PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Lieut-Colonel Bauchope has returned from an inspection of tho Wanganui volunteers. Captain Richardson, of tho Defence Department, arrived from the South by the Rotomahana this morning. The condition of Professor Haslam, of Christchurch, who is aoriously ill, bad slightly improved at latest advices. Professor Maclaurin leaves for Napier to-day on his way to Sydney via Auckland. He will arrive in America by the end of tbe year. Mr. D. M*Laren; General Secretary of the 2few Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, has returned to Wellington. from the East. Coast. A resolution of condolence was passed by the Lower Hutt Borough Council la*st evening to ex-Councillor Cudby, whose wife recently died. The Engineer in Chief to the Public Works Department, Mr. E. W. Holmes, will leave to-day to inspect the northern 'Main Trunk Railway-. Mr. J. H. Dearsley,- welMcnown for many years as counter clerk in the Chrißtchurch Telegraph Office, will retire on pension at the end of next January. t After presiding over aj- series of commissions in Hawkes Bay, and at Cambridge, Mr. W. S. Short, chief clerk of the Roads Department, has returned to Wellington. .„__—_■_—_ Mr. W. T. Scully, assistant-ofSceTi'iv charge of Telegraphs at Auckland, who is now on leave, will retire on pension on account of ill-health, as from 28th February next. Staff-Captain Ward, of tha Salvation Army, "who has bad charge of the young peoples' work in the North Island for some time, leaves to-day for Christchurch to take up similar work throughout the South Island. • Captain M'Beth. of the Warrhnoo, leaves shortly to bring out the Topua, the new Island trader now building for the Union Company, says a Press Association telegram. The Topua leaves early next year. .Captain Livingstone, who brought \ out the Maori, has gone Home to act as assistant supervising engineer at the Clyde for the Union Co. Brigadier Bray, who has charge of the Salvation Army social work throughout Australasia, will arrive in Wellington to-morrow. H& is visiting Nev; Zealand, in connection, with the Inebriates' Home, to be established at Bell's Island, Auckland, but while he is ia the Dominion he will attend to otKov matters connected with his -work. A large number of the railway staff met in. the statipnmaster's officey, Christchurcb, on Saturday,' to say 'farewell to Mr. J. W. Piper, stationmaster, who is retiring on superannuation after forty years' service. On behalf of subscribers, Mr, S. F. Whitcombe • (traffic manager) presented Mr. Piper with a handsome silver tea and coffee service and a cased pipe as an expression of goodwill. ' y .Mr. P. R. Purser, Town Clerk of Lower Hutt, recently forwarded his resignation of that position to the council. He was induced however, to reconsider tho matter and at last night's meeting it was announced that he had withdrawn his resignation. Mr. Purser's thoroughness and the value of his services are .well-known to several sucpesBive councils, and he could ill be spared at the present juncture. Amongst the passengers for Wellington by the lonic, due here next Tuesday, are/* Mrs. H. D- Crawford, Mrs. Earp-Thomas, Mr. T. H. Lawry, Mrs. Dowdeswell and the Misses Dowdeswell, Rev. C. Isaacson and Mts. Isaacson, Mrs. E. M'Ardle, Mrs.- Lomax, and Miss N.- Lomax. Other* passengers include Surgeon-Major-Goneral P. S. Turnbull, and Col. A. L". Bayley (Auckland), Mrs. and. Mrs. C. Kinross White (ICapier), and Commander W. J. W. Steward, R.N. (Lyttelton). An, old and respected' citizen, Mr. Edwin Jones, died this morning at the residence of Mr. Hill-Beckett, Cre6wickterrace, Northland, in his 74tb year. He had been in New Zealand for 36 years, and his genial and sympathetic nature won him many friends. He was one of the originators of the Working Men's Club, and for » long time took an active interest in its management. A Staffordshire man by birth, h& was a brother of tho late William Jones, R.N., Inspector of Machinery at Portsmouth, but he had no relatives in the- Dominion. Yesterday afternoon in the Native Affairs Committee Room, Parliamentary Buildings, a handsome silver salver was presented to Mr. George Henry Davies, who' lately retired from the- position of chief translator in the Native Department owing to ill-health after 35 years' service. , The Hon. James Carroll, Native Minister, made the presentation, and spoke in highly eulogistic terms of the work done by Mr. Davies, with whom he had served as a cadet. There was a very large gathering of subscribers' and others, including Messrs. A. L. D. Fraser, W. H. Herries, A. T. Ngata, Hone Heke, T. 1 Parata, and H. Kaihau, M.P.'s, Chief Judge Palmer and Judge Fisher, Undcr-Secretary. Mr. Davies suitably responded, and Mr. A. L. D. Fraser then made a few remarks at the request of the Minister, further referring to Mr. Davies's past services. Mr. T. Parata also spoke on behalf of members of tho native race.