PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 93, 17 October 1906, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

' Mr. E. Clifton, Chief Inspector 6f Stock for the Auckland district, is at present in Wellington. Mr. W. AJloo, publisher of the New "iZcaland Bowlers' Annual, is on a visit fco Wellington. Mr. Edward Tingey, of the firm of Messrs. R. and E. _Tingey, of this city, Returned from, a trip to Europe by the Moeraki to-day. Mr. Thos.', Pringle, who has been on a visit to Great Britain, returned to Wellington by the Moeraki to-day, having .arrived in Sydney by the last steamer from Vancouver. t Mr. Ewen' Wm. Ailson, of Auckland, "Waa this morning sworn in as a member oi the Conciliation Board for the northers district before Mr. Justice Chapman. ' Dr. Clay has resigned the position of surgeon of the Otaki Hospital. Dr. Huthwaitej recently from England, has been appointed to the vacancy, but will not" take up the duties until he has heen registered in New Zealand. Mr. T. W. M'Keime, one of Wellington's earliest, settlers, yrfto has been tnrtrell for some weeks, has improved m .health during the past few days, and ttiHj H is hoped, be able to take , outdoor .exercise" next- week. ; Mr. W. D. Home, one of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand in -Wellington for some years, has been trans- 1 ferred to Dannevirke. His departure will be a locs to the Star Boating Club, of which he has been a prominent mem,Ber ftr a considerable time. Yesterday ' afternoon, Miss Grant, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Geo. Grant, of Dsnedin, waa married to Mr. Ihorick Gifford Palgrave, M.R.C.N.S., of the veterinary section of the Agrieulftuial Department. The ceremony, which was witnessed by only intimate * friehda, wa* performed by the Rev. Gibson Smith at the house of Mr. Malcolm Ross, the bride's brother-in-law. .AJr,, and Mrc. Palgrave left by the Manawatu train for their honeymoon. Those who are a little behind the txene* are much concerned (writes a London correspondent under date 7th Tieptember) with the health of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who has been seriously ill ' for some time past, and .Who has been obliged to remain in London during August in the exhausting liaat. His malady is gout, complicated •with general' weakness and a certain dejjree of heart trouble. His doctors are with him constantly, and both are kept in London, never beyond the reach of the telephone, for the great statesman's .weakness has been at timas most alarming. And Mr. Chamberlain does not 100k ' any thing like his 70 years. I was. very near him during the season at mere than one large function, and was (.truck by the grace of his figure, his Wonderfully erect carriage, and his keen eye. He is the best of listeners, and •Ujcd for quite two hon» talking to . this person and that, eager in replr, i and alert S6 any man of 40. The only •tlslicacy was' a certain pallor.