PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 132, 4 June 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police, has rehinii-d fiom the Manairaiii. Mrs. E. Mack Jost, of London, leaves Wellington for Sydney thia afternoon. Tho tiecictary for Agriculture (Mr. Ritchie) will return from tho South tomorrow. The Minister for Customs (Hon. C. 11. Mills) and tho Attorney-General (Hon. Colonel Pitt) aro back in town -tho founcr from Blenheim ai.d tho latter from Auckland. Tho following visitors are staying at tho Royal Oak Hotul : — Misses A. nnd M. B. Thomson (Edinburgh), Mcwn. Fred T. Wimble (Melbourne), and A. >S. Goold (Edinburgh). Mr. Robert Moir, of Dunedin, has been appointed gardener to the Wanganui Borough. Mi\ Moir is forom.iu at the Dunedin Botanical Gaulens. Tht've ■weio thirty-three applicant» for the position. Tho Oamaru Mail reports ,lhat the illness of Mr. D. M'CniLkott, cvangi'lust of the Church of Ohviat (late of Novtown) has taken a moio favoui.iblc turn. Mr. M'Craekeit wus Bi-riouwly ill nt tho beginning of this week. Before leaving Lytieiton, Captain J. E. Hume, of tho Royal New Zealand Artillery, who has been transferred to Wellington, was presented by tho jnombcis of No. 7 Company, Garrison Artillery, with a silver entree dish, suitably inscribed. Mrs. Euskico Brandon, widow, of the j late Henry Eustace do Bathe Brandon (eldest son of tho lato Hon. Alfred do Bathe Brandon), diod at her residence in rinakori-road last owning, aged 52 years. Tho late Mr. Eustace Brandon died in 1886, within a few weeks of the deeoa&o of his father. t ■ Mr. O. A. Ulrich, of Wellington, loft for Sydney this afternoon en route for America and Europe. He will visit tho St. Louis Exhibition, and later on take delivery of live gold dredges which aie being built in Scollaud and Germany for the \Vest Coast, according to his plans and specifications. Ho hopes to be back in Wellington about the end of the year. J)r. A. M'Arthur, S.M., is at pie&ent confined to his room by indisposition. Although unwoll for several ci.iya, ho has been discharging his Magisterial duties as usual, in the hope of soon regaining strength. This i» tho fiist occasion on which Dr. M'Arthur hns been incapacitated by illness for fifteen years. Ho expects to bo well enough to pro.side at the annual meeting of tho City licensing nieelhig on Monday. Mr. M. J. Crombio, who is leaving Wellington for Inglowood on next to joiu the legal linn of Malonu, iti'Vcagli, and Anderson, was entertained at St. Patrick's Hall, laat night, by the Old Boys of St. Patrick's College and members of tho Catholic Club; and presented with a travelling bag and .rug. The Rev. Father Kimboll piesided, and several of the local clergy were present, and a laage gathering of members. When Mr. Justice Cooper took his seat on the Supremo Court Bench this mqrning, Mr. Geo. Moo (Foreman) and Mr. Gray, on behalf of the jury and tho bar, congratulated his Honour' on his recovery from 'tho illness which had caused him to adjourn tho Court on Thursday afternoon. His Honour thanked the gentlemen for their sympathy, and added that thi> little trouble that he hud buffered from had been removed. Mr. William Stuart, District Land Registrar in Wellington, will reliro from tho Public Sorvico at the end of tho present month, and will be succeeded by Mr. .L M. Batham, at present a Judge of tlio Native Land Court. Mr. Batham formerly occupied t)io position which Mr. Stuart is nbout to vacate. Mr. Stuart joined the Otago Provincial Council service in 1868. In 1866 ho entered the Ganeral Government &ervico as Registrar of Deeds' at Invercarsjill. In 1879, he resigned, but in tho following .year he accepted the office of Deputy Property Tax Commissioner for Southland. He joined the Land Transfer Department in 1881, and has been stationed in Wellington »inco 1897. Nnpier was gnily decorated yesterday in honour of the- Governor, who was farewelled by tl\o. citizens of the capital of Hawkes Buy. The Mayor (Mr. Carnell) .spoko in terms of high praise of the interest taken by Lord llnnlur'.y in establishing the veterans' Homo, and Sir William TlusEoll also made an # interesting speech, remarking that Jl is 'Excellency would ta'fo away with him the kindly thanks of the colonists for the work hehad done nmaiigst them. His Excellency in replying assured his auilicncA that the Veterans' Home is a mpitnJls Mtunted one, and a inowt excellent uvrti'iy place for thofio colonists who havo given tlu' beet years of their life iv the service of the country. As to a fiucgietion by the Mayor that the Horns should be called the-Ranfurly Homo, he wid lie would not like that dt'ftll. lie would yathor »?o his name attached to Win achemo of Enipiiv-history-teachiug, afliir his departure fn>i» tho colofly. His Excellency was the guest of the citizens at a ball in the evening, and subsequently loft with tho Hon. J. Carroll for Uisborue.

