PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. T. W. Kirk, the Government Biologist, will return from the South on Saturday. The Rev. Dr. Capra, of Milan, leaves to-day for Nelson. He will go to Sydney on Friday of next week, en route to Italy. Mr. W. Judge, of the literary staff or the Evening Star, Dunedin, and his wife, returned from a trip to Australia yesterday. Mr. Alex. Macintosh, general superintendent in New Zealand for Dalgety and Co., will be a passenger for Sydney by the Riverina to-morrow. Colour-Sergeant Gatland has held the Coromandel Rifle Volunteer Belt for the past four years, and Northern papers announce that he has again secured the same trophy. The Rev. Father Saunderson, from Ireland, was a passenger to Wellington by the Warrimoo yesterday afternoon. He has been appointed assistant priest at Masterton. At its meeting last night, the Yorkshire Society passed a motion of condolence with the Rev. J. Dawson and Mrs. Dawson, whose son Clifford was drowned in Auckland last week. Mr. E. C. Batlrin, formerly of Wellington, was a passenger to New Zealand by the Warrimoo yesterday. For the past two years Mr. Batkin has been living at Toowoomba, Queensland. The Hon. C. M. Luke, M.L.C., who underwent an operation about ten days ago, is still confined to his bed, and will probably not be able to resume business for at least another fortnight. Mr. K. O. Brown, for many years traveller for the firm of Messrs. Edmondson and Dickerson, who is about to take a trip Home, was yesterday presented with a farewell gift from his brother commercial travellers. Mr. J. W. Marchbanks, the newlyappointed engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, has left for the South, en route to Australia. It is the intention of Mr. Marchbanks to inspect all the principal harbour works in the South and Australia prior to taking up his new duties on Ist May. Mr. H. S. King, engineer and manager for Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, Wellington, an associate of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, England, and for many years connected with the Westinghouse Company, has been elected an honorary life member o* the New Zealand Institute of Marine Engineers. News reached Wellington to-day of the death at Taupo early this morning of Judge Reeve, of the Native Land Court, Deceased was only appointed judge some eight months ago, and for some time past he has been in illhealth. He was a native of Auckland, and at one time a prominent athlete in the Northern city. Deceased, who was about 38 years of age, leaves a widow and two children. Mr. G. F. Gee, on retiring from the service of the National Bank of New Zealand, was presented by the Wellington staff of the bank with a very handsome album of New Zealand views. In making the presentation, Mr. Wastney, the accountant, spoke of the cordial relations which had existed between Mr. Gee and the officers stationed in Wellh gton during the fifteen years that that gentleman had heen manager, and expressed regret thai Mr. Gee was leaving the bank's service. Advantage was taken of the occasion to welcome Mr. J G. Stott, who is to succeed Mr. Gee as local manager. Mr. Gee is about to settle in England. Captain Fyler, of H.M.S. Encounter, has sent a letter to Mr. C. W. Palmer, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, expressing appreciation of the tribute of respect which the I audience, at Lieut. Knox's final lecture in Wellington, paid to the memory of the men-of-war sailors who were drowned in Sydney harbour through a collision between their pinnace and a steamboat belonging to the mercantile marine. Mr. Palmer is also in receipt of a letter from the relatives of the late Mr. M'lntyre, chief officer of the Penguin, thanking the league for the wreath placed on deceased's coffin. Some weeks ago the Tourist Department acquired a large collection of goats' heads, sturdy and pungent, from the Martinborough district. They were fine heads, so far as they went, and the horns, from a sporting point of view, magnificent, but the odour — phew ! The heads hung in the vestibule of the offices in Panama-street, and they decorated the stairs, but they could be scented on a still day within a radius of 100 yards. Now they have been removed, and the staff breathes freely : " Fov this relief, .much thanks." It seems that the taxidermal work had not had time to season before tho specimens were placed on exhibition. This is now receiving ati tention, and the specimens, together with some excellent boars' heads, from the same district, will be placed where they may be seen by the general public. . Messrs. W. H. Morrah and Co. will sell by public auction in their rooms, Willisstrcot, al 2 o'clock to-morrow, household furniture and effects, tho contents of an eight-roomed house ; also cabinetmakers' benches, cramps, etc. Details are advertised in. this issue-. Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald, Ltd., will submit to auction, to-morrow, at 2.30 o'clock, under instructions from Mr. G..,]?. Gee, who is leaving for England, his freehold family lesidenco and grounds, situ<ate in Bolton-streefc. Tho residence contains 12 rooms, and a verandah runs round two sides of the residence, from which extended views of the city, harbour, and Kutt Valley aro -obtained. It is within a few minutes' walk from Lambton-quay. Cards to view tlio residence- can be obtained'from the auctioneers. The-firm will also Bubmit toco six-roomed residences situ.ato Martin-square, erecteS on laud having a frontage of 36ft by- a depth -of 7Qffc.