PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 14634, 2 August 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Sir George and Miss Reid are now well enough to return to London. Mr Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, is recovering from his recent illness. Captain Oswald Watt has secured an aviator's certificate. Dr Gregory, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral (London), is ill. The Dean is 92 years of age. Mr E. A. Abbey, R.A., is dead; aged 59 years. It was reported that Mr Frank T. Sullen had been awarded a baronetcy when the Coronation honors were distributed, but it appears that the name of the author of ' The Cruise of the Cachelot' was misread by our Ceylon contemporary, from which we extracted the announcement, for that of the eminent cancer specialist and president of the Roval College of Surgeons, Dt Butlin. . The Hon. T. Mackenzie is to receive deputations to-morrow, and leave on Friday morning for Wellington. Bro. J.' S. Alexander, who died on Monday night, was for over 55 years Grand Treasurer of the Independent Order of Oddfellows for New Zealand. He had attended every session of the Grand Lodge during that time in ail parts of the Dominion, and in May last, with tM'o others, represented New Zealand at the Grand Lodge of Australasia, at Melbourne. Singularly enough, Mr Alexander is the second delegate to that conference who has since died, the other being M.r W. Robertson, of Hobart. The Grand Secretary of the 1.0.0. F. for New Zealand (Bfo. Wm. Reid) is a ■ son-in-law of the deceased, and Mrs Leckie, sen., of Invercargill, is a sister., The funeral in tho Northern Cemetery to-morrow will be attended by representatives of most of the city lodges." A Grevmouth telegram states that Mr Martin. Shannahan, one of the oldest contractors on the Coast, died to-day, aged 76, after a four-months' illness. He leaves four sons and two daughters. The Rev. C. F. Askew, at present in charge of the large parish of Ingrew, in Yorkshire, England, has been appointed vicar of St. .Mark's Church, Wellington, in succession to the Rev. A. M. Johnson. The Rev. Mr Askew was reeommertded to the parochial nominators by Dr Wallis, the ex-Bishop of Wellington. In his present charge he has working under him three curates, one of whom will accompany him to Wellington. He will leave for New Zealand at the end of October.

The ' Ho.bart Mercury ' records the death on July 20 of Vr James Robert Meech. chief inspector of lighthouses. Deceased was bom in New Zealand in 1843, and when quite a boy his parents were alarmed to find one morning that he had bean stolen by the Maoris, but he was afterwards returned. Shortly after this incident Mr Meech went to Tasmania with his parents.