PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. T. Y. Duncan, Minister for Lands, returned from the South this morning by the Rotomahana. The Government Biologist/ (Mr. T. W. , Kirk) left Auckland for Wellington yesterday. , Mr. W. H. Field, M.H.R., will open the spring show of the Levin Horticultural Society to-morrow. ' Mr. and Mrs. Clement Wragge intend leaving for London, by the Shaw-Savill steamer Corinthic, which is to sail from Wellington on the Bth December. Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington last night from Hawtres Bay. He will leave for the South to-morrow evening. Mr. James Colvin, M.H.R. for Buller, arrived from Christchurtfh this morning, and will go on to* the West Coast tonight. Miss Milsom, of the King's Chambers, who had been on A health-recruiting visit to Canterbury, returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr. J. H. O'Donnell, Secretary of the Hawkes Bay Land Board, has been appointed Receiver of . Land Revenue at Gisborne. Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., of Invercargill, is to act as one of the Stipendiary Magistrates in Auckland duruig the absence for six months of Mr. Kettle, who is unwell. Lady M'Connell, wife of Sir Robert John M'Connell, Lprd Mayor of Belfast, is at present visiting Rotorua, which she is milking the first stage of a pleasure trip through the colony. The latest appointment to the Magisterial Bench is that of Mr. R. W. Dyer,. District Land Registrar at Invercargill. He will probably succeed Mr. Blomfield at Auckland. The Very Rev De Berdt Hovell, Dean of Napier, arrived in Wellington last Evening. He 1 is to preach to-niglib at the service* of intercession for missions in the Pro-Cathedral 1 . The Hon. H. B. 0. St. John, of Bedford, England, and Mr. J. W^ Woodgate, of London, who are to make an extended tour through New, Zealand, are at present in Wellington. There are staying at the Wellington Club. At the adjourned meeting of the New Zealand Snipping Company, held at ~T?Lristchurch yesterday, Messrs. C. C. Bcwen, G. Gould, and A. E. G. Rhodes were elected directors, <and Messrs. W. J. Moore and A. A. M'Kellar auditors. Mr. Bell, assistant lecturer on geology at Harvard University, has accepted the position of Government Geologist in New Zealand, and will leave America on his way to the colony about the middle of January. Mr. J. Barber, the well-known representative footballdr and cricketer, who J is leaving the Petone Railway Workshops to take up farming, Was made a handsome presentation by his fellowworkers yesterday. Mr. W. Fitzgerald j officiated as spokesman. Mr. Ansin, first assistant keeper at I Kahurangi Point Lighthouse, has been transferred to Farewell Spit, and Mr. Champion, late of the Kaipara light, has gone to Kaiuirangi Point. Mr. Farrer, second assistant at Kahurangi Point, has retired from the service, and his place is to be filled by Mr. Partridge, of Farewell Spit. A well-known colonist, of over half a century standing, Mr. William Thomas Owen, died in the Wellington Hospital on Saturday, aged 73 years. He participated in the early gold rush in the Nelson district, giving up a chemist's business in Wellington for that purpose. Afterwards he went to Wanganui, and in course. <ti time became a sheepfarraer in partnership with Mr. G. Y. Lethbridge. Ultimately he purchased a property of his own at Wanganui, where he resided until he came to Wellington- for medical treatment. The funeral took place to-day.