PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5728, 25 October 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Slider Alary liarbarti, of the M angan<ii Convent’ died on Sunday last, aged twenty-two years. • Tim Rev A. AI. Johnson was last evening inducted n.s Vicar ol St. -Matthew's'Church, Masterton, by Bishop Wadis. Tlio Government Biologist (Air T. AV. Kirk) will give, a lecture at; Levin this evening and at AVanganui on Friday evening. Air J. !!. Box, solicitor, of Melbourne, has been appointed a County Court Judge, in succession to tlio late Judge Gaunt. Air Henry AVocdon has been elected Lord Mayor of .Melbourne. Air AVcedou is a prominent Oddteliow ot the Alancliester Unity Order. Mr AV. H. Bleared, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Wanganui, died at Wanganui suddenly at 7 o’clock on Sunday evening. Death was due to (mfl'oeation, following upon an attack ol erysipelas in the, throat. Aliss I’owdrolT, the champion lady tennis player, has left Patea for Alelbtmnie, where sho will compete in the Victorian championship meeting. In tho combined doubles her partner will bo Air Lycett./with whom she competed in the New Zealand championship. Miss Florence Young, the talented actress ami singer, is returning to Australia hy the Sonoma, due at Auckland from San Francisco on Alonday next. Alter a abort experience in the United States, she is going back to Australia to reinforce Air J. C. Williamson's opera company.

It is officially announced that A'iccAdmiral Sir Arthur Moore, second in command of the Channel fleet, succeeds Vice-Admiral Sir Gerard Noel in comiiuui of the C'liina squadron. ViccAdmiral Hon A. Curzon Howe*, second in command of the China .squadron, succeeds A’icc-Admiral Aloorc. .Messrs John and Alex ForrcsterPatou, members of the firm of J. Baton, Son and Co., yarn-spinners, etc., of Glasgow, who are on a tour of the colonies, have arrived in Wellington after a visit to tho Hot Lakes district. The firm is probably the largest one of its kind in tho United Kingdom, and is represented in Wellington by Air F. G, Poach, manufacturers’ agent. From Wellington the Alessrs Baton go South, to do the Southern lakes and fiords, afterwards proceeding to Australia. Airs Cooper, wife" of Air F. Cooper, an old resident of Wellington, died at her homo at Alicetown (Lowjpr Hntt) on Alonday,, at the ago of sixty-three years. Air Cooper is tho proprietor of tho old-established seedsman's business in Manners street, and daughters of tho deceased have conducted a florists’ business in tho same thoroughfare for some years past. Airs Cooper was tho daughter of tho late Air Robert Holt Carpenter, of Alolesworth street. The funeral is to leave the Government railway station for the Karori cemetery at 2.30 p.m. to-day. At St. John’s Church yesterday afternoon Afiss Ada Franklin, third daughter of Air AV. Franklin (of the Government Printing Office) was married to Air Thomas Walker, of Nelson, Tho ceremony was performed by the Rev James Paterson. The bride, who Was given away by her father, was attended hy Mi«s Minnie Franklin (sister of tho bride), Aliss Al. AValker (sister of the groom), and Aliss AI. Girling, of Blenheim. Air AV. Girling acted as best man, and Alessrs 15. J. Head and H. Prcston as groomsmen. Mr Alaughan Barnett played the Wedding March as tho bridal party left the church. The House of Representatives yesterday morning passed a motion placing on record its high sense of the distinguished services rendered to New Zealand bv the late Hon J. T. Peacock, M.L.C., and of tho serious loss the colony has suffered by his death, and offering sympathy to the deceased gentleman’s family. Mr Seddon said Mr Peacock had homo his part in public duty. Respect must be paid to thoso who in tho early days of representative government had laid the foundation .upon which a structure of a very satisfactory character had been erected. Tho motion was carried, and as a .further mark of, respect tho House adjourned until 2.30 o’clock.

