PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. D. D. Hyde, Chief Poultry Expert, left for Auckland this morning. Lieut. -Col. Hume, Inspector of Prisons, returned from Blenheim yesterday. Bishop Wallis returned to Wellington from Christchurch this morning. Lady Fawkes, wifo of Admiral Fawkes, will leave Wellington for Sydney to-mor-row. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) left Wellington for Auckland this morning. Mr. H. A. Parker, champion tennie player, leaves Wellington for Sydney tomorrow. Mr. Justice Chapman is expected to arrive from Dunedin by tho Marama tomorrow. Dr. Coleridge Farr and Professor Binham arrived in Wellington from Christchurch thic morning. Messrs. J. D. Ritchie and E. Clifton, of the Agricultural Department, will return to Wellington from the North on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hewett, of Pa-hner-ston North, who have been on a holiday trip to China and Japan, .returned to Wellington by yesterday's steamer from Sydney. Mr. W. M. Singleton, Acting Dairy Commissioner, has left Wellington to attend the annual meeting of the South Island Dairy Association at the Bluff to-morrow. A Press Association cable message received from Sydney this morning states that the Chief Commissioner of Railways (Mr. T. R. Johnson) haa sailed in the Mokoia on a visit to New Zealand. The death occurred at Mount Roskill, Auckland, yesterday of Rev A. M. Beattie, Presbyterian minister, aged 73. He laboured for many years in Canterbury province, principally at Ashburton. Dr. and Mrs. Thacker, of Christchurch, are amongst the passengers leaving for London by the Athonic. Their departure is somewhat huiried, and is due to the receipt of grave news concerning tho health of Mrs. Thacker's brother. At St. Luke's Church, Greytown, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Henry Rooks, of Mastorton, was married to Miss Annie Gray, daughter of Mr. H. L. Gray, of Greytown. Miss Lilia Gmy acted as bridesmaid, and Mr. H. A. Beckett as bast man. Mr. Gil. P. Hoskins, secretary to John Fuller and Sons, who ai rived from Sydney yesterday, leaves for Christchurch to-day to take over the management of the Opera House there for six weeks, during tho absence of Mr. Wal-< ter Fuller. Lady Stout entertained the members of tho Universjty Senate and many of their Wellington friends last evening. Mrs. T. W. Hislop gave a luncheon party to the ladies who arc visiting Wellington in connection with the senate yesterday. At a largo and representative meeting of Roman Catholics a,t Auckland last evening (says a Press Association message) an influential committee 'was appointed to make arrangements for the reception of Cardinal Moran, on the occasion of his approaching visit for the re-opsning of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Mrs. "H. M. Halliday, the English delegate from the central branch of the Mothers' Union to Australasia, is at present staying in Christchurch. During the past few days Mrs. Halliday has been visiting various branches of the union in Canterbury and later she intends to visit as many branches as possible in the Dominion. Sho has already been through the Australian Common wealth, and from New Zealand she will probably retu\-n_ Home, via Tasmania, Australia', 'and Ceylon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Frankis Lane, who arc leaving Wellington for Perth, West Australia, were entertained at tea by the Kelburnc Bowling Club yesterday. Mrs. T. W. Hislop (wife of tho Mayor), President of tho Ladies' Bowling "Club presented Mrs. Lane, with a beautiful jewelled pendant from' tho ladies of the club. Mr. J. P. Campbell, president of the Kelburne club, presented to Mr. Lane a .gold match box and sovereign case, as a token of the esteem in which he is held by members of the club. The death is reported from Auckland oi Captain Nearing, aged seventy-eight years. Duriug recent years the deceased had carried on a. Lu-ge business as a stevedore on the Queen-street Wharf, for which his long nautical experience well qualified him. But Captain Nearing's connection with the port of Auckland dates back to the sixties, when he was one' of the mo.st popular skippers of Headsrson and MacFarlane's Circular Saw line. As master of the barque Novelty ho made- many fast passages between Auckland and Sydney, and was famous for crowding on all the canvas his clipper craft could bear with safety. Miss O'Sullivan, who haa been cashier for the firm of Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co. for the past eight years, was, entertained last night at a social gathering of the firm's staff held at "Somerled," the residence of Mrs. T. Kennedy Macdouald. The occasion was the approaching marriage of Miss O'Sullivan to Mr. Moran. Advantage was taken of the gathering to piesent the guest with a cheque from the firm, a s.alad bowl from the staff, and two handsome entree dishes from Mts. Macdonald. The presentations were made by the Hon. T. Kennedy Macdonald, and tho £QO,r relations Existing between the firm and its employees were pleasantly demonstrated during the evening. Mr. Edward Kidson, news of whose appointment to the position of Magnet Observer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, was published yesterday, informed a Press reporter that Captain Peters, of the Galilee, had advised him that his work would probably be a magnetic survey of the Pacific islands. His appointment begins on Ist March, and he is i to bo available for magnetic work on sea or on land, but on land only during 1908, The cruise of the Galilee would be over in about three months, and the Carnegie institution was building an absolutely non-magnetic ship. There was still work to be done in the South Sea Islands, Africa, Alaska, South America, and Mexico.