PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

His Excellency the Governor and his son, Lord Northland, went south to Duu•jdiu by the Mararoa last night. The Minister for Public Works is expected to roturn to Wellington early next week. Measrfl. Hono Hoke and Wi Pere, M.H.R.'b, aro taking part* in tho nativo meeting afc Waipatu, near Hastings. Mr. T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, left la«t evening to attend tho Sci»nsa Congress in Dunedin. Mr. C. D. Morpotb, who was badly hurt by a fall from a bicycle during last week, is rapidly recovering from the injury which he U»en received. The Chief Government Veterinarian <Mr. J. A. 1 Gilruth), who has been on a visit- to Australia, is expected back tonight by tho Corinthio from Hohart. He will bo accompanied by Mrs. Gilrulh. The Governor of Queensland (Sir Herbert Chermside) and party, who have beon on a visit to the Hot Lakes district, are coming oa to Wellington by the Wanganui River route. Sir Donald and Lady Robertson, who have been spending somo weeks at Rotonta,, are expected to arrive in Wellington next week. Sir Donald was formerly British Resident at Mysore, India. Mr. 0. F. Hill, »tationmaster at Ma»terton, is suffering from a comploto breakdown, th« result of overwork. Mr. T. Couper is relieving him at the Masterton railway station. Mr. Edward Tregcor, Secretary for Labour, loft for Duucdin last ovening for thd purpose of attending the meeting of • the Australasian Aswoiation for tho Advancement of Science. He is a Vice-Pre-•ideivt of tho Association. Dr« Talbot, who haa been for wrao time assistant medical officer at the Timaru Hospital, has left that institution in order to go to London to gain there a larger experience in tho practice of hia profession. Tho death is announced of Mr. Patrick Kenny M'Caugh&n, formerly a very wellknown rnnholder in Southland. He was at ono time a member of tho House of RepreeefttaHwa for Rrverton. He was for a number of years in Melbourne snbaequently, having mado n. largo fortune by fortunate speculation. He ouilt a large pile of buildings in Melbourne known as Uie Rm&>. Mr. A, Ifamilton. the newly-appointed Diwctor of tho Colonial Museum, has gone south in company with Mr. liedr Joy, Director of tlie Australjau Museum, Sydney, and Mr. Dotine, general inaiiXof the New Sooth Wales Railways, are on' thoir way to attend the Sci«aco Congress at Dttnedin. Before tho Congress starts, however, they intend taking a short trip to Qucenstown to view the mountain, eccnery. Mr. A. H. Pedder, committeo clerk to tho Wellington City Council, was married in Okrialchurch on tho 30th inst. to Miss Esther Anderson, daughter of the late Mr. A. F. Anderson, formerly general manager in New Zealand for the New Zealand Land Company. On the eve of tfoo marriage tho Town Clerk's staff p»esented Mr. Pedder with several Vedding gifts of a suitablo character, nnd WB»«d him joy in his married state. The death is announced from New Plymouth of Mr. C. D. Whitcombe, aged 68 yearn, formerly Commissioner of Crown Lands and Secretary to the Provincial Council of Taranaki. He was secretary to Sir George Grey in Auckland during the eighties »nd foreign adviser to tho Tongan Government. Deceased was brother to Mr. George Whitcombe, of Whitcombft and Tombs, and Mr. F. S. Whit'combßf Railway Traffic Manager, at WangooiM. Mr. Thomas P. Purves, general manager of the New York Lifo Insurance Company- for Australasia is paying his annual visit) to the Now Zealand branches. He is now in Wellington, and will leave for Dunedin on Thursday. A cable message just received states that the new business completed by tlte company during tho rxuft year amounted to £67,000,000, an increase of about £5,000,000 over tho record of 1902. The total amount insured by the company— said to be the largest life inmtfance office in tho worldit now £359,000,000. Writing from Durban under date 9tU November, Mr. A. G. Hume, Hou. Secretary of the New Zeolanders' Association, mentioned that Mr. "Barney" Rose (son of Captain H. Rose, kto of Wellington, and brother of Messrs. H. and J. Rose, of the Lwor Hutt) has been on a holiday visit to Durban, having journeyed 'from Middelburg, Cape Colony, where hie regiment (the Manchesters) is quartered. Mr. Hume had also received a call from Mr. L. Studholme, of Christchurch, who had just completed a zfccmsftA three months' "big gam«" hunting expedition in Central Africa, during which time he secured trophies of pretty well every known species of "big game"' excoptifig elephants and lions. Mr. Studholme was then waiting for a steamer in which to return to New Zealand.