Mr. W. F. Shortt will hold a nalo at hia mart at 2 o'clock on Monday of a varied a?hortmonl of furniture, oto. Messrs. Lovion, Shallorass and Co. will sell at their mart, WiUij-atireot, on Tuesday morning, at 11 o'o ock, a number of cusos of cod fish blocks and a, quantity of hams aud bacon. Mossr«. Townecnd and Paul advorluu particulars of Uujir first nursery stdck s»lo this season. A largo oousignmant will bo offered noxt Wednouday, the Bth iiut., at 2 o'clock. Tho ialo, which ii on bohalf of tho Morahcad Company, of Now Plymouth, will bo hold in tho firm's rooms, in Hav-ris-stroot. * Messrs. Sidoy, Mooch and Co. advertise that tlioy will conttnuo tho Bale of unredeemed pleilgPß on account of Messrs. Fruhauf and Co. at thoir rooms on Monday, at 1.30 sharp. On Tuosday thoy will noil a large quantity of household furniture and effects, removed to the mart for oouvonionoo of sale; and on Wednesday will soil household furniture and effects at tho residonco of Mr. (I. K. Oaoley, Uppor Hiitt. lull purtioulars of all thosio sales appQur in our auotion columns. Mows. J. H. Bothuna and Co. advortua a land auction salo for Wodnosday, 22nd hut., at 8.30 p.m., at their rooms I'oathcrston-alroot On that data under instructions from tho oxoculors 'in tho estate of tho late Mm. Franco* Bothuno, they will submit to miotioii the freehold proporty at tho corner' of Wollingtoptorraco and- Mount-stroot, having the extensive frontago* of 195 ft lOiu to Wcl-lington-torraco, 171 ft to Mount.»lroot, tiud losft bin to a six-foot Wght-of-way on tho north sido of tho properly. On tho land is sroctod a resiiknco of fourteen rooms with convrnienooe, No. 138, Tho lofrftcft, and formerly occupied by iho Itttt Mri. Bethunn The ttrounds nro luid out as gnrden, lawn, and orchard, Tho Eroporty is suitnble for subdivision into uiklmjjr allotment*. In tho enmo ostnte /rcoliold Town Aero No. 1091, Southroad, will aho bo offered. Tho land I m* a frontngo of l?«2ft to Houthroad by a depth of 330 ft Mews. Jlptlmno und Co inrwV an nmrniicd list of liueiii«M and roaidentiiil proportion which thoy liavo on thoir books for vale, nn<l lln.'y al»o havo n. numbor of housoi to I>H both furniflmd and unfurnished, ntao nionpy to lend. DON'T YOU JIELIIiVJ'] HIM When he (ells you thnt nomo other remedy is "just as good" as Tonkiny's Liusucd Kmulsiou for your dies I and cough, JIo innkee more profit on the "other lowedy' —don't you ?co? Spo that you get Tonking's liinscod Bmuhion, and take nothing cleo. Absolutely tho very best remedy for I coughs and colds. Sold overywtfbre, Is 6d,