PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The death is announced of Mr. Charles O. Rawlins, who was member of the House of Representatives for Tuapeka from 1896 to 1899. Mr. Robert Thompson Brand, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Lower Hutt, who has been ill for some time, died at a private hospital on Saturday. The funeral takes place to-morrow. Mr. James T. Pram, who died at Invercargill. recently at the age of 54 years, was formerly Adjutant; of the Otago Hussars, and was for many years engaged in business in Dunedin. Amongst the passengers by the Moana, which left Wellington for San iFrancisco via ports, were Mons. A. C. Chayet, late French ' Consul-General of Australasia; Mr. Russell B. Beals, of Christchurch; Mr. E. Bolger, of Wellington; and Mr. A. B; Donald, of Auckland. ■ . • The Camp Commandant at Featherston announces with regret the death of No. 60153 Private J. M. Ashworth, of the 44th Mounted Rifles, who died at the Featherston Military Camp Hospital on the 12th July. The cause «f death was cerebro-spinal meningitis. Deceased's father is Mr. John Ashworth, of Vinegar Hill, Hunterville. Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., who has been on holiday leave for the past month, will relieve, Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., who lias carried on his Magisterial duties in Wellington during his absence. Mr. Frazer will continue to act as. president of the Public Service Appeal Board, and will later proceed to Christchurch to preside over a sitting of the board there. He then returns to Wellington for the came purpose. ' . . Mr. R. G. Robinson, Superintendent of State Forestry operations for the South Island, is resigning from the Department, after nineteen years' service in the forestry branch (says a Christchurch paper). His decision was, influenced by the higher remuneration 'offered both in Australia and Canterbury for considerably smaller responsibilities. Mr. Robinson has decided to accept the appointment of superintendent of the Selwyn Reserves. Canterbury. I

A pleasant evening was spent last night, when the members of the "Look Who's Here" Company, the English Pierrots, and a number of friends assembled to mark the anniversary of the birthday of Mr. J. L. Cathro, Mr. Edgar Hulland and Mr. Gregory Ivanoff were to the. fore with the musical numbers, and Messrs. S. Mitchell and Dave Miller in suitable words, on behalf of the gathering, presented the guest of the evening with a handsome leather writing case, fittingly inscribed, together with an autographed, drinking glass. Mr. John Mackay, whose death is announced from Liverpool, had reached his one hundredth year. He was born on 18th April, 1819, in Fifeshire. He came to Dunedin in 1874 by the ship Corona, For a number of * years be served in the employ of the Roslyn Tramway Company. He moved to Invercargill about thirty years ago, and remained in Southland nearly all the rest of his life. Most of his time was taken up in constructing engineering plants, for rope works and r so on, for the Southland farmers. He erected the machinery for a clothing factory, and when ninety-four years of age he put up a binder-twine plant at Winton. - Mr. James Wallace, Palmerston North, has just received advice from his only son Norman that he has been gazetted adjutant and acting-captain of a reserve battalion of machine-gun corps at Clipstone Camp, Nottingham, England. Captain Wallace left New Zealand in January, 1915, when he was just over 18 years of age; joining the Imperial' Forces, he was attached, to the Black Watch (R.H.)-as second'lieutenant in April, 1915. He was invalided to England with shell-shock after the Somme offensive in September, 1916, and has been for the past year assistantadjutfant of the 3rd Reserve Battalion, M.G.C., at Clipstone. He is still unfit ( for general service at the' front. | The respect in which Mr. George Stevens, of Porirua. who died suddenly in Wellington on Thursday, was held ■ was shown; by the large numbers of people who attended his funeral in that district yesterday. The service at the graveside was conduced by the Rev. Mr. Rouse. Mr. Stevens was born in Wellington in 1848, at the time, of the great earthquakes, and went to live at Porirua when he was in his teens. About ten years ago he sold the Takapu farm, and since then he had lived in Poriruatownship. He was a trustee of the local Methodist Church and a member of the Porirua Mental Hospital Board. A man of a genial benevolent disposition, he will be much missed in the district in which he had spent the greater part of his life. At the inquest held in Wellington on Saturday a verdict of death from heart trouble was recorded. The late Mr. Ormond C. Cooper was . for two years president of the Masterton A. and P. Association, a steward of the. Masterton Racing Club, and was at the time of the accident which resulted in his death on a visit to Wellington as a delegate to the Racing Conference. He was married to a daughter of tho late Judge ' Broad; The funeral took place this afternoon, the remains being-interred in 'the Karori Cemetery in the presence of a very numerous assemblage of- representatives of the legal ■ profession, racing and other forms of sport, and business men generally. The Rev. G. Y. Woodward officiated at the graveside. Prior to beginning the ordinary business today, the acting-chairman of the First Wellington Military Service Board (Mr. D. M'Laren) said the chairman of the board (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper) was absent under very sad circumstances, his brother having died as the result of an accident. As a mark of respect the members of the „ board and those present at the sitting rose to their feet.

Mr. Robert Caldwell, -who had lived at Karori for a great many years, and. was very highly respected,,died suddenly just after breakfast at his home on View-road yesterday. The deceased gentleman had complained of indigestion now aaid then, but was apparently in good health for some time before his death. He was a native of Nelson, 65 years of age, and spent part of his early life in Queensland. For a number of years he was a draughtsman in the Lands and Survey Department, retiring on superannuation a few months ago, but since then had been temporarily employed by the Department. By his death the Anglican Church at Karori has lost one of its most zealous workers, Mr. Caldwell having been a churchwarden and a member of the vestry of St. Mary's, as well as .a representative of the parish on the Diocesan Synod. For some time he was clerk of the old Karori-Makara Road Board, and when Karori was made a borough he became its first town clerk. Mr. Caldwell has left a widow and a family of nine. Three of his sons, one of whom is a major, are at the front, and another will go into camp 'next week. The deceased's eldest daughter is the ■wifo of Major H. Richardson, D.5.0., M.C., also at the front, and another daughter is Mrs. Ledger, of Nelson. The service at St. Mary's last night was in memory of the late Mr. Caldwell. The Vicar (Rev. G. Y. Woodward) referred to tho deceased as a splendid churchman, and a man whose many good qualities had endeared jhun to all who knew him. Mr. Woodward also alluded to the family's fine war record. At the conclusion of the service, the. organist (Mr. S. B. Shortt) played tho Dond March in Saul.