PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. R. M'Kenzie, M.H.tt. for Motueka, is at present in Wellington. Mr. Mark Cohen has been appointed a Doputv Inspector of A.sylunis, Hospitals, and Licensed Houses. Mr. W. J. Moore is gazetted Vicc-Con-snl for Sweden' and Norway at Christchurch. ' - Dr I'Vongley, of tho Public Health Department, was a passenger from Lytteltou by tho Maraio.i this morning. Included in the passengers by the Penguin from Nelson and Pictou 10-day wero tho Roys. Thurlow and O'lloilly, Dr. Putnam, und Major Taylor. Mr. PodiM'siMi, the (inwrnmenl butter expert, returned to Wellington to-day from Nelson, and has left again for Tamnaki. It i« announced in tho Gazette that Mr. U. F. Maxwoll has been appointed Resident Commissioner in tho Island of Nine, as fiom the 12lh inst. Sir Jas. Hector and Messrs. J. W. Joynt, E. Trocear, and J. Young have been appointed by tho Governor menibo i« of tho Board of Governors of tho New Zealand Institute. Mr. S. Brown last night received a hearty vote of thanks from tho City Council for a valuable gift to the library of volumes of the Scientific American and books on engineering. A Press Association telegram stales that Miss Elizabeth Wedde, of the To Aro Public School, has been appointed assistant mistress of the Napier Girls' High School. Mr. G. L. Bannatyno late manager for Messrs. D. Benjamin and Cio., leaves by tho Warrimoo to-morrow (to catch tho Moldavia at Sydney), on a business trip to England. A Dunedin Pre«» Association telegram states that Mr. John Tamblyn, one of tho oldest residents of Central Otago, died on Wednesday. Tho deceased whs tho first to start fruit planting at Coal Creek. Our Gwyfown North corre-spondent telegraphs that Mr. Alfred Beard, forty years of age, died of typhoid fever at noon to-day. The deceased waa a &on of the. la to Mr. James Beard, a very old resident. \ Signor NerliJ tho clover Italian artist, several of whcjso best paintings aro in Now Zealand, will leave Australia shortly for Italy, lt is stated that Signor Nerli is a nephew of tho present Popo, and that it is probable ho will be appointed Limner to nis /Holiness. Mr. Ross Goro (son of the Into Mr. R. B. Gore), who was for many years in the service of the Australian Mutual I'rovulent Society, has been appointed inspector of agencies in New South Wulea for tho Mutual Life Association of New York. Mr. A. H. Cokayno, of Christchurch, lm.s received the appointment of ji.ssifftnnt to tho Government Biologist, at a .«mlnry of £175 a year. 'Mr. Cokayno, who Ih v son of Dr. Cokayne, of Christchurch, was trained at Canterbury College, and was highly recommended to the Government byl Profe»jor» Chiltou and Dendy. Tho following havo been added to the Ityt of officiating 1 , minmters under tho Marriago Act 1880 : — Church of England : Revs. G. H. Heather, T. B. Kyngdon, E. 31. Wyatt, H. W. Klingender. and A. 11. Julius. Congregational JndepoiulonU* : Revs. W. S. Fernie, W. Newman Hall, and Bi L. Thomas. Baptists: Roy. M. J. B. Bennett.. Primitive. Methodist: Revs. C. A. Sims and E. Wurbnrton. The City Council last' night agreed lhat Mr. Stuart Richardson, tho city's asMStant electrical engineer, be permitted to continue his services as instructor in elec- ! trical engineering (it the Technical School until the new director for technical instruction arrives in tho colony, on condition thut, should Mr. Richardson bo unable to attend any class meeting, the onus of finding a substitute ahull not ho laid on him. Tho following appointments are gazotUAl: — Albert A. I Cairns, cadet in tho Audit Office ; David W. Mnson, clork in tho Supremo nnd Magistrate's Courts ut Napier ; John Daw&on, cadet in tho Supreme, District, and Magistrate's Courts at Now Plymouth ; Jumes Christie, cadet in the CroWn Law Office; James Il'.I I . Thompson, cadet draughtsman in the Department of Lands and Survey ; Eleanor ] O. Gideon, clerical cadctte in the Department of Lands and Survey. In accordance with its promise to tho j House to effect retrenchment in the Defence Department, tho Government has decided to retire several officers of that branch of the Public Service. Amongst the number is Major Norman L. D. Smith, staff officer to tho Commandant. Major Smith was for many years connected with Christ's College Rifles, and ho crmo up from Christchurch to join tho Defence Department shortly beforo the Boor War broke out. Ho went to South Africa in command of tho flotchkiss Battery which was attached to tho Second New Zealand Contingent.. Sinco his return ho has been on iho Commandant's stall. Percy Burbidge, who has won tho National Scholarship for the Wellington district, is a son of Mr. William Burbidgo, greengrocer, of Wobb-strect, and was thirteen years of ag,o on tho 3rd of tho present y month. Ho Jias received tho wholo of hut education at the Mount Cook Boys' School. At the last examination in connection with tho Wellington Sunday School Union ho won tho first prize in his class, and alw (ho special prize for the highest number of marks obtained by any of tho 431 candidates. A littlo later on he carried off tho prizo for the best essay by a boy on the Salvation Army's industrial exhibition in tho Skating Rink. Subsequently ho carried off one of the Board of Education scholarships, beating all othor competitors, and ho waa also .successful in winning a Queen's Hchohuship in connection with Victoria. College. In tho ialter exuminalion ho was at Iho top of the list for Wellington city. He has now capped all Ma recent successes by winning the National Scholarship.