PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 135, 4 December 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

» Mr. Joseph Lachman, who has been seriously ill, is now able to leave his bod. Mr. Justice Cooper will leave for Blenheim on Monday to preside at tho hearing of tho Floxbourno compensation case. The Attorney -General, who has been unwell for tho past fortnight, has gone to Wtiikiinao lo recuperate. It is officially notified that Mr. H. U. Campbell has retired from the positions held by him as Inspector of Stock, etc. Mr. T. 12. Donne,' Superintendent of Tourist Resorts, left to-day for Auckland on departmental business. Ho will be away for about a week. Sir Donald Robertson, British Resident at Mysore, and Lady Robertson, will remain in New Zealand until 31st Marcl^ when they will leave Wellington for London. The Secretary for Education will leave for Auckland to-morrow for the purjx>so of inspecting the Victoria Maori Girls' School. He will bo back in Wellington next week. Mr. W. H. George, ot tLa firm of George and Kersley, fc making a business visit to the* Old Country ana the Continent early in the new year. He will probably travel by way of Japan and Canada. , Sinco his arrival In the colony, Mr. Pedersen, tho Danish butter expert engaged by the Government, has beon making himself acquainted with the system of cool storage in Wellington. After he has had a conference with Mr. M'Gowan, . Acting Dairy Commissioner, ho will leave on an inspection of tho butter factories in the colony, probably on Monday. Mr. J. F. Macartney, managing director of Macartney, M'Elroy and Co., Ltd., London, contractors for tho new Wellington electric tramways, has arrived in Wellington, where he expecta to make a stay of some three or four weeks. ll© states that the whole of tho material required for the Wellington tramways is now either here or en route, and tho work will bo completed within contract time. The marriage of Mr. Wynford Beere, civil engineer, with Miss Eva , Thane, daughter of Mr. W. T. Thane, was solemnised at the Catholic Apostolic Church, Webb-street, yesterday forenoon before a lurge gathering of friehds. The bride was given away by her father, and was attended by her threo sisters, Dora, Fannie, and Agnes, the groom being assisted by My. Ernest Anderson. The wedding took place this afternoon of Mr. John S. Butler, formerly of the Government Life Insurance staff,' and now of Wanganui, to Miss Margaret Jano Sloan, youngest daughter of Mr. James Sloan, of Wellington. The ceremony was performed by tho Rev. Dr. Gibb at the residence of the bride's parents, Hawker-street. The bride, who Was given away by her father, was attended by Misses Nellie and Frances Harris as bridesmaids. Mr. A. H, Johnstone was best man, and Mr. H. Diivieo groomsman. Dr. Wolilaunn, Govornmont Baineologiet, is writing a handbook descriptivo of the mineral waters of the colony, and their effloocy. It is intended for the information of tho general public, and of medical men who m*y ltavo patiento for treatment by tho water cure. It in his conviction, the result of careful investigation, that New Zealand has a vnlunblo asset in her mineral springs, how vuluablo it Ls scarcely realised as yet, and to obtain a fraction of the full value tho colony must be prepared to expend monoy fairly freely in making their virtues known to tho world. Ilj will be resumed with heavy interest. A largo party of friends of Mr. Marcus F. Marks, Hansard supervisor, who leaves Wellington to-morrow on a six months' trip to Englan^ entertained him at a dinner 'at GodbW's Rooms last evening. The chair was occupied by Mr. John Mackay, Government Printer, nnd amongst those present were the Right. Hon. the Premier, nnd the Honn. J. Carroll, and J. M'Gowan. The Hons. Sir J. G. Ward, W. Hall-Jones, and C. H. Mills, and Mr. John Duthie, M.H.R., wrote apologising for their absence, and expressing their appreciation of the capable manner in which Mr. Marks had always performed his duties in connection with the publication of Hansard. A very pleasant evening was spent with toasts, fiansL. and story t j