PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 137, 9 December 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

♦ Mr. John Murrell returned to Wellington from Sydney to-day. Mr. W. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police, has gone to Taranaki. The Hon. J. Carroll, Native Minister, arrived in Wellington last evening. Mr. A. L. D. Fraser, ex-M.P. for Napier, is at present on a visit to Wellington. Chief Judge Palmer, of the Native Land Court, arrived from Auckland last evening. Lady Poore, wife of Admiral Poore, arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa. She will rejoin his Excellency in the South. Mr. R. M. Simpson, manager of the Phoenix Fire Office, returned from Melbourne via Sydney to-day by the Ulimaroa. The appointment of Mr. Guy L'Estrange Logan as a Lieutenant in the Heretaunga Mounted Rifles has been approved Mr. John Coom, formerly of the N.Z. Railway Department, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned by tho Ulimaroa to-day. Mr. J. Grattan Grey, formerly chief of the New Zealand Hansard staff, and Mrs. Grey, arrived in Wellington from Melbourne, via Auckland, this mornnig. Dr. Mathew Holmes, of Wellington, who has been appointed a captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps, is to be attached to No. 5 Co. (Wellington) Field Ambulance. A.t the meeting of the Karori Borough Council last evening Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald was appointed as arbiter in connection with a dispute between the borough and the city concerning roads. Mr. R. Coombes, editor of the Sydney Referee, and Mr. A. S. Andrews,' of the Sydney Sunday Sun, arrived by the Ulimaroa to-day. They have come over to see the Webb-Arnst race at Wanganui. Mr. W. A. Flavell, local manager of the Westport Coal Company, has gone to Rotqrua on a fortnight's holiday. His duties have been temporarily taken over by Mr. A. Hamilton, of the company's Dunedin office. The Hon. J. A. Millar will *cave Wellington to-night to attend a "social" and garden party at Temuka to-morrow, in honour of Mr. Buxton, the new member for Geraldine. The Minister will return on Saturday morning. Mr. G. C. Schmidt, late private secretary to the Hon. Hall-Jones, and now assistant chief clerk in the head office of the Public Works Department, left for Rotorua to-day. Mr. Schmidt has been granted leave of absence until the end of the year. A movement is afoot in Christchurch with the object of making some public recognition of the services rendered by Superintendent Smith, who is retiring from the command of the Christchurch Fire Brigade after being connected with it for over thirty years." Lieutenant-Colonel Knight, Provincinl Commander of the Salvation Army, will visit Apiti on Saturday, and, by way of Pahiatua and Carterton, return "to Wellington about the 17th December. After Christmas he will go to Tauranga to inspect the army's work among the Maoris, and also to report on the fishing industry. Mr. L. S. Dudley, at one time on the staff of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., Wellington, is returning to New Zealand on six months' furlough, per R.M.S. Rimutaka, from South Africa, where he has been during the last five years in the service of the Bank of Africa, Ltd. He will return to Africa after paying a visit to his friends and relatives, in New Zealand. Mr. D. D. Hyde, Government Poultry Expert, will attend the Australasian Poultry Experts' Conference to be held in Hobart in January. Mr. Hyde leaves Wellington for Whetukura, near Ormondville, to-morrow, to inspect Mr. TaylorWhite's breeding station at Wimbledon. Mr. White's successful experiments in sheep and goafc and fov.l i\nd duck breeding have been brought under the notice of the Government, bence Mr. Hyde's visit.