PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 149, 23 December 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. W/ Cable leaves for Auckland by to-night's train. Mrs. Arthur Warburton, of Wellington., is lying ill at "Glenalvon" in Auckland. Messrs. John and Sidney Kirkcaldie came back from Sydney by the Mahono this morning. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) is expected to return to Wellington from Auckland this evening. Lieut.-Col. Hume, Inspector of Prisons, who has been on a visit of inspection to Auckland, returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr. H. Y. Edmonds, of the A.M. P. Society, who has been seriously ill far the past six weeks, has slightly improved in health. Mr. Charles Tandy, of Wellington, who went to' the Old Country some months ago, returned to New Zealaad by ths Maheno to-day. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Krull and Miss Krull, of Wanganui, who have been on a visit to Europe, returned to Wellington by the Maheno this morning. Professor Macmillan Brown, of Christchurch, who has been on an extended tour in the Far East, was a passenger from Sydney by the- Maheno to-day. Mr. A. Lindsay, of the firm of Lindsay and Co., boot importeis, and Mrs. Lindsay, returned from a trip to the Old Country by the Maheno this morning. Mr. Anthony F. Wilding and Mr. F. Mi B. Fisher, M.P., who took part in the championship lawn tennis meeting at Sydney, returned to Wellington last evening. They will play at Nelson in the New Zealand tennis championship during the holidays. ' Mrs. Gibb, wife of Dr. Gibb, who underwent an operation at Melbourne on the return journey from the Old Country, was a passenger to Wellington, by the Maheno to-day. Miss Gibb, who went to Melbourne to meet her mother, also came back by the same vessel. Mr. J. "A. Hutton, Chief Postmaster, yesterday presented Mi. 0. W. Curtis with a mark of esteem from fellow letter-carriers, on the occasion of his transfer to the Hwtt. Mr. Hutton also presented a handsome salad bowl to Mr. C. W. Bell from brother lettercarriers, the recipieut being about to be married. Mr. F. W. vvaldegrave, Under-Secre-tary for Justice, who has been on a year's trip to the Old Country and Europe, returned to Wellington by the Maheno to-day. During a portion of that period Mr. Waldegrave represented the New Zealand Government at the International Conference on Workmen's Insurance, held at Rome. Mr. S. N. Doust, the New South Wales tennis player, arrived by the Mah-eno to-day. He is> playing with Parker in the New Zealand and 1 Nolscn championship doubles at Nelson. Miss Travers. is his partner for both combined events. Doust is a young player of great promise, and has risen rapidly into the championship ranks. Mr. F. W. Manton, of Wellington, arrived in Auckland on Monday after an interesting overland journey from Wellington, he having walked nearly the whole of the distance from Napier to Waihi through the heart of the Urewera country. He was eleven days on this portion (telegraphs our Auckland correspondent), and he walked in all some 240 miles. He was overtaken by heavy rain on two days, and on the second of these occasions he was also without food. The death is reported of an old and respected resident of Wellington,- Mrs. Charles John Johnson, of Clyde-street, Island Bay. The deceased lady lived for many years in Murphy-street, Thorndon, and was well known because of her charitable and hospitable disposition. She leaves a husband and family of three sons and four daughters. The funeral took place yesterday, the interment being made in ithe Bolton-street cemetery. 1 The Rev. Fancourt offioiated at tho graveside. The Tourist Department has received from the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History a copy of a resolution of ihat body, reading as follows : "Resolved that the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History gratefully appreciate the gensr ous way in which Mr. T. E. Donne has served the interests of this museum, and, in" recognition of his numerous contributions of New Zealand material to the museum's ethnological collections, take pleasure in hereby electing him c life member."