PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1905, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. A. It. Hislop leaves Wellington to-day on a month's visit to Austiulia. Inspector Ellison was a passenger by the Pateena, which arrived from Nelson and Picton this morning. Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, arrived in Wellington last night from llotorua, where hq had been on a visit for the benefit of his health. Captain Robb, of the' signal station, is nt piosent in a. private hospital, where ho is about to undergo an operation for tumour. The Roy. G. Bond, Pastor of tho Trinity Wesley Church, Newtown, who has been dangerously ill, is much impioved in health. Among the passengers for Sydney by thb h.s. Wimmera to-day will be Mr, and Mrs. L. Dwan, who are to visit Australia on a holiday trip. The Verytßev. Father Marion, Provincial of the Marist Order in Oceania, and the Rev. Father de Fineaux, Parish Priest of Noumea, will leave Wellington 'for Sydney by the Wimmera this afternoon. The Pi-tone Navals have elected Lieut. " Freeman (who joined tho corps early this year) to the position of captain rendered vacant by the transfer of Captain Archibald to Auckland. Dr. Pigeon, Stipendiary Magistrate and Government Medical Officer at the Chathams, formerly surgeon of the Pacific cable steamer Iris, and Mrs. Pigeon, are at present in Wellington. The Rev. Father Ainsworth, of St. Ann's, Wellington South, is on a visit to Sydney for tho benefit of his health. He will be away for about two months. The Rev. Father Moloney is at present in charge of tho parish. Mr. J. Barry, of the commercial staff of Ihe New Zealand Times, e-as received an appointment on the MarlUorough Express, Last night Mr. Barry roaeivod vokens from the various dep%.Ttmenta of tho 'New Zealand Times Coiri-pany. Messrs. W. H. Field, X, M. Bell, M C. Barnett, C. P. Skenetfc, and C. J. Cooper have been elected life active members of the Star Boating Club, each having completed 20 years' membership. Dr. Collins and Mr. W. Barton have been elected life honorary members of the club. The , Star Boating Club is about to lose one of its most energetic members, Mr. W. E. Bendall, who will leave for Palmerston North on Thursday to take up the duties of Secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Unibn. The members of the club intend to make him a presentation. Mr. George Lambie, for seventeen years manager of the Union Steamship Company at Christchurch, was, on the occasion of his retirement, presented at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce with a purse of sovereign!?. Eulogistic references were made to the work done by Mr. Lambie, who left by the Wimmera to-day for Sydney. ; Mr. J. B. Mack, who has been a resident of Wellington for a number of years, and who is on the Customs staff, has been transferred to Dunedin, for which city he leaves this evening. Miss Nellie Mack, who leaves Wellington with her parents, was presented with a number of souvenirs by employees of the D.1.C., on the stiff of which she ha<i served for some time. COMING LAND SALES. Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co. di rect attention to their advertisements inserted to-day in our auction columns. On Thursday next, at their Exchange Land Mart, at 2 o'clock, they will submit a cottage, Thorndon-quay, close to Davis-street. Also on the same day, under instruction!) from Mr. Umverrecht, his farm property situate at Wninui-o-mata. A cottage residence of four rooms and other outbuildings aro erected .upon the property. Tbs> sale by auction on tho 6th September, at 2 o'clock, at the firm's Exchange- Land Mart, of tho John F. Orr estate, Johnsonyille, and othor properties being sold under instructions from tho Public Trustee, in notified. The lots to be sold comprise, al Johnsonville, tho family residence tormerh occupied by tho late Mr. John |\ Orr containing ten rooms, etc, large green house, dairy, stable, etc,,' with the grounds containing over one aore_, well laid out family residence, containing nine rooms etc., at present in the occupation of Mrs J. F. Orr, with land one acre, laid out ii lawn, and ornamental garden; two veran dah residences, containing five roonw each, with scullery and bathroom, buili nine months ago, and a cottage- residcnoi situate on the Main-road, adjoining the Johnsonville Town Hall. Adjoining tlu. above properties are fifty-seven buildinj; sections, which rango in area from about a quarter" of an acre to over four norc each, and close to tho railway station Thlj terms of sale are liberal. In th< above estate are two verandah residence situalo Upper \Villis-street, Nos. 15? am 159, containing six rooms each and convo niences, tho land hold under loaae for t term having somo 25 years to run a 1 ground rentals stated in the advertisement Lithographic plans of tho Johnsonvillo os tato soctions can be had on application, Under instructions from the Wellingtoi Steam Ferry Company, Ltd., Messrs. Mac donald, Wilson and Co. will submit U auction on Thursday evening, 12th Octo bor. at their Exchange Land Mart, sixtysix building sections forming portion ol the company's ostato at Day's Bay, and ranging in area from about an eighth ol an acre to over half an acre each, having frontages to tho Bay-road and Ferry-road. Iho terms of sale aro stated. Lithograph! t plans, with full dotails, can bo had on Implication. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PHESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 25th August. Very complete arrangements have been made to advertise the New Zealand International Exhibition throughout, the world. A copy of the official notice regarding tho Exhibition has been sent to every principal newspaper in the world, every merchant -and manufacturer in the world, and supplies of the same have been forwarded to the agencies of shipping companies, banks, and merchants in Japan, China, India, Ceylon, and Straits Settlements. Distributions in Canada and the United States is fully provided for, and supplies have been sent to nil British Consuls in foreign ports. The illuminated proclamation regarding tho Exhibition it expected to be ready about the end ol September, and will bo circulated all ovei the world, but not bo widely as the official notice. The Inspector-General of School? hat infoimed the Home Industries Committet of the Exhibition that tho Education De partment is prepared to provide an ex hibit which shall bo representative of tin recent educational methods, particularly the work of manual and technical classes TROUBLE ON A STEAMER. [BT TELKQ&AFH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, 25th August. The Papanui, which loft for Wellington last night, returned to the anchorage owing to trouble with the firemen. l One oi the men was put in irons for insubordination and assaulting an officer, when tht others refused duty unless the man \vai released, end their request not being acceded to, the steamer had to remain iv port. At the Police Court to-day two of the men were brought up and sentenced to'4B hours' imprisonment. Tho Papanui resumed her passage to-nighW