PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. Justice Cooper has returned from Auckland. Mr. Jaques, the jGovernraent Fruit Canning Expert, left for Idotueka yesterday. Mr. Leo. Buckeridge has just returned from Nelson, where he gave a successful recital. Mr. W. Hobbs, who v has been on a visit, to Auckland, returned to Wellington last night. His Honour Mr. Justice Cooper will take the next sittings of the Supreme Court at Wanganui. Brigadier Albiston and Major Dutton, of the Salvation Army, returned yesterday from a visit to N.apier. The medical health officer for the Maoris, Dr. Pomare, has left on an official visit to the Chatham Islands. The Chief Justice will leave for Napior on Thursday by the Zealandia to resume Native Land Commission work. Mr. F Milner, M.A., Rector of Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru, is at present on a holiday visit to Wellington, • Mr. and Mrs. W. Clifford, of Johnsonville, intend leaving ofl a holiday trip\ to the Old) Country by tho Corinthic, sailing from Wellington on the 27th inst. According to tho Dunedin 'Star, Mr. George Fenwiek lias joined the directorate of the Lyttelton ,Times, of which Mr. j F. Hyman has been appointed manager in place of the late Mr. J. C. Wilkin. Messrs. Ronayne, Burton, Beattie, and Burnett, of the Railway Department, who have been inspecting the Westland railways, Teturned to Wellington this morn- j ing via Lj tsltoh. ' The marriage of the Rev, A. B. ChapEell and Miss M. E. M'Kinney was celerated last week at the New Brighton Methodist Church, by the Revs. H. R. Dewsbury and W. A. Sinclair. Mr. William Daws, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., will arrive in Wellington to-morrow from the South. The Rev. L. M. Isilt, Capt. Richardson (Defence Department), Dean Regnault, the Very Rev. Father Le Meuant dcs Cheenais, and the Rev. Mr. Hoare were passengers from the South by the Maori this morning. The general secretary of the ,New Zealand Alliance (Rev. F. W. Isitt) went to Blenheim yesterday. He will return to Wellington to-morrow, and go on to Auckland, in which' district he will spend six weeks in connection with Alliance business. Mr. J. B. Hislop, manager of the rent, house, and letting department of Messrs. Harcouit and Co., was yesterday, on tho eve of his marriage, presented with a; cheque by Mr. J. B. Harcourt, on behalf of the firm, and with a liqueur stand by Mr. T. Marsden on behalf of the ofhee staff. A Dargaville Press Association telegram states that Dr. Eleanor Southey Baker commenced duty v on Saturday as locum tenens for the medica) superintendent at Northern Wairoa Hospital. She is believed to bo the first lady doctor to occupy such a position in the Dominion. Mr. J. J. Hay, resident engineer of the Public Works Department at Nelson, has been granted .twelve months' leave of absenco in order that he may visit Europe and America for the benefit of hi 3 healtn. During his absence his duties at Nelson will be discharged by Mr. S. J. Harding, who has for some time past been assistant engineer at the southern end of the North Island Main Trunk Railway. To-day Mrs. Joseph /Bull and Mrs. Edward Bull, the' first' twins born in Wellington, celebrated their 65th birthday. They were born a year after the arrival of their parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dixon, in Wellington, in the ship London in ]842, and since then they have never been more than a month out of Wellington. That absence was on the occasion of a visit to their sister, Mrs. A. D. Willis, of Wanganui.

Judgment was entered for plaintiff by default of defendant in the following civil cases m the Magistrate's Court to-dny : — George A. Odling and Co. v. John Waterworfh, £23, costs £1 93 ; Wellington Traders' Agency v. Emily M. Sainsbury, £2 9s 7d, costs lls , Wellington Dtivern' Industrial Union of Workers v. Harry Moore, £10, costs PA 3s 6d ; Rosenberg 'and Co. v. William Hugh Long, £3 15s, coats ss; John Arthur M'lntosh, trading as Novelty Advertising Co., v. Evison and Lambert, £17 103, costs £1 10s 6d ; Kathleen Forbes and Alice Eliza Johnstone v. Annie E. Gardner, £3 4s, costs 14s ; Rosenberg, and Co. v. John Cook, £1 17s 6d, costs ss ; Frank Fanning v. John Stephen Pearson, £5, costs £1 0s 6d. — Judgment summonses: Chiule3 W. Martin v. Alexander Campbell, defendant ordered to pay on or before 18th I February, in default fourteen days' imI prisonment; Union Clothing Co. v. Jub. D. M'lntosh, £8 lls 6d, defendant ordered to pay on or before 18th February, or in default to undergo seven days' imprisonment. No orders wero made in tho following crises :— R. and E. Tingey v. William , M'Coll, a debt of £26 3s 6d ; Emma Florence Canner v. Sarah Rowberry, a debt of £9 2s.