PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Major Humo arrived from the South this morning by the Rotomahana. The Native Minister (Hon. J. Carroll) returned from the East Coast yesterday. Mr. R. Bragato, Government Viticulturist, has left for the South. The Acting-Premier (Hon. W. HallJones) will leave for Christcburch this evening. The Minister for Marine (Hon. J. A. Millar) is expected back from tho South tOTmorrow morning. The Hon. C. H. Mills was a passenger ffoin the South this morning by the Rotomahana. Dr. Websteir will leave Wellington next week for an extended trip to the Old Country. Messrs A. M'TCee and J. Bridge (of Wellington) leave on Saturday on a trip to the Old Country. Captain John Alacdonald, one of the best-known sailors of the early days, died at the Bluff yesterday, aged 78 years. Deceased^ was" signal master at the Bluff under the Provincial Government. Madame Blanche Arral is to be welcomed by the Wellington committee interested in the matter at a recepti >n at the Town Hall (Concert Charabar), between 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. tomorrow. The death is announced at Island Bay laet night of Mr. William Hume, an old and well-known Wellington identity, at the ripe age of seventy-five years. Mr. Hume arrived in Wellington from the Old Country some thirty-two years ago, and within eighteen months or so of his aTrivul he started business in Willis- j street; as a general provision merchant} opening his store in the old Independent offices, on the- present-cite of the Evening Post prismises. About eighteen years ago j he shifted a. few doors higher up Willisstreet to hie present building. He had been ailing for the past twelve months, but was able to give personal attention to his business up to Saturday last. Mr. Hume leaves one son. The interment which will he private, takes place tomorrow. Mr. John Tinline, whose death, at Nelson, was announced on Tuesday, was born in Scotland in 1821, and settled in Wellington as a storekeeper, with the lato ilajor Dane, in 1840. Twu years later he established a business in Nelson, but the destruction by fire of the Wellington premises ruined the new venture. When Governor Fitzroy arrived in Nelson in 1844 he gave Mr. Tinline an official position, in which he remained for eight years, when he took up sheepfarming, becoming the owner of several large runs in Marlborough. His Wangapeka run was recently sold to the | Government. He took no part in politics, but asvery real interest in educational mattery in Nelson, and there are three scholarships bearing his name. Some years ago, when on a visit to his native place, Jedburgh, he presented that town with a public park Mr. Tinline was the first white man to travel from Nelson to Marlborough, in company with a native boy, and lie was almost the first white man to go from Wangranui to Wellington during the Maori troubles On behalf of the Government he bought from the natives the site of the town of Picton, and he was the only survivor of the original purchasers of land in the Wairau. His •surviving relatives are a sister and her son, who reside in South Australia, and a nephew and niece, who are in Great Britain. The popularity of the Rev. A. Thomson in Petone was attested last evening when a large and enthusiastic public meeting was held in the local Oddfellows' Hall to make him a prs sentation, and bid him farewell prior to his. departure for the Old' Country j i on Saturday next on a holiday trij. The Mayor (Mr. G. London) who presided, bore testimony to Mr, Thomson's earnest and self-sacrificing efforts to improve tho education of the community. There was not a better equipped school in the district than Pctone's, though there was serious lack of adequate accommodation. •It was mainly through the perseverance of Mr. Thomson that ths residents could boast of having a Technical School, and High School in their midst. His efforts were fully appreciated by residents who wished him an enjoyable well-earned holiday, end a safe return. During vthe evening Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.H.R., presented the guest of the evening with a purse of sovereigns publicly subscribed. Mr. Wilford mentioned, in referring to the good work which the recipient had done in the community, that he had been for 13 years chairman of the School Committee, and had also been chairman of the Technical School Board since its inception. The Revs. J. D. Russell, J. K. Elliott, and Messrs. Piper and Mothes, also spoke in similar strain. A capital concert programme was submitted, tho contributors being Misses Johnston, Hartley, Jones, and Pointon, and Messrs, Gray, Young, T. M. Wilford, F. A. Mason; Robertson, and F. Mason.