PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. P. Halley, Conciliation Commissioner, left Wellington for Dunedin last evening. Mr. A. Hamilton, director of the Dominion Museum, is at present visiting Napier. Mr. W. H. Westbrooke, Inspector of Factories, Oamaru, left to take up his new appointment last evening. At a meeting of the Wellington Technical Board last evening, Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. Mr. H. T. Revell, of the Wellington Boys' College staff, has been appointed assistant instructor to the English class at the Technical School. Miss Sicely, who has been mistress of the Mangatainoka School, Pahiatua, for the past fifteen years, will be transferred to the Hutt School on 3rd April. Among those who came from South by the Mararoa this morning were the Hon. T. Fergus, Mr. Justice Denniston, Sir George Clifford, and Canon M'Murray. Mr. W. Gough, of Wellington, who had arranged to leave for Sydney by the Moeraki last week on his way to Queensland, where he has property, was seized with an illness before the boat left, and has since been confined to bed at the New Occidental Hotel. At the offices of Messrs. Arthur Warburton and Co., yesterday afternoon, Mr. A. L. Warburton received a presentation from the staff of the firm on tho occasion 'of his approaching marriage. The presentation was made by Mr. Martin Ellison, od behalf of the firm. Hon. A. VV. Hogg leaves Masterton j for Pahiatua and Makuri on Monday. ! On Tuesday he will visit Pongaroa, and on "Wednesday Weber and Dannevirke. Thence he proceeds to the King Country, and will be absent for a fortnight. The Minister intends visiting Thames and Tauranga. Capt. Forbes, late of the New Zealand Shipping Company's service, cannot spare the time to sit as one of the nau- , tical assessors in the Penguin appeal case, and Capt. Rupert England, formerly of the Nimrod, will take his place. The other assessor will be Capt. Lake, j harbour master, at Napier. j The R«v. A. W. H. Compton, who I was lately appointed to the wardenship of the Hadfield Hostel, Kelburne, is also to take charge of the Kelburne parish. Mr. Compton begins his work tomorrow with services at St. Michael's, | Uplandi-road. There will be a celebra- ] tion of Holy Communion at 8 a.m., and evensong at 7 p.m. The death is announced of Mr. J. V. Cordoza, who, for many .years, kept a fruiterer's shop on Lambton-quay. A J Spaniard by birth, he came to New Zea- ■ land many years ago, and settled in Wanganui, where he and Mrs. Cordoza soon became identified with, the social I life of the town, Mrs. Cordoza being a singer of more than usual quality. Deceased's characteristics made him popular with a large circle of acquaintances. He was an enthusiastic follower of the pastime of bowling, and he was known on every green in Wellington.