PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 147, 22 June 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

M^r Justice aud Mrs. Kdwards arrived yesterday, and aro staying ut the Hotel Cecil. Tho Minister v for Lands (Hon. T. Y. Duncan) returned from Palmcroton North last night. Sir George Clifford has been appointed to a. seat on the Board of Directors of the Now Zealand Shipping Company. An old resident in the colony, Mis. Puichaw, wife of the Rev. Dr. Purchas, died at Auckland yesterday inotning, aged 79 years. At Dunedin yesterctey the directors of the Union Steam Ship. Company presented Captain Carey with a handsome marble clock, on the occasion of his retirement from active service after 28 years in the company's employ. The Hon. G. M'Lean made tlio presentation. » Amongst the passengers who will arrive by the Mokoia from Sydney early this evening will bo tlio Rev. James Patcrson, who is returning from a holidny trip to America and 1 lie Old Country. Mr. Paterson's many friends will heartily welcome his return. Mr! and Mrs. L. Blundell and Miss Biundell, who havo been on v visit to Australia, also return by the same boat. Mr. H. A. Khkcnldio (son of Mr. John Kirkcaldie, Clumuum of the Wellington and Miuiawuiu Railway Company) was mairied at Wauganui to-day to Miss Kathleen Slubbs, daughter ofr Mr. A. Stubbs, Government Railway Inspector, formerly of Wellington. Tho bridcsniaidb were Miss Stubbs (si.ster of the bride) and Miss 0. Kirkcaldie (sister of the bridogroom). There was a large atteiulance at St. Patrick's Cliurch, Masterlon, yeSterday (tclfgrapJw our cvrrwpoiidviil}, when tho reception of three young Indies into the Brigidine Urdor took place. The candidates were : Misses L. I'ruinan, T. Shupter, and M. Cooke, who will b& known, w religion as Sister Mary Paul, Sister Mary Peter, and Sistw Mary (Janice. The celebrant wa« l'ltther Lewis, Vicar-General and xdmiutotrator of the Diocese ot Wellington, '