PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 146, 19 June 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

B . £-■■■ -■..'.: I! Sub-Inspector_-Gordott. returned from Whangarei by.the Ngapuhi yeaterday. Mr E. C.Tsaac, Inspector of Tech—teal Schools, arrived in Auckland yesterday I on-a.-visit of inspection. ...... ;..: : i: Captain 5.7 A. Richards*. Government Mining Inspector for Coait,arrived in Auckland yesterday by tH«rr Tarawera,' - I . Mr jl'p. Stephens, a en* J gineer in the Union Company's service, • died at: Port Chalmers last week from j consumption. ••■'.'■" w I The question of selecting an Opposii tion candidate for this Waite_ata seat I at next election was considered last even-.'■"• | ing at""a" meeting of MrE. W. Alison • i supporters, and the names of Mr L. P--I PhiUipps' (President of the N„ l?arßS- | ers* Union),- and' Mr',.J. Clark (formerly j pastor at the Tabernacle) were : mentioned, It was agreed to .ask' tne twa gentlemen' to' attend another meeting: next Tuesday night, and make known their opi—ions. on.various political topics. j' The twelfth annual report of. the. dX I rectors of the Clevedon Steam Naviga- ! tion .-Company Ltd™ ; show* receipts for" I the- year amounting to £1991 1/3,, and; i expenditure^£ 1510 17/4,leaving,a Mr- : ; | plus-; of- £480 -3/11.: ; of: j' £150 had been written off for depree—r ! tion on plant, and a like amount added . 'to the reserve fund, leaving a balance ; of £18 3/11, which, added to the amount of £97 9/1 brought".forward from last year, leaves a-, balance, of £277,: IS/-. This . "amount the directors recommend should be disposed of by the payment of a dividend at the rate of 7} per cent.," absorbing £187 10/-, the balance, £90 3/-, to. be carried forward to next year's : accounts. >~" During the hearing of a claim at the S.M. Court this morning, "the question turned on the alleged acceptance by defendant of' a quantity of fish. Mr Kettle, SJC.,'. remarked that he waa Ot . opinion that fishermen should have boom' agent to protect their interests in tho disposal of fish. "This Woold," he Mid, "have the result of paying the men i»e—, There - should be someone to pass the: fish on the. vessel,- and to" say.to the merchants-—"Accept it or decline it?*):" two; years ago .I suggested an arrangement which would pay both;fish merchants and fishermen. ■'\ Nothing -haa been "done. I cannot understand why the merchants do not have come iott of private agreement, and the fishermen an association to look after their rate*- •'•; ests." . The body of Mr. H. R. Laing, who ni drowned in the Tangowabine Creek hist Thursday, —as recovered on Wednesday, not more than thirty feet from the pice where he sank. The remainswere brought .7 ' to Auckland and* interred at Waikumete. Missing letters and postcards are often traced by postal officials" to the interior ■_. of newspapers, hundreds, and in some i eases thousands, of miles away ■ '-.ixom : .'— their:intended destination.'-.''lnordert» / meeir.. the ; trouble the 'State have proposed tor theY Co—monwealffc Postmaster-General a new laving down certain fßUietiMßyynai ■ respect to the j»eparatlo_ of _u*ipsp*r» for the post; 1 ■;,;.;. : . : . '■:-': 7.7.y'.:->: ' ..'■:-■ ' -:.:■..'.'.■