PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 23 August 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. Justico Donnislon, tho Hon. J. Holmes, and tho Rev. Dr. Erwm came up from tho South this morning. CitpUin Kust, Marine Superintendent of tho Tywsr Line, was a patt>ung<:r from tho South this morning by tho Tnkapuna. Mr. Maurico Denniston is , making a satisfactory recovery from tho accidont which ho sustained a few weeks biick. Mrs. A. Il'.I I . Donne wan p« evented from .tinging at the Garrison Bands concert last evening owing to an attack of influenza. Mr. S. Luke has been elected Chairman of the Auckland Education Board. Ho Qias been a. member of tho Board for 26 years. Mr. D. J. Bc\>s, Inspector for tho New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, is on a vwit to Wellington. He arrived from tho North la.st night. A Press Association telegram fiom llokitika states that the death is announced of Mrs. Cross, relict of the late Mr. John Cross, of Westland. Mossrs. W. G. Ardley, of Sydney, who arrived fiom tho North last night, Frcdk. Soddig, of Glasgow, and 11. Clement Newton, of Melbourne, are staying at tho Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. Stietton, one of tho Now Zealand surveyors who went to the Gold Coast about two years ngo under cn^dgt'incnt with the Imperial Government, has beon invalided to this colony. Mr. Ernest Fitts, the well-known baritone singer, has suffered bereavement through tho death of his wife. Mrs. Fitts was better known under her nom-de-theatre of Miss Marie Mr. J. G. Scott, accountant in the Batik of New Zealand at Auckland, died suddenly from heart failure this morning. The deceased had (says a Press Association telegram) been t\\ enty-six years in the service of tho bank. Word was received in town to-day of the death at Dunedin of Mrs. James M'Lean, wife of Mr. J. M'Lcan, eldest brother of the Hon. George M'Lean, M.L.C. The deceased spent most of her lifu in Cuba, leaving there when the in- | eurrection broke out. She leaves two ' sons — Mr. Frank M'Lean, of tlie Government Railways engineering department, and Mr. Georgo M'Lean, farmer, of Dunedin. Mr. Th'os. Tumbull attorns bis eightieth year,to-day, and finds himself still enjoying a measure of good health. The recent aeismic disturbances revived his interest in the question of earthquake-proof build- > ing construction, in which he took a very prominent part in the early days of San Francisco. Ho was one of the first to realise that proper construction would make brick and stone buildings earth-quake-proof. Hi 3 writings, on this ©übjeot, nublishcd in the " Transactions " of I the Now Zealand Institute, lnnko very interesting reading in tho light )of rccont | oventa. Recently Mr. J. F. Welch, eldest son of Mr. J. S. Welch, of tho Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, was married at Avlesbury, Buckinghamshire, to MU» Edith Solomon, only surviving < daughter of the Into Mr. and Mrs. Edward Solomon, of Osborne Villa, St. 2\eots, , Huntingdonshire. The young couple are at present in Sydney, but purpose coming across to Now Zealand next month, as Mr. Welch is to act as the representative in the colony of an I electrical company, which will probably [ make its headquarters at Chrislchuroh. lie underwent his initial training in electrical engineering at tho works of the Electrical Syndicate in Wellington, whoro he is well known.