PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 71, 22 September 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Alfred Hill, the well-known composer and organist, was a passenger from Sydney to Wellington by the Moeraki yesterday. Mr. D. E. Kennedy, secretary of the Furniture Workers' Federation, will leave for Blenheim on Wednesday, to attend a sitting of the Arbitration Court there. , /• Mr. Barry Keesing, who was chairman of. the Citizens' Entertainment Committee during the visit of H.M.S. New Zealand to Wellington, has been ■presented by the officers of the ship with an enlarged photograph of the vessel, signed by the officers, as a mark of appreciation of the energy and ability displayed by him and his committee in the entertainment of the officers and men during their stay in the city. The Rev. J. M. Steward was consecrated Bishop of Melanesia at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral yesterday morning. The consecration service was conducted by Bishop Sprott (Wellington), assisted by Bishop Julius, (Christchurch) and Bishop Averill (Auckland). A social gathering to bid Godspeed to the new Bishop and his staff on their departure for Melanesia will be held in the Masonic Hall this evening, when the New Zealand Board of Missions will be inaugurated. The Bishop of Wellington will preside and the Bishop of Nelson will speak. • ■ Mr. James Stspleton, an old and highly respected citizen of the West Coast, died at Hokitika the other day at the age of seventy-nine years. Deceased in his younger days followed the sea, and was a master mariner. He was mate on his brother's ship out to New Zealand, and later he brought up the ship John Bullock to Hokitika. Afterwards he was master of the Flying Scud and Isabella, the latter being a tender which served the ships lying outside and which came direct from Melbourne in those days. Latterly he was living a retired life. He leaves a widow, five sons, and three daughters. '