PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. G. G. Stead arrived by the Maori from the South this morning. Mr. B. Fuller arrived in Now Plymouth from Onehunga this morning, on his way back to Wellington. Mr. John Duthic is due in Sydney to-day from Japan, and is expected, to arrive hero on .Sunday or Monday by tho Talune. Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., and Mrs. M'Arthirr left by the express train this morning for tho North. They intend visiting Rotorua during tho holidays. Mr. A. R. Guinness, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mrs. Guinness, who have been visiting Rotorua and Waitomo, left Auckland for Wellington yesterday. Tho Minister (Hon. J. Carroll) left for Wanganui this morning.' The Minister for Education (Hon. G. Fowlds) will leavo for Auckland on Saturday morning. From seven applications for the position of' Dredgeinaster, the Napier Harbour Board has appointed Capt. M'Alister, now in command of the Nora Niven, and formerly of Toroa, says a Press Association telegram. Dr. Neligan, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, has arrived in Wellington, on route) to England by the Tongnriro. He Wjill be accompanied by Mrs. Neligan and family. ■ Archdeacon Calder will aut as ttfb Bishop's Commissary during his ab6ehce. The Bishop will attend tho PanAnglican Conference to be held at Lambeth Palace. The death of Mr. Bayley was referred to at a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union last evening. The chairman, Mr. Dixon, in moving a vote of sjTnpathy^with the bereaved relatives spoke of the esteem in which deceased had been held by footballers the Dominion over. The motion was carried, the members standing. Mr. William Evans, who has man- • aged the Wellington branch of the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand for many years, is retiring at the end of the month, and Mr. H. G. Didsbury, chief officer at this branch, has been appointed his successor. Mr, Evans will Tetain his connection with tho company a3 local director . Mr. P. H. Putnam, solicitor, who has bsen attached to the staff of tho legal firm of Messrs. Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers for some time, has decided to commence the practice of his profession in Wellington on his own account. Mr. Putnam is a member of the Karon Borough Council, and is well known in musical, hockey, and tennis circles. Messrs*. 11. Gibb, of Southland, and W. B. Bray, of Christchurch, have been appointed by the Government inspectors uiider the Apiaries Act passed last session. Both have had a close connection with beekeeping. Mr. Gibb is secretary of the Southland. Beekeepers' Association. By profession he is a school teacher, but he is also an amateur beefarmer of considerable experience. Mr. Bray is a beekeeper, residing at ChristchuTch. It is intended that one of the inspectors will work in the North Island, and the other in the South.