PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 58, 6 September 1905, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Dr. Fitchett, the Solicitor-Genesal, who ' has been indisposed for some time, has gone to Otaki for change of air. Mr. Justice Cooper will be back in Wellington from Invercargill on Friday morning. % Mr. A. L. D. Fraser, M.H.R., left for Napier this morning to attend in 8 fun--•jral of the late Dean Hovell. The members of the Diamond Associas tion Football Club last evening presented a marble clock to Mr. C. Hathaway is a wedding gift. The Rev. John Dawson, who has been •n charge of fhe Webb-street Primitive Methodist Church for some years, has iccepted an invitsvtion to remain, in hie )resent position for another tewn. Last evening the Bandmaster, Mr. H. Baker, on behalf of the Central Mission Band, presented Mi"! Harry Turner, an old member of the band, with a Svedding jift. The Rev. Wm. Gittos, who has spent no less than forty-five years in the Maori mission, and is still a very vigorous mall, is ab present in Wellington on Methodist Homo Mission deputation work. He is probably one of the most experienced Maori students now living. Mr Gittos is accompanied by his assistant, the Rev. Hone Han. Quito a number of .prominent »newspaper people are afc present in Wellington Thess include Messrs. G. 'Fenwick (Otago Daily Times), H. Bell and M. Cohen (Dunedih Star), H-. Sorton (New Zealand Herald), J C-. Wilkin (Lyttel■ton Timeß), P. Selig (Chrisfcchurch Press), C. H. Walker (Wanganui Herald), and P. Dinwiddie (Hawkes Bay Herald). After a comprehensive business tour of the United .States and .Canada, Mr. W» Brown, of the firm of Messrs. Lacry and Co.; has returned to Wellington. He has had a very pleasant time. He took Ihe Vanconver route both to and fro, travelling in tho first place from Vancouver down the Pacific Coast to Los Angeles, then across to Now York, to Montreal, and back to \Jancouver via the Canadian Pacific Railway. • Mr. Claudo Coldicutt, at one time &mnected with the dispensary department of the Wellington Hospital* is studying medicine at tho. Edinburgh University. In recent class examinations he obtained first-class honours and medal in medical jurisprudence, first-class honours (next prize) in diseases of tho ear, nose, and throatj and second-class honours in^prac■•tical pathology, midwifery, and diseases of women. Mr. Coldicutt passed his second professional examination last March. Mr. Hugo Heertnann, the German violinist, while in Christchurch, hoard Miss Irfene Mortis play. Mr. Heermann informed Herr Hoppe that he was much impressed with her playing, and says that she is worthy of being sent Home. He predicts a brilliant future for her, declaring that she is a rt little genius," and New Zealanders ought to send Miss Morris Home for five or six years' study. The young player is well known in Wellington, and is the daughter of Mr. R. B. Morris, of the Christchurch Post Office. At St. Joseph's Church, Buckle-street, to-day, Mounted Constable L. E. O'Halloran, of Mount Cook, was married to Miss Mary Gallagher, also of Wellington. The cenhonywas performed by the Rev. Father O'Shea. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Lily Gallagher, as bridesmaid, and Mr. Costello, of Chrißtchurch, acted as best man. Last evening Mounted Constable O'Halloran's comrades of tho local Police Force presented him at the Mount Cook Station with a memento of their- eSteem. He has been stationed at Wellington for nearly nine years. Mr. Alexander J. Geary, of the Town Clerk's staff (only son of Mr. A. Geary, of the Customs Department) was married at 3t. Peter's Church this afternoon, to Miss Alice Maude Petherick, second daughter if Mr. F. G. Petherick, one of Wellington's early settlers. The ceremony was performed by the Vicar of St. Peter's {Rev G. P. Davys) assisted by the Rev. Mr. Maclaverty. The service was zhoral, the bridegroom having been a member of the choir for many years, and the Wedding March *was played by Dr. Fyffe as tho bridal party left the church. Che bride was attended" by Misses Nellie Ballinger and Vera Petherick (her cousins) and Miss Barbara Waters. Mr. A. Petherick was best man, and Mr. F. J. Jones Acted as groomsman. Feed (the New South Wales correspondent of the iPastoralists' Review reports) is plentiful. The only discordant notes sounded in pastoral circles are in connection with the attacks of blow-fly, the prevalence o£ footrot, tho increase of rabbits, the depredations of foxes among the young lambs, and the sudden cold snaps, which have a bad effect on tha uewlyrfihorn sheep in ihe iiortfh. Many hola tho Belief that .the large number of poisoned irabbit carcases lying about the country are responsible for the fly-pest, and this is very feasible. Some men are combating the attacks of fly-olow by using poisonous dipping preparations. The country, tno adds, is infested with quacks wilo have "infallible" methods of rabbit-extermina-tion. The following are the recommendations contained in the report of the Immigration Commission, which has been laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly : — Sfettlement of under the most satisfactory conditions by the most suitable type of persons would, in the opinion at tne Commission, reach the fullest degree of success by the adoption of the following recommendations : — 1. Abolition of land selection before survey. 2. Authorisation of pioneer lines of railways frrhen justified by the quality of the land. Z. Survey of lands within 10 or 15 niile& of authorised railway lines into suitable blocks for agriculture. 4. Reservation for^ town, sites, for recreation and education, including experimental farms. 5. Reservation of special areas for selection by groups of persons from outside the Commonwealth. 6. Prices of lands irt deferred parents to include interest and sinking fund, calculated to repay cost of railway. r 7. All native phosphates, or other fertiliser, -to be conserved for use Within the State. 8. Benefits of the agricultural bank to be confined, to persons within the State after a specified date. 9. Evidence secured by the Com"Mission to be- brought under the notice of ntudcnts in the agricultural colleges and universities, of farmers with capital throughout the Mother Land and North .tanenca, and the -more prominent agricultural communities of the Continent, with offers of facilities to delegates to inspect land. 10. Farmers to be permitted to bring with them expert agriculturist* in their employ. 11, Government agents to be stationed at ports of landing to meet, and aasi«t with information to, and direction of all new comers proposing to ecttle on the land. The Acting Under-Secretary for Agriculture, Weatern Australia, has written officially to Mr. J. Bell, Karris-street, Rozelle, expressing high approval of his system for restoring old orchards. The Horticultural and Viticultural Expert reported: — "My attention has already been dAwn to Mr. Bell's process of barkgrafting or budding old peach trees, and I have since applied it with auccese to grafting a fig tret, one of the most difficult trees to graft on. account of the shrinking of the bark after it is cut." A description of Mr. Bell's method with illustration and comment* by the expert has already been published In the Journnl •f Airicuttuze oi Western Australia. •