PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 9, 31 August 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr. I’. tilth. Kearney, chief clerk at the Onehunga railway station, has beeu promoted to the relieving staff under the Department, and left for Pokeno on Monday week. Mies Edith Pinches, the winner of the gold medal for soprano test singing at Napier, coniee of a musical family. Hep mother in the early days of Wanganui was considered one of the finest sopranos in the Colony-. Her father is also a vocalist, ami was until lately ona of the lluia Quartet, of Wanganui. Mr. Pinches is now practising his profession of architect. The Rev. Father O'Meara, who died in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital on Monday week, was the parish priest at Feilding, and had come to Auckland for the benefit of his health. He was for a time attaG 1 t othe Sacred Heart Basilica, Hill.-treet, Wellington, and had also been stationed at Hawera and Masterton. He received his education at Ennis and Carlow Colleges, and arrived in New Zealand twenty two years ago, being about fifty years of age at the time of his death. Lord Ranfurly, acting on the suggestion of Captain Goodwyn Archer, has in vited Captain R. Scott, the Antarctic ex-

plorer. to kindly revisit the Veterans’ Home ea his way to Lyttelton. Captain Scott has replied that he hopes to be able to include the visit in his programme for New Zealand, and to reawaken the memories of the veterans with whom he met in 1904. At: old and respected citizen of Auckland. Mr. <l. Murray, died last week, at the reside))*of his"son, Mr. F. Murray, Manukau road. The deceased gentleman «... 73 wars of age. and was for many years a school-teacher in the Waikato and other districts. He leaves a widow and two sons. Mr. F. S. Murray and Mr. G. I’. Mui ray. dentist, of Symonds-street. He had been suffering for some time, and just recently underwent an operation for internal troubh ». Dr. 3. K. Jamieson (a brother of Dr. J. ]>. > Jamieson, of E-ket.ihuna. and of Mr. \\ . J. Jamieson, of Wellington) has b*‘< .i appointed professor of anatomy at th) liniversi-.v. Leeils. He has. since he began studying medicine at Edinburgh, been an anatomical student of a high order, and his original work during the last three years on the lymphatic system, which' has attracted notice in the Old Country. America, and Germany, led to his appointment. Dr. Jamieson's father. Mr. Robert Jamieson, of Cruisdal, Sand-

nr<-. Shetlan.L will be remembered by nianv <»1 I colonist* in this Dominion as tin- man who. acting as free emigration am-nt for the New Zea’an 1 Government, sent them out. ami every one of them, it is stated, has done well since. Another old co’on!=t. who bore ms eharr of the arduous work of the nipnr-. in the person of Mr. William Tok, died la*t week at hie residence, Nelsonstafter a protracted illness. He was born in Co. Cavan. Ireland, and arrived in New Zealand in 1850. As a surveyor he aa* atta. hed to the Engineer Corps of the Imperial Force, and saw through the Paranaki war to its close. He subsequently en.ere-1 the service of the Government, ami in every portion of C;< \m kland provincial district he was engaged on li bl .-uryey work. To the Maor‘- he aa- mu h attached, and was widely known amongst them. Twenty yvar> ag.» he .v.i- transferred, from field ’Operation* to the oilice of the Lands anl Survey Department in this city as a dratightm’.an. I'ao years ago he re-

tire I upon a wt 11-earned and deserved pen-ion. He wa- a verv widely-read man ami of st id - ’ He leaves a widow, a daughter (Mrs. Toner, of Na- ; , and a st n Mr. W. Marton, survivor. Gisborne), a brother (the Hon. J A. Die), ami a dster (Miss Tole) to mourn their loss. Mr. S. Deans, of the South British Insurance Company, wa* a passenger for (;i>b< rnv on Saturday on relieving duty. Mr. F. Baker, who has been transf< rred to the Gisborne branch of the firm of Me>-rs. Mackay. Logan. Caldwell, and Co. from headquarters, was last week pre-.-nted by the local staff with a gold albt rt. Mr. C. A. Brown, manager, making the pre-entation.

G. C. Hamilton, senior A.D.C. t< Lord 1.-ling: on. who arrived at Wellington fr<m Lomloii on Thursday’ by ihi Turakina. i- a -on of Lord Claude Hamilton, and nephew of the Duke of Abei corn. He was adjutant in the Gr< . id i r Guard-. Tin- funeral of Tailo r () Meara took pki. . in Feilding on Thursday, and was one of the longe-t corteges ever seen there. I*l ior to leaving St. Bridget’s < lunch, liequit m Ma-** was held at 10.30 a.in., when there was a large congregation of mourners. Included among those pre-ent were the Vn ar-General, Monsign *r O’Shea. Mon-ignor Devoy, Fathers K‘*gnault. McKenna, Bowden, Power, Co-tello, J.e Croix, O’Dwyer, Hurley, Peebles, Lane. Murray, and others. The visiting clergy went to Feilding from all ue of the North Island.