PERSONAL MASTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MASTERS

Mr. P..-S. :K. Macassey, Crown "Soli- ? citor, left for Auckland on Saturday." >. , Mr. C. E. Mackay, Mayor of.Wanga-". nui,. is at present an inmate, of a private „' hospital, suffering from pleurisy. ", A Press Association message from 1 Christchurch announces the thedeatl; of :; Mrs. Julius, wife of the Bishop of Christchurch, .aged 74. ..•■•■ ' • :-." .?.

«r r, • 111)'•'who went to the West Coast in connection with the Grey election.: petition case, returned to Wellington on Saturday night. ■'■ :. :.■ :

Colonel G. W..; S. Patterson,: O.C. Auckland military district, .will leave for Samoa about: the middle' of November 'to;relieve,.the 'Administrator (Colonel B. Logan) : .for'three months.: ■+..■.■ "

, The death occurred at Greytown: yes- ''■>. terday of a well-known, settler, Mr. ,T. T;E. Kemptori, second son of- the late Mr. '■' Thomas Kempton, of Moroa. .Deceased 1 was fifty-nine years bfageV; ■;:'- '■-'■■■. ■ ■■"■'

Colonel N. P. Adams,: Commandant?" of Trentham Camp,, whoihas beeniorti a •• .:visiS. to Nelson.for the benefit of his-; health, has returned, •;feeling" all ',-the> for. the; Teat, arid-change.' • =, i.X ' ■''■ ; Mr. R. F<- Wright has beW transferred \ -fromthe Defence .Office, at-Wellington,'l' and .taken up his new duties '' clerk at the District Headquarters' in ft D'unedin. ;. ■■•■■".'■. -: .;."'■.-.;.•>

Members of the Wellington "branch of' the N.Z.E.1.: passed •-a-;;motion off sympathy with Mr. G. MacMorrin in* his loss by the death of his son, Captain * James MacMorran, at the front.' l ?'

Mr. W..A;. Kennedy,' Wellington' man-^ ager for the Union Steam Ship ■Company,• is to go on his annual holiday nest Wed-; nesday. During his absence, Mr. S.;K.« Sleigh, manager at Christchurch,'will-be? in charge of the Wellington branch ' '«

A Press Association telegram froniS Dunedin reports that Mr. James Rennie/. headmaster of the Albany-street school.^ has been nominated for the vacancy ori the General Council of Education caused^ by the death of, Mr. T. S. Forster. . -W-

The Director of Medical Services ii{' England has been recommended to return*' to New Zealand Drs. Ac'land,' Newton S Guthrie, and, Orchard,, of Christchurch| who have been on active-service for a' considerable time. : . :-V. ; . f

■• The death of two vice-patrons, • Sir Cft J. Johnston, M.L.C., and Major A. S:-f Biss, were referred to in the annual rev port of the. Old.Navals' Rifle Club, ah« at the annual meeting motions express' ing regret.at their loss were passed. -■

.: -The ■ death' of;'': Mr. W. H. Hampton:' formerly president' of the Wellington. Trades.'and Labour Council, was referreo to by' Mr. ;M. J. Mack at on© of hif . political meetings. He described the; ' late Mr.^ Hampton as "one of the sanest Labour men New Zealand has ever, had."; At -Mr..-.-Mack's suggestion the audience stood as a mark of respect to hig memory and of sympathy with Mrs. Hampton. 1 Ther funeral of the late ' Mjl. James J.? Moore; of • Jdhnsonville, who died on' Thursday last, took: place,on Saturday,] and" was" largely :by local resi-! dents and settlers of the district. •■".. The; chief mourners were the two sons of de-i ~ ceased, Messrs. Clifford and Oswald 1 Moore, and his four brothers,. Messrs.! ! E. T., J. O.» W. M., and A. A. Moore.i The Very Rev. Dean Lane officiated- »C the church, and also at the graveside at« Ohariu,' where ,the interment too!:-, place. .The late' Mr. Moore is survived [ by a widow, two sons, and one daughter. Jf..

Tfie : death .took place at Palmeraton? North on Thursday.last of Mr. Edward;'; Thomas Geange, an elder son of the I' late Mr. Richard. Geange, a pioneer v settler of thq : -Hutt Valley. Deceased \. was born, on the! present site ;6f the ;. Wellington Racing", Club's property, at -; Trentham fifty-eight years ago, and : had,}: all .ha, life been engaged in farming- •;■' pursnits, firstly on his birthplace,-, and .■">.. in later years in the Rangitikei district. ; For some tinie Geange had;.-; been living in retirement in Palmerston \ North. About six months back he developed dropsy, a malady to which he succumbed. * He jis survived by a Syidow. and a grown-np family^ .- ' '■■..'