PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. John Rigg, M.L.C., has returned to town after a month's absence. ilr. H. C. Jones has resigned ths position of President or tho Wellington Typographical Union. I Tha Under-Sscretary for Lands (Mr. W. C. Kensington) left for Invercargill last night. Ho will be away for about a week. Mr. Colin Gilray, Dunedin, the New Zealand Rhodes' Scholar for 1907, has j chosxi Bailiol Collage. He will leave for England in August. -.li. David M'Laren, secretary of the j Now Zealand Waterside Workers' Fedelation, leaves for Lyttelton this ovening. ] He L- to confer 'with tho local waterside •workers, and transact business in connection -with the federation. Mr. Harry Riley, who is severing his cor nection with tho New Zealand Insurance Company, was presented with a icernonto by the members of the local staff of the company. Mr. Riley leaves on Monday to join a survey camp in the Taupo district. Mr. J. Inglis Wright, of Dunedin, has been elected a member of the Incorporated Society of Advertising Agents, a British organisation. Mr. Wright is said to bo tho first Australasian upon whom ths compliment of membership has bsea conferred by £he society. Aa old resident of Wellington in ths person of Mrs. Sarah France, widow of tLe late George France, died at her home in Webb-street to-day. Deceased was sixty-Seven yea:\3 of age. and came to WeJlington by tho ship Hurunui, thirtythrea years ago. Siie had resided in Wellington ever since. The Rev. Robt. Inglis, M.A., who is to be inducted as minister of the Presbyterian Church of Onslow next Tuesday evening, baa arrived from Xowra, New South Wales, whers he has been minister for over nine yeais. The Sydney Morning Herald records that at a "farewell gathering in Ncwra Mr. Inglis was presented with a pnrce of sovereigns on beh?lf oi the congregation. Mr. C. Quilkey, junior, prcssnt-cd a souvenir from the Young Men's Institute, which the deparfc- , ing minister had founded. All tho presbytors of ths Illawarra Presbytery excepting oof who was absent through illhealth, were present, and epoke of the successful work done by the Rev. Mr. Idelis. Sirs. luglis and daughters received gifts frcm various organisations. The Rev. Arthur Dewdney, formerly pastor of tho Wanganai Baptist Church, has accepted a call to the pastorate ol the Oh:ro-road B?ptisl Church, Brooklyn, and trill enter upon hi? duties to-morrow. Tho Rev. Dewdney is well known in ecclesiastical ci.cles, haying held the pastorate cif various Baptist Churches throughout New Zealand, and his advent to Wellington will be appreciated by all churchgoers. A welcome "social" is to be tendered him on Thursday next, 6th June, at the Ohiro-road Baptist Church. Brooklyn. Mr. Dewdney, who laboured ■ in Wanganni for six years, was the guest at a farewell function held in that town last Thursday. Ha had taken a very prominent part in the social, temperance, and educational movements in Wanganui. 3lr. V. J. Bro-raL-, principal dark, staff division, General Post Office, has retired from the service on tho ground of illhealth. Mr. Btojoe, who is a native of Wellington, joined tho service over thirty-two veers ago, when he entered the Crown Linds Department, vhich was then located at the lowc-r end of Moles-worth-street. In 1878 — thre« years later — ho was transferred to tho Telegraph Department, and after the amalgamation in IBi-l he was attacked to the head office of the postal branch, and has been connected with it ever iincc. For some .time past Mr. Bro^an has been in iudilisr-sat health, and although still a 3"oung men ,'has at leasfth foand itjiccea>aTy to retire. He has always been a popular number of the service, and his many friends will ■wish him a speedy return to health.