PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 137, 8 December 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Bassett and Lady Edwards returned to Wellington by the mail train from Wanganui on Saturday.

Sir Joseph Ward, Leader of , the Liberal Party, arrived in . Wellinjgton from the South yesterday morning, and left to-day for the Wairarapa. ■ He will speak at Martinborough this evening.

Mr. H. Braddell, for some years editor of the Nelson Colonist, has been appointed sub-editor of the Southland Times, Invercargill.

Mr. Harold Beck, the young .'cellist, arrived on Saturday evening, haying-just concluded his New Zealand tour with Jlr. Harry Dearth.

Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, is returning to New Zealand, via Sydney, in the Orient liner Ormonde, due at Sydney in Christmas week.

Mr. C. H. Hughes, manager for the past three years of the Union Steam Ship Company at Melbourne, has been appointed manager at Sydney. Mr. Val. Johnson, at present manager at Sydney, will transfer as manager to Melbourne.

Mr. Edward' Burrell, of Otaki, while driving his motor-car at Pahiatua on Saturday, collided with another car. As a result, he received injuries to his head, and he was removed to the hospital. His condition is by no means serious.

The Rev. Father Campbell, S.M., of the Kilbirnie and Seatoun parish, has been transferred to Christchurch, and has been succeeded by the Rev. Father Connolly. Father Campbell was,recently presented by the parishioners with a suit case and a purse of sovereigns.

The Rev. Father A. Cullen, of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, is leaving for Papanui to take up duties at the new Catholic College which is being established. He was farewelled by the parishioners of Eastbourne yesterday after Mass.

Lieut.-Colonel F. J. Courtney, for many years in command of the Wellington Garrison Artillery Division, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces officer's decoration. Colonel Courtney is at present in England, and in his absence Major D. R. Mees has had command of the Garrison Artillery Division.,

Mr. G. Shirtcliffe, of Wellington, who left this city last February for the United States, spent two and a-half months in that country, and then went to -England. He left there on 14th November last, and arrived in New York on 21st. He is now on his way to the Pacific Coast. From San Francisco Mr. Shirtcliffe (accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Shirtcliffe) will proceed to Japan and Chine, returning to New Zealand via Australia, about May next.

Mr. H. B. Gray, who has severed his connection with the Wellington Moat Export Co., Ltd., to take up the position of General Manager of the Taranaki Farmers' Meat Co.. Ltd., was yesterday afternoon presented by the staff of the Meat Export Co. with a silver rose bowl and case of pipes as a small token of tho esteem in which lie was held by tho staff. Mr. Sladden, in making the presentation, expressed the regret of himself and the staff at losing Mr. Gray, at the same time congratulating him on his promotion, and wishing him every success and happiness in his new sphere. Congratulatory messages were read from the buyers and membera of the Kakariki staff, who were unable to be present. Mr. Gray suitably responded. The gathering concluded with cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Gray.

Mr. H. M. C. Robertson, previously Accountant in the Public Health Department, ha 6 been gazetted an Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, with the title "Inspecting Accountant." Mr. Robertson's functions will be to deal more especially with the office side of boards' administration, and to give all necessary advice and assistance to board secretaries. He will then be able to ensure that the returns and statistics are furnished in more uniform manner than heretofore, so that the published figures may be of greater value for comparative purposes, and an index ,to economies secured or required. The efficient methods employed by one board can be illustrated to another, and by closer personal touch and explanation many difficulties of administration and misunderstandings on financial matters may be smoothed away. Mr. Robertson is at present fully occupied with the Department's own offices and institutions, but will shortly be able to commence his visits to boards.

Mrs. Barclay, wife of Captain W. M. de R. Barclay, who died last week, was the only daughter of the late Mr. Francis C. Leslie, of Ballywards, Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland, and her death severed a married life which had continued for 56 years. In 1865 she went to India and Burmali, and arrived in New Zealand in 1881. Since 1886 the late Mrs. Barclay had lived with her husband and family in Wellington, among a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, who knew her as a woman of exceptional talents. . A fine linguist, a woman of. wide and intelligent culture, possessing a remarkable memory— qualities which could not fail to attract—she nevertheless devoted all her spare time to the service of others, and shunned publicity to the end. She leaves a family consisting of Mrs. Wood (wife of Colonel Wood), living in England ; Mrs. Armstrong, of Gisborne; Miss Barclay, of Wellington; Mr. F. A. Barclay, district manager of the A.M.P. Society at Invercargill; and Mr. A. de R. Barclay, editor of th» Sunday. Times, Sydney.

"The better the day the better the deed" is a proverb which lends itself to considerable debate, and at any rate "Sunday drunks" and Sunday thefts, especially from a church, are not passed over lightly at the Magistrate's Court. Yesterday a middle-aged man, named John Stewart, was seen staggering along Buckle-street fortified ■ against the weather by an overcoat which he carried over his arm, as well as by his particular choice of preventatives against coughs, colds, influenza, or chills. The overcoat attracted little attention, but the effect of the more potent safeguard did, and he was promptly arrested and taken to the police station. 'Ju6t as he reached the watch-house another person entered, and looked him over, and finally fixed his interest on the overcoat. "That is my coat. You stole it from the Bucklestreet Roman Catholic Church," he said, with obvious relief, and John Stewart could not but agree. Mr. E. Page, S.M., who presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day, fined the man 10s for drunkenness, and ordered him to pay a fine of £10 or to go to gaol for 14 days on the charge of theft.

Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. will sell furniture to-morrow, at 10.15 a.m., at No. 212 Happy Valley-road, Brooklyn; at 11 ani on the premises, Plimmerton; on Wednesday, at 11 a.m., in their rooms.

Members of Court Bowen, A.0.F., are notified elsewhere of nomination of officers this evening.

Entries for the Wellington Provincial Tennis Association's Championship and Handicap Tournament, to bo played at Weltingl*"l College from the 30th December, to the 3rd January, close at 5 p.m. on Monday, 15th December, with tho secretary, D. C. Armstrong, Box 473, Wellington. '

Mcssre. Vine and Wilson will sell furniture, pianos, books, etc., in their rooms, Dominion-avenue, at 2 p.m. to T inorrow.

Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co., Lamb-ton-quay, notify that no further sales will take place in their rooms thi-5 week, V.M.C.A, seod* will be on view from Wednesday awct.