PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Minister for Railways, arrived from the South by the Maori this morning. Notwithstanding the constant succession of interviews, deputations, and numerous calls from the time he arrived in Lyttelton almost till he stepped on board the steamer la3t night, it is satisfactory to be able to state- that he feels quite well — in fact, within a couple- of hours after landing from the steamer he was hard at work at his office, and aB cheerful as he ever waa. Mr. J. P. Luke was this morning elected chairman of tho Wellington District Hospital Board. Professor Scott, of Christchurch, and Mrs. Scott arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Arawa, which they joined at HobarL Capt. Johnson, harbour master, was yesterday granted by tho Harbour Board seven weeks' leave of absence in order to visit Australia. Mr. William Barnard, of Foxton, was on tho motion of Mr. Atkinson admitted by Mr. Justice Chapman yesterday as £v (solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Chapman will leave Weiliugton on Thursday afternoon for Gisborne to take the circuit sittings, commencing on tho 2nd of March. Mr. Jas. Kowin, who is representing the London firm of Lovell and Christmas, arrived by the Arawa from London. Mr. Kowin will reside in Hawcra for some timo. His Excellency the Governor arrived at the Bluff by the Tutanekai yesterday sftornoon, and was to go on to tho West Coast sounds this morning, returning on 10th March. The Hon. E. Mitchelson was yesterday elected chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board and Mr. J. E. Watsoii was appointed for the third term as chairman of the Bluff Board. Mrs. Johnston, of Awahuri (Feilding), widow of thje Hon. Walter Johnson, leaves for England on 10th May, accompanied by her daughters, Slesdanies Baldwin and W. Turnbull. A Napier Press Association telegram states that the Rev. C. Dallaston, who is leaving to take charge of the Mornington Baptist Church, was presented with a purse of sovereigns last night. The Yen. Arch Priest Le Menantdes Ghesnais took charge of the Temuka parish last week. Father Kerley, who had been in charge oi Temuka for some years, has been transferred to Timaru. Mr. Jas. Godber, chairman of the District, of Wellington Hospital Board and a City Councillor, was this morning granted six months leave of absence by the Hospital Board, in order that he may pay a visit to the Old Country. Mr. John Coom, Chief engineer of tho maintenance branch of the railways, who is retiring from the service, was presented yesterday with an oil portrait of himself by the officers of the department. The presentation was made by the general manager, Mr. T. Ronayne, who referred to tho valuable work done by Mr. Coom. Commissioner M'Kie, of the Salvation Army, who arrived in Wellington to-day recently received a letter from General Booth. The "G.0.M." of the Army seemted to bo in excellent health after his American tour, which had been an extraordinary success. Tho General is now turning his attention Co some special affairs in England, and perfecting his plans of an emigration schemb in which Canada and {South Africa will be tho objectives. "This is occupying his whole mind," said the Commissioner, "and it seoms to me that he is regarding it as one of his last efforts." Tho Rev. Father Mahony, parisa priest a/b Leeeton for the past two years, who has been transferred to "Buckle-street parish, Wellington, and left yesterday to take- up his new duties, was on Sunday evening at Southbridge presented by tho parishioners tfith a purse of sovereigns and an address, and by the school children with a silver-mounted umbrella. From the Loeston parishioners ho also received a purse- of sovereigns and an address, and Mia school children gave him a Loewe pipe. The Rev. Father Hills ha.s gone from Wellington to tako charge of tha Leeaton and Southbridge parishes. The late General Manager of tho Extiibifcion (Mr. G. S. Munro) was on Monday (says tho Lyttelton Times) the recipient of a presentation from a Christchurch firm. "Don't go away thinking that everyone in Christchurch who was connected with the lato Exhibition gave you a bad name," stated the» aceompunying letter. "As an exhibitor who had several dealings with you as manager, we always found you to be straightforward, businesslike and courteous, and we cannot help thinking that had you been otherwise with numbers of people with whom you were brought into contact a. manager, less uncomplimentary remarks would havo been made about you." The death occurred at Auckland yesterday of Mr. Edward Lake, who lor several years sat in Parliament as the representative of the Waipa seal, later merged into the Waikato electorate. Mr. Laku, who was born in Kent, England, in 1847, came to New Zealand in 1876, and took up farming at Ffernside, an estate of over a thousand acres, near Ohaupo. He took an immediute interest in local politics, and was shortly afterwards elected to the chair of the Waipa County Council. In iou-t he was sleeted for the Waipa seat as an opponent of • the Stout- Vogel administration, and in 1892-3 sat as an opponent of the late Mr. Ballance. He then retired, and was succeeded b« Mr. F. \Y. Lang. Mr. Geo. Fenwick, managing director of tl]o Otago Daily Times, was in Wellington to-day on his way to attend the meeting of the directors of the Press Association to be held at Napior on Friday. Mr. L. Blundcll, who is also a director of tho Association, will leavo Wellington to-morrow for the meeting. On 4th March a meeting of subscribers to the Pross Association will be held, and the following day tho Newspaper Proprietors' Association will meet in the Hawke's Bay town. Mr. W. G. Atack, manager of the Press Association, lca-.es Wellington for Napier to-morrow, and Mr. G. G. Stead, of tho Christchurch Press, a director of the Association, will pass through to-morrow on his way to the meeting.