PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Col. Robin arived in Wellington from the South yesterday. Mr Charles Hirons, of Ohingaiti, is at present vis:ting Wellington. Mi. S. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, is at present in Nelson. Tho Inspector of Prisons (Lieut.Colonel Hume) left for New Plymouth this morning. Cummings with a handsome wedding present on tho occasion of hor leaving the firm's employ. Dr. Tudor Jones is on a visit to Taranaki Ho will return to Wellington in about a fortnight. Judge Fisher, Under-Secretary foiNative Affairs, has returned to Wellington irom Gisborne. Mr. A. A. Corrigan, manager of the Wellington branch ol the D.1.C., left for Christchurch on Saturday. ( The Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Wallis), will leave for England on Friday to attend the Lambeth Conference. On Saturday, Miss .Tendail, on be 7 half of the staff of Messrs. Kirkcaldio sud Staias's tea rooms, presented Miss Mr. _W. Lissant Clayton states that there is a possibility of his coming forward as a candidate for the Gisborne seat at tha next general election. Mr. Jaques, tha Government fruitcanning expert, returned from the Neisor district on Saturday, and will leave for Central Otitgo this evening. Mr, T. C. Dawson, of Messrs Damon and Maudsley, leaves Sydney on 26th inst. per s.s. Moulton for a short business trip to Great Britain. It is stated that Mr. Peebles, of Opotiki, will contest tho Bay of Plenty Beat, in addition to Mr. Gow, Mr. W. J. P. Gaudin, Mr. G. F E. Hindmarsh, and Mr. W. D. Lysnar. Mr. Whiteford, L-ecoua matt of vhe Hinemoa, is to become chief officer of tho Tutanekai when Captain Dykes retires to take hp the dutice. of examiner ol .niisters and hiutos at Auckland. Mr. J. B. Teasdale (of Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains's staff together with Mrs. Teasdale and their little daughter, who have been on an extended visit to the Old Country, Will arrive in Wellington on tho 19th inst., via Sydney. Mr. M, J. Casey, s who for several ysars filled the position of secretary to ths City Corporation Picnic Committee, has rectived n. presentation case of pipes to mark his fellow workers' appreciation of thtt work dona by him in that capacity. The Mastsrton special of The Post wired to-day : — "The solicitors here pressnted Mr. Rawson, clerk of tho Magistrate's Court, with a gold watch. Mr ttawson leaves shortly to take up tho duties of Stipendiary Magistrate at Westport. . Captain T. W. M'Donald, "Assistant Adjutant-General, who has been granted six weeks' leavo of absence iv order that he may revbit Tasmania, will leave for that State by the Marama next Thursday. He will return by way of Melbourne and Sydney. Mr. ,R. G. Finchan, of Colac, Victoria, President of the Hospitals and Charities Association of that State, and President of the Victorian Chamber of Agriculture, is in J New Zealand for tho pur/.ase of enquiring into certain aspects of hospital and charitable aid administration in the Dominion. His chief bubject of enquiry is as \,o the relations between the trustees apd the nurses, aad the sphereo and privileges of each. The Rev. Father Kiinbell," 'S.M., for' the last five years stationed afc St. Mary o* tho Angels, Boulcott-streot, is leaving Wellington for t-he House of Studies of his. Order t , at. Meanee, Kawkes Bay, there to join the Rev. Father O'Connell, the present Administrator of the Catholic Cathedral, Christchurch. Fathers O'Counell and Kiinb?Jl will soon begin a series of missions throughout the archdiocese ; this being due to the special works of their Order. The Ministers in Wellington to-day are : Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Hon. G. Fowlds, Hon. J. A- Millar, and the Hon. Dr. Findlay. The Premier is in Auckland, thß Hon. R. M'Nab at Feilding, the Hon. J. M'Gowan is on his way to New Plymouth, and the Hon. J. Carroll^ is at Gisborne. The Hon. R. M'Nab's visit to Feilding is for the purpose of inspecting the site ottered for a dairy school. He will inspect another proposed site at Hawera to-mor-row. The Hon. J. M'Gowan has gone to New Plymouth to inspect the wing of tha gaol set apart for habitual criminals. St Anne's Church, Nev/town, was packed last evening when the Roy. Father Ainsworth, for five and a half years parish prkst in South Wellington, who is being transferred to the pastorate oi' Hokitika, preached his farowell ssnnon. During ths course of a veiy interesting and feeling address, the preacher said that when Newtown was, less than six years ago, constituted a parith the congregation was small, services had to be held ir_ a little room, and the grounds were a bog. During the period of his rectorship several thousands of pounds had been expended in the direction ot' supplying' church and school accommodation and providing a presbytery. He expressed his indebtedness to the Rev. Father Herbert, who had ever been a faithful assistant and a good friend, and to the sisters who had so well attended to th,c education of the children. In bidding farewell to a congregation for which, he said, he felt much love, Father Ainov ovth ennumerated tho Sacramental gifts which had been given to the church, ond exhorted his heaiers to be always loyal, and to sliotv that they were, practical Catholics >by making full use o»" those gifts. Later, Father Herbert announced that it was intended to present Father Ainsworth with a tsstimonial and some tangible mark of appreciation. The departing pastor, said Father Herbert, was a useful citizen, a worthy priest, and an ornament to the Society of Mary, of which he is a member. Father Ainsworth leaves for his new charge in a few days' time.