PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1904, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

*- — Sir Joseph Ward will leave for the South to-night. The Chief Hemp Grader (Mr. C. J Fulton) left for the Bluff last night. Chief Detective M'Grath, who has been on a holiday trip, returned to Wellington from .the South this morning. Mrs. Wm. Luke and her daughter and son, Mr. S. Luke, returned to Wellington yesterday from a trip abroad. Prior to his departure on a trip to the Old Country, Mr. A. D. Willis, M.H.R., was entertained by the citizens of Wanganui, and presented with a pair of binoculars as a mark of their esteem. His employees also made him a presentation. Mr. W. R. Hackworth, who served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Cederholm and Tolley, of Wellington, has joined the Corinthic for the Home trip as electrical engineer. Mr. Hackworth is a member of the Star Boating Club, and was a sergeant in the Wellington Guards. The Corinthio leaves this evening. The following are gazetted officiating ministers under the Marriage Act: — Church of England, Rev. P. Cleary and Rev. H. A. Favell; Roman Catholic Church, Rev. J. Cahill, Rev. F. J. Dignan, Rev. D M'Millan, Rev W. H. Mahoney ; Baptist Church, Rev E. A. Kirk- \» ood. Mr. Walter Miller, of the Agricultural Department, is again suffering from the effects of the severe injuries which he received in the Bothasberg engagement when a member of the Seventh Contingent. He has been admitted to the Hastings Hospital for the purpose of undergoing another operation. Messrs. E. Trevor Gould (Resident Sco retary), J. M Thompson (Inspector), and E. Atinore and J. Schwartz (agents' representatives), of the Equitable Life Assurance Company of. the United States, whe have been attending a conference of the company's officials at Sydney, returned to Wellington by the Waikare yesterday. Mr. Samuel A. Anderson, who is leaving Wellington for London by the Corinthio this evening, has spent four years in the colonies. He is a son of Mr. J. H. Anderson, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Messrs. Anderson, Ltd., rubber manufacturers, of London. Mr. J. H. Anderson is the free trade candidate for the Medway division of Kent in the House of Commons. The death is announced of Mrs. Hol» ley, wife of Mr. W. Holley, Leeston, Canterbury, and mother of the Rev. Father Holley, of Wellington. The deceased lady, who had been in poor health for some time, only arrived in Wellington a few days ago on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. 0. M'Manaway. Soon after her arrival she became worse, and passed away yesterday afternoon. Deceased, who was 73 years of age, settled in Invercargill forty-one- years ago, and for the last twenty years has. been living at Leeston. Mr. George Winder, of Cuba-street, who has just returned from a trip to the Old Country and the Continent of Eurare in company with Mrs. and Miss Wi tier, is • very much impressed with tho business methods of the Germans, particularly in regard to their use ol 13 hour-saving machinery. While in Germany he investigated tho process of manufacturing bricks from lime and sand, of which several buildings in that country have been construct ed.~ The industrial classes are, ho said, contented, but the Germans do not like the preferential tariff, and aro lowering' their prices to those of the colonies which have adopted preferential tariffs. Mr. Winder did not think the Agent-General's office in London was much good to the colony. It appeared to be too far from the centre. Ho does not think, also, that ' New Zealand is sufficiently advertised at Hornet ' /