PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 9, 11 July 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

, The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) was the guest of the members of the Eeform Party llast night; when he was heartily congratulated upon having completed his tenth year of office.

Mr. G. F. • Vincent, examiner for Trinity College of Music, ; London, arrived at Auckland by the Makura. Detective-Sergeant Andrews is seriously ill in hospital, and his condition to-day was such as to cause his friends grave anxiety. , . ■ •;,■'.

A Dunedin Press Association message announces the' death' of Mr. William Lane, founder of Lane's well-known cordial manufacturing business, at the age of 86' years. ' V

Dr. L. A. Bauer, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, who arrived in Wellington on Monday of last week, and has had an , interesting stay in New Zealand, leaves for San. EVancisco to-day.. . ; ■■'

Sir William Beach Thomas, the war correspondent, who is making a world tour on behalf of The Times and the Daily Mail, is a passenger from Vancouver to Sydney by the Makura. He' intends to return to New Zealand in November, when he hopes to have some trout fishing, and he will then go to Malay and ; India, and right through Africa. : , , . /•' " ■ .'•..:. ■:

Sir Charles: Davsbnf wHo sis retirihg from the positions of Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific, which he has held since -1915,-\arrived inr^Vuckland by theMakura on Saturday. He arrived in Wellington to-day, and will leave by the Rimutaka for England. Lady Davson accompanies him. ' :

The Diocesan Synod yesterday afternoon passed a motion of sympathy with the Rev. A. 0. Williams and his family in the death of Mrs. Williams. Bishop Sprott said that it was due to th« Rev. A. 0. Williams and the Rev. Wilfrid Williams that the Synod should express its sorrow at th« death of Mrs. Williams.

■ Professor A. Chant, professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. R. K. Young, as-! Itronomer in the Dominion astrophysical observatory at Victoria, British Columjbia, arrived at Auckland by the Makura. They will make a short stay in •New Zealand before ; proceeding to ; Australia to conduct observations in connection with the solar eclipse ;in September. Professor Chant 'is accompanied by his wife and daughter.

Mr. Allan Carmont died in the o<!aki Hospital on Monday morning. The deceased1, who was 80 years of age, was born in Dumfries, and came out to New ; Zeajand when ' a boy; He resided in Wellington for some years, and' went tb Otaki in 1863, and saw the ups and downs of pioneer life. He was licensee of the Telegraph Hotels and' subsequently acquired a bakery business in the town; He leaves a grown up family of eightMessrs. Thomas' Carinont (Auckland), Charles (Hamilton), Fred (Foxtbn), Herbert (Otaki), Mrs. 'George ' Bevan (Otaki), Mrs. J. Lorigan (Auckland), Mrs. W. Henderson ' {Auckland), -, and Mrs. M'Lauuhlin (Hastings). Mrs. Speak, who died in the Old Coiintry; was also' a daughter. Mrs. Jessop, of Wellington, is a sister to deceased; while there are 31 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren.