PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Rev. Father Lynch arrived from Sydney by the Riverina to-day. Sir George Clifford arrived from South by the Maori this morning. Mr. A. L. Herdman, M.P., returned from a trip to Australia by the Riverina to-day. The Rev. L. L. Cubitt and Mrs. Cubitt, of Whangarei, are on a Visit to | Wellington. Mr. T. F. Grey, chief clerk of the Defence Department, is retiring on superannuation owing tn ill-health. j Mr. A. V. Snaddon, accountant at the Ashburton branch of the Union Bank, has been transferred to Wellington on promotion. Mr. J. Kneeshaw, superintendent of the Sydney tramways, was a passenger by the Riverina from Sydney to-day. (He goes on to Lyttelton to-night-Mr. L. S. Humphries, a well-known Wellington builder, who has been on a twelve months' trip to America- and Great Britain, returned to Wellington by to-day's steamer from Sydney. The Rev. A. de H. Robinson, who leaves Wellington for England to-day, has been presented with a pursa of sovereigns from the vestry, Sydney-street Sunday School teachers, and cliurchworkers of Tinakori-road Church. Dr. Crawford, who was for many years house surgeon at the Wanganui Hospital, arrived in Auckland last week, after an absence of twjo years in England, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Dr. Crawford will take up private practice in Wanganui. The Hon. G. Fowlds is in Christchurch to-day, the Hon. T. Mackenzie at Balclutha, the Hon. A. W. Hogg at Te Puke, and the Hon. A. T. Ngata at Patea. All /■ the other Ministers, with the exception of the Prime Minister, who is at Dunedin, are in Wellington. The Hon. D. Buddo will leave for Chiistchurch to-night. Captain Henry Rose, of Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, formerly manager at Wellington for the New Zealand Shipping Company, left by the Main Trunk line to-day for Rotorua, accompanied by his two sons, Messrs A. B. and W. H. Rose. Captain Kose, accompanied by Mr. A. B. Rose, of the Imperial Army, who is here on furlough, will leave for England, via Vancouver, in about a month's time. Sir Joseph Ward arrived in Christ"church yesterday morning, and went South by the second express. He will (states a Press Association message) this morning receive a deputation at Dunedin in regard to the stopping of the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway, in the evening he will present the prizes in connection with the Associated Board of Music, on Thursday will go to Taieri, will be present at a social gathering at Mosgiel in honour of the Hon. T. Mankenzrie in tJie evening, -will bo at Invercargill on Friday, and on Saturday evening, in that city, will deliver an important speech. He will • remain in the South until Tuesday, and on that day will return to Christchurch, and be present at a social gathering to Mr. W. W. Tanner in the evening, after which he will leave for Wellington. An unprecedented action on the part of the City Council staff took place yesterday afternoon, when a presentation was made to the retiring Mayor by way of spontaneous tribute from the staff to the excellent manner in which he had carried out the duties of his office, more especially those which brought him into intimate relationship with the municipal i officers. The presentation took the form ' of a roller-top office-desk and chair, and a solid silver rose-bowl. The Town Clerk, Mr. J. R. Palmer, spoke of his staff's keen appreciation of the Mayor's many excellent qualities, which had been always conspicuous during his four sue- I cessive terms of office, and concluded by wishing him success in the future. The Hon. T. W. Hislop expressed his pleasure in acknowledging the good work done by the staff, and thanked its members sincerely for the evidence of their goodwill.