PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 62, 13 November 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death of Mr John Burns, one oi Auckland s leading merchants, is reported per Press Association. A very quiet wedding was solemnised at tlie Catholic Church yesterday aitornoon, the contracting parties being Mrs X. Sullivan, of the Commercial Hotel, and Mr R. Phelan. After the ceremony the happy couple left by motor car for the north on the honeymoon. General Bramwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, recently made his first long-distance visit since assuming the P n >t of General, going to Toronto, Canada. At a civic reception, at which Sir John Gibson, Governor of Ontario presided,,there were ten thousand present. The War Cry, in dealing with the visit, states that the Array’s work in Canada was started in 1882 by a party of officers from New York, and that now the Army was established in 472 centres. Obituary; Sir George Davies, exSpeaker of the Tasmanian Assembly. Sir George’s parents were both English. He, was born in Melbourne in 1840. His father was proprietor of the Hobart Mercury, and on his death, Sir George and Ins brother bpught the paper, fn 188 bhe entered the Tasmanian Parliament,' representing ,the Kingal district. He also served a number of terms as Mayor of Hobart. Ho took much interest in rifle shooting, and lor many years represented ‘ Tasmania at cricket.

Sir Frederick Young will lie buried at Reigate, states a London cablegram. The Duke of Argyle and representa-

tives of the Colonial Office, ‘ Commonwealth. and Colonial Institute will attend a memorial service in Saint Margaret’s, Westminster. Many messages of sympathy have been received from all parts of the Empire. (Deceased, who was born at Limehouse, London, in 1817, was vicepresident of the Royal Colonial Institute. At one time he was a merchant in London. He travelled extensively, and for many years has taken

a very prominent part in promoting the union of the Mother Country and the Colonies. He was the author of several publications dealing chiefly with the same subject. He was created at K.C.M.G. in 1888;)