PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Minister for Labour will leave for the South # on Monday next. The Minister for Education (Hon. G. Fowlds) will open the HigU School and deliver a political speech at Dannevirko to-morrow. Mr. W. W. Bird, Inspector of Native Schools, left yesterday on a visit of inspection to the native schools on the East Coast. , Tho Hon. W. Ha?l-Jones will leave for Timaru on the 19th inst. to attend .a banquet to be given him by his constituents. Mr. T. Ronayiye, General Manager of Railways, accompanied by heads of branches, is making an inspection of lines in the North Island. Mr. 'A. G. Veatch, a member of the Geological Survey Departmont of the United States, is investigating the mining legislation of New Zealand. The Prime Minister will arrive in Rotorua next Tuesday, open tho icaroival on the following day (19th>), and resume his northern tour on the , 20th. Nurse Sims, late matron of tho Mount View Mental Hospital, has been,appointed matron of the Hokitika Hospital. Nurse Sima leaves Wellington on Satur■day. 1 ; An Auckland telegram states that among applicants for old age pensions at Waiuku was a native named Eparaima Rairai, aged one hundred 'and four years. He was one of Dr. Maunsell's missionaries. Captain R. G. Hunkin, of the steamer Chslmsford, died at his residence, Ponsonby, Auckland, on. Sunday nigh^ The. deceas?d had complained of indisposition earlier in the day, and whilst sitting in a chair before retiring to bad, suddenly expired, Captain M'Donald, of the District Defence Staff, who is leaving Wellington this week on a holiday visit to his old home in Tasmania, is bearing many messages with him from Tasmn-nianß now locntod in Wellington who bear warm regards for tho land of their birth and its people. Mr.. Joseph Hodgetts, an old and respectad'resident of Silvcratre.im, died at nis residence shortly before midnight on Monday. Deceased, who was in his sixty-fifth year, leaves a wife and grownup family. He was of a most genial disposition, and was known throughout the Hutfc Valley for his compositions of original verse on local and other interesting topics, which he either recited or sang at social gatherings. Tha Prime MiniGter (Sir Joseph Ward) and Lady Ward dined with .Lord and Lady Pluaket at Government House, Auckland, on Sunday evening. Commodore Bucharo\ and Flag-Lieutenant Mazare, A.D.0., of the French warship Catinat, with Madame Buchard and M. Boeufve (French Consul), lunched at Government House yesterday, says an i Auckland telegram.. Their Excellencies, accompanied by the Hon. Kalhleen Plunket, Captain Gathorne Hardy, A.D.C., and Mr. Waterford (Private Secretary), left Onehunga yesterday afternoon by the Tutanekai on a month's cruise r/ound the various ports of the Dominion, Hokianga being the first place of call.