PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 44, 21 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

iMr. J. D. Ritcnie, (Secretary for Agriculture, left for the South, 'art night. Mr. T. M'lndoe, of Te Aroha, has resigned his appointment as a Justiceof the Peace. Cardinal Moran, who has been visiting Rotorua, was expected* to return to Auckland to-day. Mr. T. A. Dykes is gazetted a surveyor of ships and examiner of masters and mates for the Dominion. Mr. G. A Troup, chief draugntsman of the Railway Department, leaves for Sydney to-day on a health and holiday trip. Captain W. R. Morris, of the Post and Telegraph Rifles, has been transferred to tho active list (unattached), with rank of captain. Mr. Justice Denniston, Dr. Mason (Chief Health Officer), Professor Gilray, and Dr. Evans were passengers from Lyttelton by the Maori to-day Rev. Charles Inwood, from the Keswick Convention, who has been addressing meetings in New Zealand, is to leave Wellington on Saturday for a tour of the Hot Lakes district. Mr. T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, will attend the Woodville A. and P. Show next week. Mr. Cockayne, Assistant Biologist, will go to Rakaia next Monday. Mr. M. Foley, clerk of tho District and ulagistrate's Courts a-t Stratford, has been transferred to Masterton, vice Mr. E. Rawson, recently appointed to the magisterial bench. Mr. Foloy, who was formerly in Wellington, will also be Sheriff for the Wairarapa district. Our Masterton correspondent telegraphs that the death occurred early this morning of Mr. Burton Boys, aged 77, an old pioneer colonist. He lived for forty years in th© Wairarapa, and took a prominent part in the volunteer and militia movement during the Maori troubles. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones and the Hon. Dr Findlay went south by tho Rotoiaahana last evening. The AttorneyGeneral will be present at the banquet to be given to Mr. Hall-Jones at Timaru to-night. Dr. Findlay will return to Wellington on Sunday, but tho Ministpr for Railways is not expected bapk until Wednesday next. Hon. J. M'Gowan, Minister for Justice, vill to-morrow afternoon at tho Hutt Park present the Kebbell shield to the winning company of cadets of the 3rd Wellington battalion. The shield was presented by Mr. Kobbell, of Ohau, with the view of encouraging rifle marksmanship amongst the cadets. On Monday the Minister will open a bazaar at the Lower Hutt. The Right Rev. Dr. Verdon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, went north yesterday to take part in tho ceremony of the Cathedral Consecration at Auckland. His Grace Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, left for Auckland some days ago. The Rignt Rev. Dr. Grimes, Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, has been unable to travel owing to illness. Bishops Gallacher, of Goulburn, and O'Connor, of Armidale, arrived in Auckland with Cardinal Movan, Mr. H. S. Dettman, M. A., of Longuevillo, Sydney, who has been appointed to the professorship of classics at Auckland University College, was ono of 26 applicants for tho position fiom Home and eight from the colonies. 'Cho successful candidate, who is 32 years of age, had a remarkably suctewful careet as a student, and graduated in 1897 as a BA. at Sydney. In 1899 ho entered the Ballio' College, Oxford, and was almost immediately ekcted by examination to a classical exhibition. Two years later he gained a secondclass in tho final B.A. Then in 1902 he sat for the higher • degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, and gained one of tho three second-classes of the year, no first being awarded. At Adelaide in 1906 he acted rs professor of classics, and at the end of the year the University paid him the compliment of an honorary ad eundem degree. During tho last year Mr. Dettmann acted as solo public examiner to the Adelaide University in the higher classics. His testimonial"? include several from tho Sydney professors, the master and the iate master of Balliol, and the chancellors of the Universities of Sydney and Adelaide.