PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

"Mr. Justice Denniston was a passenger from Lytteiton by the To Anau to-day. Tiie Premier returned from Wanganui to Wellington, unexpectedly last night. He went up to Feilding this morning. Amougst the passengers from the South lay the Te. Anau to-day was Colonel ctuim. 1 , Inspector of Pmutis. A presentation, waii mado by the emyloyecs of Mr. T. J. Kerr yesterday lo Rii-.' Whitiield, who is about to bo married. Lieut. -Colonel Webb, Mho lias succecil«d Lieut. -Colonel New all in the command of the Welliugton Voluulicr DWtnct, i-i puving his first oilicial vi»it to Hawkca Bay. Ivir. IluriSthouse, Chief Engineer of tlio .Bonds and. Bridges Department, is on an ofllcial visit to the liu-st Coast of the ■North. Island, The Public Trustee, who is wcruil<ng his hoaltli in tho Ilot Lakes District, will be back in, Wellington «irly nt-xt veek. Mr. Hannan, Private Secretary to tho .Native Minister, who has been on sick ioavo in the Wairarapa, has returned to Wellington with his health restored, and •will resume duty when tho lion. Mr. Carroll returns to Wellington. Mr. H. P. Tuckey, who held a. cap* taincy in one of tho New Zealand Contingents, has received an appointment in $outh Africa, and will leave for Cape,owi< by tho Snrrey to-morrow, Mr. Albert Ford,- M.1.U.E., ul.SA.fli .London, etc., takes up the management of the Welabucn Light Company of Aus'diiLusitt, Limited, iv thw city. From tit's oentre ho will control tho operations of Company throughout 'New Zetland. Wo have to record tho death of Mr. Ccorge Maxwell, brother of Mr. J. P. . Maxwell, ex-Railway Commissioner. Tho 5;-. to Mr. Maxwell, who diod at hi* resi--lenca at Kilbiruio on Saturday, was born mi Devonshire. Ho w.»s for «omo years ,in the Ktatf of the Lund und Income Tax aivl afterward* ho carried nn buNine*a in Wellitujton as a land and witaw agent. Ho le.yves a widow and a, j{rown-up daughter. Last night at Upper Hutt.lDoJton's Hull wa-5 crowded with settlors from all parts of tho district, who assembled to ohow somo appreciatioi/ for the many gond office? of Mr. Harming, tho local ♦ttttionmastcr, who is about to bo transJerrcd to To Aro. An enjoyablo evening v/ns spout, and on behalf of many friends, "Mr. H. K. Kfiwaon presented Mr. and ?*Jrs. Hai»ninjj with a beautifully ongrnved tea and cnft>B service. From the staff of Upper Hutt Station, Mr. and Mrs. HanMing abo received a hiuulsomo tJlvcr V>4Ue.