PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS.

yice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore waa trout-fishing at Wainui-o-mata yester- ' The Hon. J. M'Gowan arrives in Wellington to-night from the North, ' viaj the overland route. Mr. Nisbeb M'Robie, one of the pro* piietors of the Waihi Daily Telegraph, is at preseno in Wellington. Miss F. Brandon, who has been on « vifit to Europe, returned by the Warri« moo to-day, via Sydney. Mr. Corby has been re-elected Buller county chairmau without opposition (says a Press Association telegram). Mr. Robert Anderson, of J. G. Ward and Co., Invercargill, who has been on a six months' business tour of the Old Country, returned by tho Warrimoo today. Mr. W. Binnie, Commissioner of Police, and Mr. E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, will be back in Wellington on iMonday — the former from Canter* bury.j and the latter from Auckland. Mr. R. Stewart was a passenger from Sydney by the Warrimoo to-day. Ha has with him the advance company of the "Girl from the Golden West," in which play Miss Tittell Brnne will open in Auckland on 30th NovemberMr. Leslie Reynolds, engineer-in* charge of the Arthur's Pass tunnel contract, is at present in Wellington. He has been visiting Wanganui in connection with tfoe harbour, works at that .port. Mr. Reynolds will return to Otira to-morrow. In the London Times of 12th October, under the' heading "Art Exhibitions, attention is drawn to "the removal of tha Baiilie Gallery from far away "Baker* ■eta^et to 13, Bronton-sfcreet." The Times says of the one-time Wellingtonian ; "Mr. ■Baiilie has long shown himsolf a man of taste, and a discoverer of artistic talent.'* Admiral Sir A. W. Moore, \yho was connnander-m-chief on the China Stai tion in 1905, was a passenger to Wellington by the Warrimoo to-day. Tha Admiral 'will spend some time in New Zealand. He served in tho Egyptian War in 1882, and was one of tho English, representatives at the Anti-Slavery Con* gross at Brussels. Ho was also a mem* ber of the Australian Council of Defence, and a Lord Commissioner of tha Admiralty from 1898 to J 901. In 1905 he was second in command i of tha Channel Fleet. Mr. W. Short, the King's Trumpeter* who has arrived to fulfil an engagement to give two trumpet recitals ia th-3 Town Hall in conjunction with tb* * WeHington Professional Orchestra oa the 2nd and 7th December, started play*; ing the cornet when * he was about ten years old, and lat«(r was trained by the celebrated musician Palgrave Simpson, He commenced playing the trumpet when he was twenty-one, and has stuclc to it ever since. At the time of tha Queen's Jubilee, in 1887, he gained tha position of one of the trumpeters in thft Queen's Band, and he played at the twojubilees and at the King's coronation* He acted as musical adjudicator at tha Grand National Eistyddfod at Ballarafc this year, and has received a letter from the secretaiy, stating that his visit had been a decided gain to music throughout the Commonwealth.