PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 59, 7 September 1905, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

♦ Mr. Thos. Tanner ha 6 been re-elected chairman of the Hawkes Bay Education Board. Archbishop Redwood and ti© Rev. Fathers M'Kenna and Goggan -were passengers by the Pateena, which arrived hum Nehoii and Picton to-day. Mr. Caddigan, of Johannesburg, South Africa, is at present touring New Zealand, and lias lately been in Wellington. He bus gone on to Rotorua, via the Wanganui River, under auspices of Cook's Tourist Office. Mrs. Halley, of Palmerston North, is also making the overland trip. Amongst recent visitors to New Zealand are Mr. and Mrs. E. Livermore, of Calcutta, India, who arrived here from Sydney yesterday. They go from Wellington to the Taranaki district, where they will sojourn until February of next year. They will then return to India. Owing to ill-health, Mr. Thos. Pcrhavn, A.M.1.C.E., the water conservation engineer of the Mines Department for tho past eight years, has been retired from the Public Service. During his connection with the Department Mr. Perham designed the Eweburn Dam, Otago, and ho reported on various irrigation schemes in Otsgo, and on the domestic supply of • water for several of the principal mining townships in the Ha^iraki Goldfields. In the early sixties he joined the service of the Canterbury Provincial Government, and was sent toHokitika, on the outbreak of the West Const goldßelds, with other Canterbury oflicials. He was afterwards for many years in the service of the General Government, and wat. on the staff of the Public Woiks and Marine Departments. Mr. Henry W. Turner, eldest son of Mr. Nicholas Turner, of the Central Mission, was married at the Turanakislrcet Methodist Church yesterday afternoon by the Rev. H. L. Bla.tnir.es, assisted by Mr. Turner, to Miss Annie Hildreth, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Hildroth. The bride was attended by Missco J. and N. Hildreth and Eva anJ Lucy Turner, and ■Messrs. N. and F. Turner assisted ithe bridegroom at -ths marriage service. The wedding breakfast, which was partaken of by soma 160 guests, was held in the Masonic Hall, and numerous toasts were proposed and responded to. In Il\e evening & social gathering was held, \mongst the many presents rcceivid was one given to th'a brido by Mr." Hildreth's employees, and the firm and et.iff of Messrs. H. O. Hewitt and Co. presented the bridegroom, who is attached to the firm's Mnsterton agency, with a Wmhcim. sowing machine, bearing a plate suitably inscribed.