PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. J. M. Hall has resigned his position as a Justice of a Peace. Mr. C. Hickson, Commissioner of Stamps, loft for the South yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. M. Eichelbaum have returned to Wellington after a trip to Rotorua. Dr. P. O. Andrew, of Nelson, accompanied by Mrs. Andrew, te at present in Wellington. Mr. J. G. Price (Church of Christ) is gazetted an officiating minister under tha Marriage Act. Herr Gustav Maier, of Switzerland, has returned to Wellington after a tour in some parts of the Southern Alps. The Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. Dinnie), left Wellington last night on a departmental visit to Canterbury and Otago. The Chief Health Officer, Dr. Mason, leaves Wellington on Monday nest on an official visit to Picton, Nelson, and the Wo6t Coast. Mrs. M'Alister, was yesterday appointed delegate for Wellington to the Women's Christian Temperance Union convention to be held at Auckland. Mr. F. K. De Castro, Chief Clerk of the Education Department, who went to Auckland to attend the native school teachers' conference, returned to Wellington 'ast night. Rev. John Wilkins, who has been minister of the Beresford-streot, Auckland, Congregational Church, is leaving for England in the lonic, to take up his residence thero. Mr. O'Donnell, sub-receiver of land revenue at Gisborne, has been appointed receiver at Napier, vice Mr. Bull, retired ; and Mr. H. Robinson, oi the Auckland office, is to succeed Mr. O'Donnell at Gisborne. Mr. J. P. Cochran, secretary of the Sydney Trades and Lahour Council, visited the meeting of the local Trades Council last night. In responding to a welcome from the chairman, Mr. Cochran took the opportunity to thank the unions of Wellington for their splendid assistance to the Sydney coallumpers. Tho Magistrate (Jlr. Cruickshank) appointed to the Invercargill Bench was welcomed by. the Bar. The president of tho Law Society (Mr. Hall) and Mr. T. M. Macdonald (Crown Prosecutor) spoke on behalf of the profession, which was largely represented. Mr. Scandrett, the Mayor, on behalf of the justices of the peace, also welcomed Air. Cruickshank. Mr. W. R. Guilfoyle, Director of the Melbourno Botanical Gardens, who passed through Wellington this week on his way back to Australia from Rotorua, was attached to tho Challenger expedition of 1868 as botanist, and saw a great deal of the Pacific during that memorable cruise. In s4me cases the scientific expedition became warlike, and Mr. Guilfoyle saw, as a non-combatant, some hard fighting, especially in Fiji, then under native rule. Shortly after returning from the expedition, during which he made a splendid collection of botanical specimens, Mr. Uuilfoyle was made Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, which positior he has retained ever since.