PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 10 August 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Bishop Lenihan,. of Auckland, will arrive in Wellington from the North tonight, >and wiil remain here for several days. His Lordship will be the guest of ihe Rector of St. Patrick's College. Captain H. Dillner, of Wellington, who wok the Blackball steamer Dingadee to 'fokohanw for delivery to her new owners, is returning to New Zealand via Hongkong, Manilla, and Sydney. He is apected back here this month. Mr. C. E. Stevens, who has severed >jtis connection with the Land Transfer Department in order to take a position on Messrs. Young and Tripe's staff, was presented yesterday afternoon with a case >f silver-ware' as a mark of the esteem "in which he is held by the officers of vhe Department. Mr. John Macdonald, a member of the SLent-terrace Presbyterian Church Choir, piper to the Highland Rifles, and an •nthusisstic Association football player, eaves to-day for Dunedin, where he will jo into business for himself. "He re:eived presentations from the staff of Messrs. John Butler, Ltd., with which inn he was employed for several years, from the Kent-terrace Choir, and from Jhe Swifts Football Club. Mr. A. J. Wicks, of Wellington, Chief Secretary in New Zealand of .the Trinity CJollege of Music, received intimation by the Brindisi mail on Tuesday that Lord Plunket had been elected a Vice-Presi-dent of the institution subject to his acceptance. This morning Mr. J. G. W. Aitken (Chairman of the Local Centre) *nd Mr. Wicks interviewed His Excellency on the -subject, and were informed by 'him that he had much pleasure in, accepting the office. After a lengthy absence, Mr. John Prouse, Wellington's well-known baritone singer, returned to Wellington from England last night, accompanied by Mrs. PVoUse and their son and daughter, Mr. George and Miss Constance Prouse. Mr. Prouse reports that he received many musical engagements at Home, •wld, after a tour of fifteen concerts with Kubelik, the famous violinist, the latter offered Mr. Prouse another engagement for a tour which is to begin in November next. He is to decide within a few days whether he will sev.sr his business connection with Wellington, md take up the many engagements offering in London, find devote himself entirely to the musical profession. Mr. Prouse had the distinction offered to him whilst in London of singing eight songs for phonographic records for the American Graphophone Co. News has been received in Wellington, of the death, in the Transvaal, on the 4th instant, of Mr. J. W. Blackett, C.E., formerly of this city. The deceased, who was the second son of the Lite Mr. John Blackett, Engineer-in-Chief of New Zealand, was a native of the colony. He was a cadet m the Public Works Department in the seventies, and for many years was 'engaged in carrying out the' surveys and construction of railways in this colony. Mr. Blackett was in later years engaged in the exploration and construction of the MombasaLake • Victoria Railway, East Africa, where his experience and skill in the exploration and location of railway lines in an entirely new and. unknown country were greatly appreciated. Subsequetly and at the time of his death Mr. Blackett was engaged on railway work between Johannesburg' and the coast. He* was unmarried.