PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 98, 28 April 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Marcus F. Marks, the Government Printer, who spent the.Easter holidays _t Hanmer Springe, has returned to Wellington.

Mr. W. C. Kensington, 1.5.0., who, before he retired from ,the Public Service, was Under-Secretary for Lands, has been re-elected Mayor of Marton.

Mr. S. H. Osborne, of Dunedin, has been appointed to adjudicate at the Christchurch competitions, which begin this Week.

Dr.' Faris, District Health Officer for Otago and Southland, is to be transferred to Wellington, and .will leave Dunedin in about a fortnight. ■

Mr. Douglas Pulsford, of Wellington, who has been serving in the New Zealand Motor Boat Patrol, and took part in the Zeebrugge raid, is a passenger by the Makura, due .in Auckland from Vancouver next week.

The condition of Mr. James M'Bean, committee clerk to the Wellington City Council, is causing grave anxiety. Mr. M'Bean became ill on Good Friday, and influenza has now supervenedl on a nervous breakdown. On Saturday he was removed to the Hospital..

Thankfulness is expressed in the annual report of the churchwardens of St. Thomas's of the partial recovery of the Rev. J. R. Hervey, who has been seriously ill. The wardens regret that he has found it necessary to resign his position.

. The secretary of the Wellington Automobile Club reported at the last monthly meeting that the Hon. C. H. Izard; M.L.C., had resigned his office of.president of the club, as, owing to a family bereavement, he had been called to England. It was resolved to accept his resignation with very much regret, and that a letter of thanks be sent to Mr. Izard thanking him for his past services. Dr. Prendergast Knight was elected to fill the vacancy.

Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Mulville, of Wellington, leave for Sydney by the Moeraki to-dfty, to meet \ their son, Major William H. Mulville, who is* coming out to Australia from Ireland after being on active service for some years. He and his brother, 2nd Lieutenant Charles Blood Mulville, of the Royal Engineers, who has been serving in Egypt, both went through the Boer War. When tho last great war broke out the brothers were large railway contractors in the Argentine, and both threw up their business to fight for the Empire.

The death occurred in a private hospital in Wellington on Thursday, from heart trouble, of Mr. Elias Dimnnt, one of the best known and 'most popular of the commercial travellers who pay regular visits to New Zealand from Australia. The late Mr. Dimant was born in Ballarat 62 years ago, and Teceived his education in that town. He was brought up to the soft goods trade, and about 30 years ago joined the"staff of commercial travellers employed by Messrs. Beath, Scheiss, and Company, of Melbourne, remaining in the service of the firm until his death. He had only been ill for two weeks. He leaves a widow and family at Kew, Melbourne, and two brotheA and three sisters in New Zealand, viz., Mr. E. Dimant, manager at Nelson for Messrs. Ross and Glendining, Mr. H. Dimant, of Foxton, Mrs. G. P. Morris, of Picton, and the Misses Dimant, of Wellington, _h» funeral tosk pln«« ye-tovaay,