PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3058, 1 December 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs R. Green and family, of Masterton, will leave Wellington on the 23rd instant, by the s.s. Devon, en route for England. Prior to his departure for Masterton Mr G. Falla, late stationmaster at Hawera, was presented with a silver and oak inkstand from the railway staff. Advice was received by cable last week that Dr A. J. Crawford, of Wanganui, brother of Mrs C. A. Cameron of Masterton, has obtained the degree of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. The Dunedin "Evening Star" is responsible for the announcement that the Hon. W. P. Reeves has accepted the position of financial adviser to the New Zealand Government at a salary of £4OO per annum. Mr O. E. Stout, son nf Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice o c New Zealand, has arrived in London, and will shortly proceed to Cambridge University to go into residence there. Sir Robert Stout now has four sons studying in the Old Country, two of them being medical students at Guy's Hospital. The Hon. W. Hall-Jon»s is to be entertained at luncheon at the concert chamber, Town Hall, Wellington, this afternoon and in the evening at a "social" at the Town Hall. His term of office as High Commissioner commences to-day, and he will leave for London by the Corinthic en Thursday. Rumour is busy with the names of possible Conciliation Commissioners under the new Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acl. The consensus of opinion seems to be that Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., will be appointed for the North Island, and Mr J. R. Triggs, ex-chairman of the Canterbury Conciliation Board, for the South Island. The appointments must be made during this month, as the Act comes into operaticn on January Ist. The death is announced from Gort ; Convent, County Galway, of Mother ! Mary Aloysius Doyle, the last of the j sixteen nuns of the Order of Mercy, 1 who left Iraland in December,. 1554, \to assist Florence Nightingale in ! rursing the soldiers in the Crimea. She was 94 years of age. She was summoned to Windsor several years ■ ago by the late Que:n Victoria to be decorated, but was too old to undertake the journey. Her sister, aged 90, a nun in the same Convent, still survives. Mr Geo. Humphries, a well-known Wellington journalist, died at his residence, Coromandei street, yes. terday morning, at the age of 49 years. Deceased was a native of Wellington, and his connection with journalism dates back to 1878, when he joined the staff of the "New Zealander," The following year he was appointed to a position on the newly-formed Press Association, with which he has been associated ever since. Mr Humphries was wellknown for many years as an enthusiast in all kinds of sport, and until recently represented the Press Association at the New Zealand Rifle Association meetings in various parts of the Dominion. He was one of the best known and most popular journalists in New Zealand, and his death, which was due to a severe attack of di-opsy, will be deeply regretted by very many friends both inside and outside the profession. The late Mr Humphries leaves a widow and three young; children.