PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. G. P. Hoskins, the treasurer for the Fuller Proprietary, and Mrs. Hoskins returned from Australia by the WimmeTu, to-day Mr. J. W. Macdonald, assistant solicitor to the Public Trust Office, is at present in tho Wairarapa on departmental business. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward' leaves Wellington for Auckland to-mor-row to be present at the banquet to Mr. A. Kidd, M.P. The Rev. Father K -ay, who has been on a trip round the w/orld in company with Mr. D. Hay, landed in Wellington this morning by tho Wimmera'. 'Mr. and Mrs. f'inlay M'Leod, accompanied by their two sons, arrived notne by the Wimmera to-day. They have been holiday-making in Australia. It is understood that Mr. F T. Moore, chairman of the Johnson ville Town Board, will be a candidate for the new suburbs seat at tho general election. Mr. Wm. White, of Sydney-streot, for many years connected with the Justice Department, is about to leave on a trip to the Old Country for the benefit of his health. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has nominated its president (Mr. Joseph Harkness) as its representative on tho Harbour Board. The present representative of the Chamber is Mr. G. Shirtcliffe. The Hon. R. M'Nab was to visit the Waerenga experimental station to-day, and will spend the night at Taumarunui. He intends to proceed on' along the route of the Main Trunk line through Raurimu and Taihape, Teaching Wellington on Saturday. Colonel J. S. Lyster, Commandant of the Queensland Defence Forces, who is on leave from his official duties, arrived in Wellington Lo-day. He will stay in New Zealand for a month, and during that time he will devote himself to trout fisning. The Hon. J. A. Millar will remain in Wellington until the middle of February, when he will go South on departmental business. He will visit Port Molyneux to decide how best the grant on the last estimates for removing the rocks there can be spent. A private letter received in Sydney (says a Press Association cable message) states that the late Mr. James C. Wilkin, of Christchurch, who died in Paris after a painful illness, was cremated. His remains are on the way to New Zealand for interment. The family sailed from Marseilles by the Mooltan on the 10th January. Mr., and Mrs. Louis Blnndell, with Mr. Leonard Blundell and Miss Coates, who have been on a trip connd the world, arrived back in Wellington by this morning's steamer from Sydney. All the party are in excellent health, and the accident which befel Mr. Louis Blundell in Payis has left no after effects. At the Dunedin sitting of the Arbitration Court, which commences on. Monday morning next, Mr. Wm. Pryor, deputy representative, will take his seat on the court as the employers' representative in place of Mr. S. Brown, who is at present on holidays in Australia. Next week's sittings will be the first occasion on which Mr. J. A. M'Gullough will take his seat as the workers' representative. The Rev. Dr. Erwin, of Knox Church, Christchurch, intends leaving in March on a visit to Great Britain, and will be a"bsent from the Dominion till November. This will be Dr. Erwin's first visit Home since he came to New Zealand, twenty-five years ago. During tho period mentioned, with the exception of a few "months spent in Auckland, Dr. Erwin has been in charge of Knox Church. A Press Association message from Gore announces the death of Mr. James Holms, proprietor of the Waimahaki Estate, Southland. Ho was a wellknown breeder of Hereford cattle and liomney sheep. Mr. Holmes was for a long time a member and director of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Deceased was also a prominent member of the Pine Bush Presbyterian Church. Mr. .Midgley Taylor, tho visiting English engineer, will confer with the Auckland Borough Council to-morrow night on the borough drainage question (states an Auckland telegram). Mr. Taylor has also accepted the invitation of the Napier Borough Council to report upon the Napier sewer outfall. 'He will leave Auckland on Friday, and will go down the Wanganui River en route to Napier. Afterwards he will vi&it the South Island, leaving in time to catch the Orontes at Melbourne on 25th February for England. The funeral of the late Mr Bernard Keating, who met his death through an accident at Kelburne on Saturday, was largely, attended yesterday. Prior to the cortege leaving for Karori Cemetery tho Rev. Father M'Donald conducted a service in St. Mary of the Angels Church, Boulcott-street, and afterwards read the burial service at the- graveside The mourners included Mr. H. Wardell and the wholo of Messrs. Wardell and Co.'s staff. Deceased, who waa very popular, was educated partly /in France, and at one time studied for (the priesthood, both at Home and at St. Patrick's College, Wellington; but had to give up his studies in favour of an outdoor lifo on account of his health. At a gathering in the Mayor's room in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon for the purposo of extending a welcome to Miss M'Lean, president of the local branch of the Y.W.C.A., who has just rotuned to Wellington after a trip to England, Mrs. T. W. Hislop spoke a few words of welcome, which were supplemented by speeches from Mr. J. G. W. Aitken, M.P., president of tho V.M.C.A., and Mr. H. N. Holmes, general secretary. Miss M'Lean, in returning thanks for the welcome, said it had given her great pleasure to notice tho rapid strides of the Wellington branch during her absence. At the conclusion of the meeting a resolution was carried thanking Mrs. M'Clay for the assistance she had rendered the association during Miss M'Lean's absence. In forwarding to the Bloard of Governors of Canterbury College the resignation by Mr. E. Kidson of his position of Demonstrator of Heat, Light, and Sound, Dr. C. C. Farr, tho 'kcturer at the college on the subjects, stated that Mr. Kidson had been offered an appointment finder tho Director of the Terrestrial Magnetism Department of the Carnegie Institution, Washington. Dr. Farr added : "Tho offer of this position is, I think, not only a compliment to Mr. Kidfon, but ono also to Canterbury College and to the University of Now Zealand, as the custom of the institution is to pick the most suitable man that can be found, reg.-ud-less of his nationality." It is understood that Mr. Kidson will be employed on magnetic and atmospheric electricity work for the institution, probably in Africa. Later he may be attached to tho new non-magnetic vessel that the institution is having built. The Board of Governors, in accepting Mr. Kidson's resignation, congratulated him upon his new appointment.

MeF«rs W. H. Moirah and Co. will sell by public auction in their rooms, WilliEstrcot, at 2 o'clock to-morrow, 600 rolk wall pifpcrj ancJ at 2.30 o'clock 85 pairs of ladies' and children's boots and shoes.