Mr Thomas H. Hamer, private secretary to tho Premier, has been appoint-* ed to succeed Mr Huntley Eliott, as Undor-Sccrctary for Alines, and will take up tho position at the end of the year, when Air Eliott retires on a pension of £4OO a year. Mr Hamer entered the service of the Auckland Provincial Council in 1872, and remained in tho service until tho provinces were abolished, when he entered the service df the Bank .of New*.Zealand. Two years later he came to Wellington, and received an appointment in tho Alines Department. He acted for a time as Under-Secretary for Alines in the Stout-Vogel Government, but on the department being merged in that of Lands, tho duties were taken over by Air Huntley Eliott, and Air Hamer became chief clerk. In 1801 he became private secretary to tho Premier, in which position ho has become so widely known.

At the dinner adjournment of tho House of Representatives last evening, members ot the Opposition met for tho purpose of making a presentation to Air J. W. Thomson, M.H.R. for Clutha, who is retiring from active political life. The esteem in -which Air Thomson is held was amply testified to by the large number of his friends who assembled to do him honour. Air Massey made tho presentation. Ho said that they all considered Air Thomson, tho father of tho .party, and in past years they had profited by his advico and experience. Individually and collectively, they regretted exceedingly his contemplated retirement from public • life, and they felt that after a long, arduous, and honourable career, ho was entitled to a well-earned rest. Air Thomson had been in Parliament for thirty year’s, and had occupied the position both of a private member and a Alinister of tho Grown, and during tho whole of that time his record had been absolutely stainless. Air Alassey then presented to Air Thomson a very handsome silver tea and coffee service, a silver-mounted oak tray, an ebony walking-stick, with ivory handle, and a travelling-rug. In his reply, Air Thomson mentioned that ho was said to have made tho longest speech ever been made in New Zealand. On that occasion ho had spoken for twenty-four hours. (Laughter.) Air Thomson mado some brief references to tho part ho had played in New Zealand politics. In proposing tho health of “his honoured friend,” Sir AVilliam Russell said ho was tho only one present who had had the pleasure of listening to Air Thomson's twenty-four-hours’ speech. Air Thomson was one of those men of whom a hard wore! had scarcely over been said, even by his opponents, and from first to last his career had been an honourable one. (Applause.) Air Thomson’s health was toasted with cheers.

Air E, F. Blundell, of Fcilding, has boon promoted to he manager ol the Hank of New Zealand at New Plymouth. The Fcilding Jockey Clnh, of which Air Blundell has been treasurer for a number of years, made him a presentation on Saturday last. Air Fhenezer Baker, late of this city, to-day celebrates his seventy-fifth hirthdav having been born in the Bay of Inlands ten”veal’s before the signing of tho Treaty of Waitangi, at which ho was present. Air and Airs Baker, who are enjoying good health, are residing at Mount Hiden, Auckland.

Lady Jersey, who lias just arrived in Melbourne from England, received a cable message yesterday announcing tho death of her Father, Lord Leigh. The deceased nobleman, who was eightytwo years of ago, married in 18-18 the Lady Caroline A.meha Grosvenor, daughter of tho second Alarqul.s of AVostminster. Two years after his marriage his Lordship succeeded to the title (which had been created in favour of his father, Chandos Leigh, a minor poet of tho early part of last century), since when ho had been closely identified with tho county of AVanvickshire, of which ho was Lord Lieutenant since 1852. Two yearn ago he also achieved his jubilee as Provincial Grand Alastor of tho Warwickshire Freemasons. Ho came of a good old stock, for Sir Piers Leigh boro the Black Prince’s standard’ at Crccy, and his son, Sir Peter, was slain at Agincourt. Stcneloigh Abbey, tho family scat, stands with its lovely park on the banks of the Avon, between Warwick and Coventry. Lord Leigh was a life-long Liberal. His brother is tho Hon Sir ‘.Edward Chandos Leigh, K.C., counsel to tho Speaker; another tho Dean of Hereford, long known to the AVost End a.s the vicar of St. Alary’s, Bryanston square. There were great festivities af Lord and Lady Leigh’s golden wedding six years ago. Tho deceased had two daughters. One is tho wife of Karl Jersey, tho other of Hie Pcv 11. P. Cholmondcloy, son of Baron Dolarnerc, Canon of Gloucester. Tho title passes to tho Hon Francis Dudley Leigh, ALA., the oldest surviving son.