PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. Justice Denniston was a passongcr for the South by the Maori last night. Ilev. Dr. and Mrs. Tudor Jones have returned to Wellington from their holidajs. Mr. T. H. Hamor, Under-Secreiai-y Iqr Min3s, is on a departmental visit to Dunedin. Mr. F. Heed, Inspecting Engineer of the Mines Department, will leave for •ilis North next week. Mr. V. E. Meredith, solicitor, is the Bew junior lieutenant of No. 1 Company Wellington Naval Artillery. Mr. W. Pv. Thompson has been promoted from tha Wellington telegraph staff to be postmaster at Opxmake. Mr. Gr. B. Moss, formerly member for j Ohinemuri, will contest tho Parnell seat at the general election, says an Auck- j land Press Association telegram. ! Qis Excellency tlis Governor and Lady ; Plunket left for Chiistchurch by the j Maori last, night. They' expect to bo back in Wellington on 13th March. Miss Julia Moran, well known in Wellington musical circles, leaves for Australia shortly. Miss Moran has accepted an appointment on the staff of an Australian paper. Mr. H. J. Francis, cf the A.M.P. Society, has been appoint? I district manager for tho society at now branch offices at Masterton, and leaves nest ■week io take, charge. A Palmerston North telegram states that Mr. H. F. Gibbons, inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, is resigning his position in order to become a partner in the firm of Barraud and Abraham, the well-known auctioneers. Rev. J. Cocker and Mrs. Cocker, who are leaving by the Arawa on 26th March, intend to visit England, and probably the Holy Land. Mr. Cocker Has been appointed by the New Zealand Primitive Methodist ' Conference as representative to the British Conference raesting in London in June, in the famous City Road Church, "the Cathedral of Methodism," which has been lent for the occasion. An Imperial Edicl' published in Pekin on 27th January, granted the veteran Sir Robert Hart, InspectorGeneral of Customs, long leave, with the rank of a Board President. Sir Robert E. Bredon, another distinguished 'Irishman, who has been Deputy-Inspec-tor-General of Chinese Customs since 1898, succeeds his late chief with the rank of a Lisutenant-Governor. The Hongkong daily press prophesies with confidence that Sir Robert Br<=don will maintain the excellent traditions that have lifted the Imperial Marine Customs almost entirely out of tho mire «f political diplomatic intrigue. His Honour Mr. Justice Buttoa vill take the case Smith v. Biss in the Supreme Court on Monday. This will be tiie last occasion his Honour will sit on the bench under his present appointment. Owing to the absence of the Chief Justice on Native Land Commission work and the accumulation of legal business here, consequent on other judicial arrangements, it was found necessary to appoint an additional judge to assist in clearing off die arrears of work. Mr. Justice Button having disposed of the extra work, he will return to Auckland and resume his legal busiless in that city.