PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. W. C. Kensington, Under Secretary for Lands, will return from Napier tonight. Mr. H. Baillie, chief librarian of the Wellington Public Library, ie confined to his home by illness. Chief Judge Palmer of the Native Land Court has left Wellington to hold sittings of the Native Land Court in the King Country. Capt. ,G. ,G. Smitn, Royal Naval Registrar, will go to Lyttelton to-night in connection with tho enrolment of Royal Naval reservists. The Minister for Labour (Hon. J. A. Millar) will leave for Dunedin and InvCTcargill to-morrow night and will be away from Wellington for about a week. At the annual meeting of members of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday Mr. G. Knight was elected chairman for the ensuing twelve months. Mr. W. H. Qeorge, of Kelburne, will leave for Sydney by the Warrimoo tomorrow, en route for England. His iather, who lives at Worthing, near London, is seriously ill. Mr. Arthur St. Clair lias been appointed vice-captain of the Thorndon Amateur Swimming Club in succession to Mr. L. Aikens who resigned recently. Mr. D. Joslyn has been elected a member of the committee, and will also be one of the chab's delegates to the Wellington centre. A complimentary social io Mr. Poole, M.P., was held at Ponsonby last night, Tinder the auspices of the Auckland West branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation. TheTe was a good attendance including the Hon. 6. Fowlds, who made a brief speech eulogostic of Mr. Poole's services in Parliament. Capt. M'Beth, late of the Warrimoo, arrived from the South this morning with his wife and' eon, in order to tranship to the Mamari, sailing for Londan to-day. He is proceeding to Scotland in order to bring out the Union Company's new steamer Tofua, built for the South Pacific Islands trade. Dr. Cockayne, who left in the steamer Queen of the South for Kapiti Island yesterday wfth the birds caught at the sub-Antarctic islands, was accompanied by Captain Dorrien-Smith, who was also a member of the recent scientific expedition. Captain Smith, who hails from the Scilly 'Isles, is an ardent naturalist, and is studying the plant life of this country. The Wellington College Governors today decided to appoint Miss V. L. Dall, to the vacancj for a junior assistant mistress at t^s Wellington Girls' College. Miss Dall Is a daughter of Mr. Dall, Inspector of Post Offices. At the present time she is an assistant at the Nelson Girls' College. She was trained at the Normal Training College, Dunedin, and has taught in various primary schools. Mr. H. Field, "who relinquished the secretaryship of the New Zealand Employers' Association two years ago to permanently take up his residence in England, returned to New,2lealand by the lonic yesterday. He contracted a serious illness while in the Old Land and was obliged to return to the Dominion for health reasons. It was twenty-eight years since Mr. Field first left England to try his fortune in this country and he speaks in high terms of the advances made there, both socially and industrially, in that period. Great changes, he said, aTe taking places in the political life of the country, and tho worker is coming more into recognition. While, however, the cotton mills are increasing in Lancashire and industries are springing up elsewhere there are still a great manj unemployed. " Mr. Martin Luman, formerly signalman at Beacon Hill and latterly of Mount .Victoria, died yesterday afternoon. During a severe storm about seven months ago, Mr. Luman was blown dowrj a bank at the signal station and sustained injuries from which he has succumbed at ■the residence of liis eon-in-law, Mr. Myers, Island Bay. Mr. Luman was one of the oldest of the Harbour Board's employees, having workud on its staff for some time before being appointed first signalman at the heads. In the early days he signalled the sailing vessels when, steamers wero few, many a time watching through the night so as to burn a blue light an answer to the ship's signal for a pilot. He arrived in New- Zealand in the early sixties and' after a short time spent in the coastal trade, particularly on the West Coast, he finally settled 'in Wellington, where he has remained up to the time of his death. He leaves a widow and three married daughters. Flags were flown at halfmast to-day out of respect to the memory of deceased.