PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2290, 26 October 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

.. VIOE-EBOAII. Owing to the death of Lady Liveripool'a brother, Captain the Hon. 'Charles >Monck, at' the front, Their Excellencies were unable to he present it the performance of "Bunty Pulls jfche Strings" on Saturday evening. . A private cable messago (according to a Press Association' telegram from 'Auckland) states that. Major Nelson •Frederick George has. died in London. • .One of the keenest of trout-fishers fend the most loyal of the'sportsman to New. Zealand is Mr. Charles Stoddart, Liverpool; who .has'.-.made many' '.visits to" this'country 'during the past . .twenty. years. ' Messrs. Thos. CSook •and Son has been advised ,that Mr. Stoddart is 'leaving London by . the Demosthenes, and may be expected in New Zealand early in December. . Mr. 0. Tresehmann, of Castle Eden, England,. and a. member of the British Association's party which recently • visited Australia, ■is at present, in the South Island. He will return shortly to Wellington. , • • The folio ving visitors to Wellington' were recent callers at the Tourist Department's Bureau:—Dr. and Mrs. J. It.. Boyd, Scotland; Win. Stanton, Detroit, U.S.A.: Geo. Girvin, Seattle; W. J. Solomon. Sydney; Captain and Mrs. G. A. Taylor,- Sydney ; Mr. and Mrs. Frank 0. Gates, Amerley, Brisbane; 0. Tresehmann, Castle Eden; England; Mr. and Mrs. E. L./Piesse, Hobart; Harry S. Wood, Geelong; James Marion, Sydney,} H. H. Newton, London. The death occurred oh Saturday Inorning of Mr. A. Beaver, head of thefirm of A. Beaver and Co., wholesale jewellers, of Lambton Quay, and muoh •respected in business circles in Wellington. The late Mr. Beaver,' who was 70 years of age, was the son of , the late Dr. B. Beaver/ formerly of •Dunedin,, who arrived in the South • with his wife and family in 1860. The 'deceased became a jeweller, and some twenty years ago set up in business in Wellington. Mr. Beaver; who was a member of the Synagogue, was a brother of Mrs. Newmans, of Webb Street, and an Uncle of the late Mrs. Manoy. j ■ (nee Miss May Newman) of Wellingijton and' Motueka. - • Staff-Sergeant-Major Talbot, who has jfreen stationed in , the Wairarapa district for some time, has been ordered ,to proceed to England, to rejoin his regiment, tlio West : Yorkshires.' ' Mr. Erio Gooder, son of Mr. John iGooder, of Karori, who is with the architectural firm of Bond and Battley, London, has passed his intermediate examination of A.R.1.8.A. He has groat hopes of passing his final next month. Mr. Gooder has been in London for the past eighteen months, and when in Wellington was on the staff of Messrs. 'Penty and Lawrenco. Mr. Terence O'Brien, ex-Inspector .of ■Police, died yesterday morning at Dunedin, at the i ago of 04 j'ears (states a Press Association telegram). He arrived in New- Zealand in 1869, and joined •the police in 1874; promoted sergeant three years later; and after two years in that capacity to detective; served as sub-inspector in Christchurch, inspector in Napier, arid finally inspector in Dunedin, retiring at the end of January, 1911. Mr. O'Brien, who leaves a widow and two sons and four daughters, had been in failing health for a long time. A very old resident of Wellington in the person of Mrs. Louisa Murdoch, wife of ex-Councillor M. Murdoch, passed peacefully away at her late residence, 95 Hobson Street, yesterday morning. The late Mrs. Murdoch landed in Wellington from England in the ship Olivor Lang in 1856, and has resided in Wellington ever since. Tlio deceased lady was 68 years of age, and was a prominent church worker in the Thorndon Methodist parish. Mrs. Murdoch was married in Wellington in 1866, and leaves five sons ana three daughters. The late Assistant City .Engineer, Mr. W. D. Murdoch was a son of the deceased. Miss Maude Fane, Mr.. Sydney Mannoringj and Mr. Edgar Warwick are returning to New Zealand with the "Court Cards" early next year. All three were members of the original •''Scarlet Troubadours."