PERSONAL MATTEES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTEES.

Captain Symons and Dr. Fyffe were omons^&t tho passengers from tho South by the Rotomahana this morning. Miss E. Bottom is temporarily in charge of the Convalescent Home during the absence of the Matron. Mi. Norman Roes, of the Bank of New Zealand Kaikoura's stall, -and his father, Mr. G. M. Ross, of Melbourne, ars at present visiting Groytown. Mrs. Dick, the district agent for Wellington under tho Infant Life Protection Act, has appointed Nursa Johnston visiting nurso for tho district. The Governor and Lady Plunket and family will leavo tho Manukau nsxt week on a cruise in the Tutanikai. The steamer is to leave for Onthunga on Saturday night. > A telegram of sympathy was sent by tho Congregational Union to-day to Rev. G. Ileighway, of Stratford, who was hastily summoned from the council meeting in consequsneo of 'serious illness in his fumily. Mr. A. H .Holmes, clerk of the Magistrate's Court, leaves for Picton, Blenheim, and the West Coast to-day to continue his inspection of the Magistrate's Courts in those districts. H© returns about the 22nr" mst. Mrs. Fred Townsend, ,with her son and three daughters, arrived in Wellington this morning from Sydney by tha s.s. Moeraki. Mrs. Townsend, who recently completed a tour of England and the Continent in company with Mr. Townsend, remained in Sydney for two weeks after Mr. Townsend left for Wellington. -Iho Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward ; left by train for Auckland this morning He ■« ill deliver a public address in Ai^. land City to-morrow night, and w,']f r «visequently visit various parts of tii'e provincial district, including WhangaTei, Dargavilk, Rotorua (where ho attends tho carnival), Hamilton, Kawhia, Thames, Waihi, Matamata, Kawakawa, and the Bay of Plenty district. The tour will occupy a period of about five weeks. A telegram from Hokitika states that the Rev. Father Aubrey, for some years in charge of that district, and now transferred to Wnimate, was entertained lasb night at a "social," which was well attended by all classes of tho community. The congregation preseneted him with an address and a substantial purse of sovereigns, while tho volunteer band and many other organisations also gave him handsome tokens of esteem. Mr. Matthew Paul, who has been appointed an Inspector of Miries for the North Island, at a^alary of £315 a year, graduated from the pit (says the Thames Stai). He is a member of the Thames School of Mines, and possesses a mine manager' first-clas certificate of competency. He occupied tho position of minemanager to the Kupranui-Caledonian Gold Mining Company ab Thames for many years. He is a son-in-law of Mr. James Coutts, who- recently resigned from the position as Inspector of Mines. It is piooablo that one inspector will attend to the coal and the other to the metal mining. Probably Mt. Boyd Bennie, the other inspector* of mines, will take over the inspection of coal, for he holds firstclass certificate for both branches of rain* ing.