PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. Jas. and Mita Lockie will leave Wellington in March next on a tour of the world. Mr. H. W. Robinson, formerly S.M. at Nelson and Wellington, who has been seriously ill, is now on the road to re■covery. The Bishop of Nelson has gone to Christchurch to take part in the consecration of the Cathedral on the Ist November. Mr. VV. A. Kennedy, local manager of the Union Company, left Sydney by the Waikare on Saturday on his return to Wellington. Mr. W. J. Bardsley, Secretary and Treasurer of the Timaru Harbour Board, is at present in Wellington in connection witn a Bill before Parliament affecting his Board. Dr. M'Brearty, of Greymouth, who has been on a visit to the Old Country, returned by the Paparoa on Saturday, accompanied by Miss M'Brearty, of Glasgow. The following visitors to the colony are staying at the Royal Oak "Hotel : Messrs. D. H. Gordon, of Belfast; G. L. Dobbin, of Canada; Geo. J. Low, of Indianapolis (U.S.A.); and J. Bradley, of London. Mr. 0. Miller, a well-known resident of Petone, formerly employed in the Petone Woollen Mills, and latterly in the Government service, nas been appointed manager of the Onehunga Woollen Mills. He leaves at the end of the week. Mr. Henry Eglinton, another of Wellington's early settlers, died this morning at his residence in Oriental Bay after a long illness. He came out from England with his parents in January, 1841, when he was onlj three years of age. His father (Mr. Benjamin Eglinton) became Clerk of Court in Wellington, and held the position until his death, which occurred some years ago Mr. xienry Eglinton was brought up as a farmer, and was for a- great many years one of the leading settlers at the Hutt. He also possessed a sheep run in Palliser Bay. The deceased, who was held in very great respect, has left a family of four sobs and four daughters. By the Paparoa, which arrived in Wellington on Saturday evening, there returned from England Mr. Alfred Saunders, . who was formerly a member of the House of Representatives for the Selwyn electorate. Mr. Saunders had, before he left this colony some years ago, earned the title of the Nestor of New Zealand politics, and he is now 85 years of age. In spite of the years that he has left behind him, Mr. Saunders is well and strong, and ia as intellectually active as ever. It is said to be his intention to write a political history embodying his experiences and observations. Mr. Saunders, who intends to remain in New Zealand, sailed again on Saturday evening, en route for Canterbury. One of his sons is Mr. S. Saunders, editor of tlie Lyttelton Times.