'"Morgan,' who died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. H. Ro"d;~"iir~Wellington last ■ week, arrived here from Sydney with her parents in Bt. MIS Havanna, Captain Erskine, in 1848. The frigate:JjrbtfghT"acfoSs:f6i j:j;he: Maori War~the 65th Regiment-("The Royal-Tigers"), to which her father, the late.-Mr, Michael^Gfreen,-T)elbngea'l Her. Jriotli'erilMra. .'(Ann? Eotiter.Cdie'a,; ab&ut two^yeare.ago, -at- the'age-of-9,6, leaving' -over 215-descendants.- ' ■>•,..■-« '

il The death occurred at her residence jih Wellington-terrace this morning of Mrs. Campbell, wife of.; Col.. G. F. C. Campbell," -Secretary -of- the* Treasury, after a shorf illness^ -This deceased lady, :whb was much respected, wae a daugh"tex oi Mr. Pike, of Dunedin. She leaves .* sob, lieut. Alan Campbell, now in Palestine, who," with CoL Campbell, will h"av.e much sympathy iri r their bereSv'e-". .inent. .'..7,1.".^'-. Z.Z,"." .;; Mr. Wm. Job Smith died at his residence in Masterton on Saturday, after ,3 short iQneas. The deceased, who was ,67 yea-rs of age7'K£d "been a resident 1,,0f,. 'the district for,thirty-years, andjarrived 1 in Now Zealand 33 yearsago." Although ;he made Masterton his home, he had for the past nineteen years been an employee' i'6f tne Petone "Workshops. He leaves a ;' family of two sons (one in ■ France) arid 'six daughters, two of whom, are married' '•(Mrs. Elder and Mrs. Carswell, of Mas"terton), to mourn their loss. ■ Mr. Lowis Moritzson, who died at JAuckland last'week in his sixty-third ;year, was.well known in Dunedin before ;taking up .his residence in the North 'two years ago. The'laio Mr. Moritzson 'was a! native of ' Denmark; : and ..spent* aome years in the United States, where he btcame naturalised. The deceased, who was married, in Christch'urch; was in business for some years with an elder brother under the name, of Moritzson and Co. He "had two daughters and a son, thi latter being Lieut. Moritzson, who left with the Main Body, and ja still on active, service, having been mentioned in despatches and awarded. jthe Military Cross. ' "■!■'■' "■'"-' ■•; Mr. H. 6. Absolum, of the Department of Agriculture for the Hawkes Bay was met recently by his fellow workers, pricy: to his departure for Wel- ..; lington, where he has been transferred.' Mr. Keenan, in presenting him 1 with a gold chain,, spoke of the splendid sei> jVices of Mr. Absolum, and of the respect jn which hes. wa« held throughout the Ther Department''Was losing a thoroughly competent officer, and hia 'departure was ~a decided'loss' to the" town.- Mr. Absolum heartily thanked the officers for. their handsome present, which would alwaye remind him of i pleasant associations in Napier, which place he regretted leaving. ■ V-■ ■""'

■ The Rev; H. G.. Rosher, of Stoke-on-Trent (formerly vicar of All Saints'- ; Church, Palmerston North), has been appointed vicar of Tamworth (England), m ■succession to the late Rev. the Hon; M/ 3. Peel,' who*, was killed in France while acting as atmy chaplain. Mr. Rosher •i returned to England in July, 1915, and at once volunteered as a chaplain to the Forces. He sailed for the. East in, the ■following month, and afterwards went to ■ France. Since the expiration of his.term ; ,with the Forces, he has been assisting • the Rev. Probendary Stuart at Stoke-on-Trent, his duty including the. charge of a district church and the North Stafford; shire Infirmary, where there are a large number of wounded soldiers. ;"'\ On Bth July, George Herbert St. Hill (Collis), lieutenant-colonel, Hussars, was skilled in action while attached to the Notts and Derby Regt. The second, son j of the late Rev. Canon St. Hill, of Napier, N.Z., Colonel St. Hill lias seen long service in.lthe Yeomanry, in, which .he had his-majority in 1909. f In-Febru-ary last he was appointed'to the command of a battalion of the Sherwood Foresters. Among his previous.war services were:/ Operations in Matabeleland (1893), medal; operations in South Africa (1896), clasp; Central Africa Expedition (1898), medal with clasp; and the South 'African War, when he served with the Imperial Yeomanry, and was decorated with the Queen's medal with three, ;.clasps. In 1889, Col. St. Hill married -Rosie Annabel, a sister of Sir Spencer Marybn Maryon-Wilson.

Work on the -waterfront is very slack in Wellington' just at.present,'even more -, so than is usual »t this time of the year, i • owing to the hokl-up of the coastal ahip- > ping. Last week-obout../70-, wharf,.lab.-, ourers made.application for wprk'at'tiie;^Government Labour Bureaui- The De-' apartment had vacancies for about 10Q, : .men at Napier'arid Eeathereion,- but. the; " jnon ■ preferred not'to leayo^the-town. Messrs. E.- Johnston and <3'o. will sell •"furniture, piano, etc., at No.' 121, "Abo!' j Smith-street, on Thursday, at 1.15 p.m.