PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. W. Reid has been elected pre- . Palmorston North, ■ mg Club. Tho long service and good conduct I medal has been awarded to Sergt-Arti- ! ficer Wm. Rowe, R.N.Z.A. The Hons. G. M'Lean, H. F. Wigram, and J. Anstey wer-e passenger for tho South by the Mararoa last night. Captain Richardson, of tho Defence Department, arrived by tho Kotomithana from Lyttelton this morning. Mr. Maughnn Barnett, who has been indisposed tor about two weeks, has not yet recovered sufficiently to bo able to leave his house. Ths Hon. J. A.. Millar, Minister for Labfeur, returned 'this morning from Dunedin, where he had been attending Dominion celebrations. , Mr. F. R] Price, of the Te.legraph staff at Palmerston North has been transferred to Wellington, telegraphs our local correspondent. Miss R. Coopsr of Wadestown, and Mr. Sutton, of Masterton have been granted by the Education Board two months' leave of absence on full pay. Advice from Oamaru reports the death yesterday of Mrs. A. E. Jones, mother •of the. Hon. G. Jones, in her eightysixth year. Mrs. Jones came to New Zealand with her husband sixty years ago. By tho steamer Na'irnshire there arrived at Auckland yesterday Mr. Ben Tillett, the prominent English Labour leader, and one of the chief organisers of the gr«at association of dock labourers in the Old Country, Mr. Tillett, who visited New Zealand about ten years ago, has' come out to the Dominion again for the benefit of his health, and incidentally to enquire into the social conditions of our people. Lieut Herd, bandmaster of the- Wellington Garrison band, leaves for the South, probably next Saturday, to judge ths Canterbury Bands' Association contest at Ashburton. Early in November he is to judge a contest at the Thames. The resignations of Miss M. E. Coulter, pupil teacher at Mount Cook Boys' Sshool, and Miss E. M. Hind, pupi' teacher at South Wellington, have been accepted by tho Education Board.