PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 14 July 1914, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor will preside at the opening of tho Municipal Conference at 10 a.m. to-day, and will take lunch with ibe delegates at 1 p.m. To-morrow tho Earl and Countess of Liverpool will 'attend tho races ■ at Treutiiain, and on Thursday night will be present at the Race Club ball. On Friday afternoon Their Excellencies will attend a reception to be given by Mrs H. D. Bell in the. Town Hall. On Saturday they will attend the races at Trout ham, and that evening His Excellency will bo the guest of the president of the W.R.C. at dinner in the Wellington Club.

Mr Harold Jones, manager of Messrs JT. AI. Alenuie, Ltd., of Auckland, ..is on a visit to Wellington.

Mr T. B. Williams, Mayor of Wanganui, is at present- in Wellington, and is staying at the Occidental Hotel. Tho Diocesan Synod yesterday appointed .Mr F. J. Carter treasurer, or the Pension Fund. -a

Air J. Scanlon, for some years gaoler at Wellington', who has been transferred to Lyttelton,- left by tho AVahine last evening.

The Chief Secretary of the Salvation Army (Lieutenant-Colonel Powlcy) conducted a series of successful meetings at Hastings on Sunday. Sir Joseph AVard, loader of the Liberal party, who went south on. Saturday night, is expected to return from' Lyttelton by this morning’s terry steamer.

Mr J. R. Norris, of, Christchurch, secretary of the New Zealand Trotting Conference, is at present. in Wellington, and is staying at the . , .Epjpiva Hotel. ~

The Education Board has confirmed the following apointments:—Mr, A. T. White, headmaster at Hostwell; Mr R. A. Howie, assistant at Island Bay; Miss Mowe, in charge of aided school at Maiigapakeha.

Staying at tlio Hotel Windsor nroi Messrs H. L. Friend (Auckland), L. G. Godfrey (Wanganui), W. H. Johnston (Auckland), \V. H. Hardy (Carterton), G. Lane (Dunedin), Goss (New, Plymouth), Crabb (Palmerston North). An ong the visitors to ' Wciimfitqn staying at the Empire Hotel ai o Messrs Williivni • J scobs (beildihg)* x). li. Roberts (Greymoutb), A. MbDonald (Mostcrtoa), H. MoLareu (Masterton), Oeorgo Mollroy (Palmerston North), W. A. Price (Palmerston North), and T. Turner (Eketalmna),,

Mr J. W. Heennn has announced hi* intention of standing for the extraordinary vacancy on the Eiastbourna Borough Council caused by the resignation of Councillor H. F. Marsden, who, leaves for Christchurch shortly to tako up the secretaryship of the WestportStocktou Coal Company.

A report is current ! that Mr* O’Keefe, of Mangaweka, has inherited a fortune from an uncle in America, named O’Sullivan. The amount the latter left for division among five, families is stated to be in tluv vicinity of twenty million dollars.* Owe "daughters of Mrs O’Keefe are residents of Marten.

During their stay in ‘Wellington the followin'* are at the Grand Hotel Messrs Allison (Auckland), WJntemdn (Wanganui), J. Dalton (Auckland), I?. Besley (Patea)i M. Luke W ilsoii (Hastings), Arthur Oliver (Palmerston North), 1 Warnock (Auckland), 11. W. Wilson (Auckland), Jeffrey Elkmgtou (Wairarapa). Mr , Charles Bailey,' senior, the designer and builder of some of the known yachts in New_ Zealand, is at present'on a visit to Wellington. Ono of the earliest yachts built by. Mr Bariev was “The Pet,” for many year? the champion of Wellington, at which time she was owned by Mr Charles Hill. In these days “Hie. Pet...,os employed as a fishing smack at larcmata.

Opportunity was taken, at the meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council last evening to present a live-years service medal to Fireman A. H. bmitb, also a two-years’ service.bar, to ilireman 8. Struck, who already, has a Arcyears’ service medal. ln Vi® presentations, the Mayor (Mr'H. Baldwin) said it gave bun much pleasure to perform these duties, which werd a mark of recognition of the noble work done by the firemen, who could never be adequately recompensed. News has been received in Wellington of the death Of Mr George Trasor Brodic, formerly a resident of Wellington, 'at the age of thirty-five. -At one time he was a member of the literary staff of the “Aew Zealand Times ” and later of the “Evening Post.’* He was prominently connected with Association football , matters and for a while was a member of the, Wellington Football Association s management, committee. On leaving TVellington, he became sub-editor of the “Taranaki Herald,”' but, dl-)ieal£h caused him to give up ;ihat pq?ltl9)iThe deceased was a -son or Mr Alexander Brodie, at one time prominent at the Thames. , , ' At the Anglican Synod yesterday feeling reference was. made to . the death of Captain J. D. R- Hewitt, <Ute of Palmerston North, and, on the motion of the Vcn. Archdeacon bancourt, the following resolution • was passed " That this Synod desires to express its sense of the great loss it has sustained, in, the death of one <>f its oldest members, James Dudley Ryder Hewitt, Captain in. the .Loyal Navy; and to place on record its thankfulness to 'Almighty God for the example of a life of faith and righteousness set before us by his faithful servant, called to rest a .few, days after he withdrew from the Synod last year.” • The death occurred at Auckland Bn Friday of Mrs McLean, widow of tho late John McLean. Mrs McLean, nho had survived her husband; by four years, was in her eighty-ninth year. She arrived in New Zealand from Capo Breton in the barque Ellen Levi is in 1860, and the family, till the outbreak of the Maori Wars, were ona farm in Papakura Talley. Iho disturbed state of the country rendering necessary to move to town, Mr McLean started as a contractor, and was the founder of tho firm of John McLean, and Sons, which, in later years came to be widely known throughout the Dominion. Sirs McLean 'eave-t two sons, Messrs Murdoch and Neil MoLean ; and two daughters. Appointments may now. bo booked to avoid disappointment for the new styles of hairdressing for the race ball and other social events next week at Mrs Rolleston’s, Lambton quay. Rooms opened until 8 p.m. on Th'umday, Friday, and Saturday evenings.