PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, md Lady Stout, roturned from Christchurch yesterday. Professor and Mrs. Maclaurin arrived In Wellington by tho Mararoa, from Christchurch yesterday. Mr. 'E. Greatbatch, Postmaster at Petone, has returned from a visit to tho North with his health greatly improved. He resumed duty to-day. •A cable message from Sydney states that Sir Joseph and Lady Ward sailed by the Mongolia on Saturday on route lor England. A Press Association telegram from Chfistcburch announces the death of Ma. •P. Duncan, of tho firm of P. and D. * Duncan, implement makers, aged 68 years. Messrs. Ronanye, Coom, Beattie, and Burton, of the Railway Department, *ho have been inspecting the Otago «nd Canterbury railways, have returned fed Wellington. Archdeacon York vi Greymouth arrived from Dunedin yesterday on a brief visit to hi 3 uncle, Mr. John JPetrie, of Oriental Bay. Mrs. York b accompanying htr husband. " Cable advice has been received by the Minister for Education of the death of his father, Mr. Matthew Fowlds, aged 101, at Kilmarnock. Death was the re•ult of an accident, which caused a broken thigh. "Mr. G. D. Portus, manager for Messrs. J. and N. Tait, directors of the Besses o' th' Barn Band, arrived from the South yesterday, to prepare for the "Besses" season, opening at 4he To,wn Hall next Monday. > Mr. W. Donald, Inspector for Factories for Taranaki, has been appointed en Inspector of Factories for the whole ■colony. Hs will have headquarters in Wellington. Mr. Donald (according to *n exchange) vtill not assume his new duties for about two months. Tho Minister for Lands, the Hon. H. M'Nab, returned to' Wellington from Hawkcs Bay on Saturday, and left again for Taranaki this morning. On Wednesday oyening he will speak at Patea. The Minister for Labour (the Hon. J. 'A. Millar), the Attorney-General (the Hon, Dr. Findlay), and the Native Minister (Hqn. James Can-oill aiso returned •to Wellington on Sunday. 1 Mr. J. C. Williamson, the Well known director of theatrical ventures, loft Sydaoy on Saturday for Now Z-jvaad. A ipar of this colony has been fc tranced lor' Mr. Williamson by Mr. W.uo'd Ashton, vvho temporarily drops the ijiunagement of the Waldroa Hu-aph"ey Dramatic Company in order to personally conduct Mr. Williamson through the colony. The Sonth will be fust visited, and the tour will end at Auckland. _It is many years since Mr. Williamson paid a visit to New Zea'.xnl *nd then he was the star actor of the ''Struck Oil" Company. During a seaion'in Wellington in March, 1882, Mr. Williamson and his company played "Struck Oil." "The Snowball," "Kerry," and "The Chinese Question."