PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 125, 22 November 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. T. Wnrdell is to leave this afternoon for Sydney. Lieutenant-Colonel Hume, Inspector of prisons, who went to Rotorua in 'ha early part of the month to recuperate after a severe attack of influenza, will be back in Wellington to-morrow. Mr. J. Moore, a prominent member of the Oriental (Wednesday) Ciicket Club, was the recipient of a presentation from his club mates on the occasion of bis marriage. on Wednesday last. The governors of the Wanganui Girls' College have appointed Miss Frances , Grant, 8.A., of Wellington Training j College, assistant mistress at the Wanganui institution, telegraphs our Palmerston correspondent. - Tho funeral of the late Mr. Francis H. Dunford, builder of Levin, and formerly of Petono, who died in the Wellington Hospital on Monday, took place at.Akatarawa yesterday, being at-tended-'by a large number of friends. Mi\ John Hood, a respected resident of Oamarn for the past forty years, died at that place on"' Wednesday. He leaves eight sons and three daughters. Mr.- Ronald "P Hood, well known here in athletic circles, left with his brother Ralph last night to attend the funeral of their father. Last night's Gazette contains notifications that Mr. W. Waddell has been appointed deputy-superintendent of the Government Advances to Settlers' Office ; that Mr. R. N. Percy has been appointed deputy registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for the' Hutt district; that the appointment of Dr. Albert Martin as* consul for Chili at Wellington has been recognised ; that Mr. Francis Hume's appointment as a lieutenant of the D Battery of Artillery has been confirmed. A presentation was >made last night by the staff of Messrs. Young and Tripe to Mr. W. T. Churchward, who Ik leaving Wellington for Blenheim, ■where he intends to start practice on his own account as a barrister and solicitor. Mr. Stevens, in handing Mr. Churchward some legal works, referred to the very cordial relations which had always existed between the recipient and the whole staff. The principals also gave Mr. Churchward a valuable present on his severing his connection with the firm.. A -fresh occasion for sympathy with Mr. Chamberlain comes in tho announcement that his smoking allowance has been cut down to three cigars a day (writes a London correspondent). There have been -worse instances of medical tyianny, however, and it is some, mitigation that the three remaining* cigars may ,be greea ones. According to his Birmingham friends, Mr. Chamberlain has fully gained his mental activity, and physically he is well enough now to admit of his walking several hours ft day and superintending the work in his splendid garden at Highbury. The gout relinquishes its grip of him reluctantly, but the improvement in his condition, though slow, is progressive. Another trip to the Riviera, briefer than the last, and there will be a definite i prospect of his return for a time to \ the fighting line of British politics. His old friend Mr. Jesse Cqllings stated the other day that the tariff reformers may hope to see their leader among them some time 'after the opening of the next Parliamentary session. His services have been greatly missed, especially by the younger section of the Unionist party, who have been accustomed to look to him for, the inspirai tion which Mr. Balfour, through his habit of caution and his Micawberish tendencies, has denied them.