PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. J. J. L. Burke has been appointed assistant. Land Registrar at Wellington. Rev. W. J. Mayers, with the boys from the Barnardo Homes, arrived from the South this morning by the Maori. Mr. J. P. fljuke intends taking a trip over tho Main Trunk line next week. He expects to spend a week on his travels. Mr. John Cudby is gazetted a member of the Assessment Court for the Johnsonville Town District and tho Makara County. Mr. C. A. Cotton, late director of the Coromandel School of Mines, has taken up his duties as lecturer in geology at Victoria College. Mr. John Kneeehaw, superintendent of the New South Wales Government Tramways, will return to Sydney by the "Warrimoo this evening. • The resignation of the Hon. T. Mac- j kenzie as Commissioner of State Forests, •and the appointment of Sir Joseph Ward in his stead, is gazetted. Mr. H. F. Arkwright, of Marton, wil leave Wellington by the Warrimoo to-night, and catch the Ophir, leaving for London on the 15th inst. Mr. W. Pryor has arranged to go to Gisborne next Monday, for a two weeks' organising tour on behalf of the New Zealand Employers' Federation. Sub-inspector O'Donovan, formerly of Wellington, and now of Palmerston North, has goae to Wanganui to take up the work of Inspector Wilson, who is indisposed. The Minister of Railways has postponed his visit to the West Coast until Monday next. He will be detained in Wellington by departmental business until that date. Mr. S. J. Elston, of Dunedin, has been appointed organising secretary in New Zealand and Australia for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. He has commenced his duties with a tour of Southlon d and Otago. Mr. W. Crichton (Crichton and M'Kay, architects, Wellington) and Mrs. Crichton arrived at Marsielles from Australia last__Saturday. It is their intention to spend six weeks on tho Continent before going to London. ■ Mr. E. V T . Lowe, resident secretary for New Zealand for the Australian Mutual Provident Society, will leave for Sydney by the Warrimoo to-night, to attend the annual meeting of the society. He will be accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Lowe. Mr. Peter Wright, of Windermere, England, arrived in Wellington from Melbourne by the Warrimoo to-day. On Monday he will leave for a tour of the Hot Lakes, after which he will travel among some of the South Sea Islands. At Suva he will join the Aorangi for Vancouver in June. •Vlr. H. H. Goldschmidt, of Cheapside, London, is at present in Wellington. He arrived in New Zealand by the Paparoa. Next Monday he will j leave for Rotorua. Ho will then tour Australia, and will return to Wellington in July, in order to pick up the lonic for the return journey to Eng- | land. The Minister of Public Works and Mines (the Hon. R. M'Kenzie), accompanied by Mr. R. W. Holmes, engineer-in-chief to the Public Works Department, arrived at Tauranga .from Waihi yesterday. They leave for Te Puke today, and after traversing the proposed route of the East Coast railway, expect to reach Gisborne on Tuesdpy in time to catch the steamer for Napier. Accompanied by his son and daughter, Dr. Hodgkin, D.C.L., Litt. D., a distinguished historian and writer, is staying in Wellington for a short period. As members of the Society of Friends, their chief object in visiting the Colonies i/ to meet Australasian members of the body and give them some news and information irom the Homoland. Dr. Hodgkin, who is closely interested in university work, is one of the oldest graduates of the University College, London, and had a large share in the foundation of the Physical Science College (now known as the Armstrong College) at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Affiliated to Durham Colleges, which grants its degrees, the Armstrong Colleges specialises in such technical subiects <as engineering, shipbuilding, coal mining, agriculture, etc. So far, little has been done on the literary side, but there is a strong feeling that more attention should be given to ancient and modern literature. As an ethnologist and archaeologist of note, Dr. Hodgkins is much interested in Colonial museums, and especially in the Maoris, of whom he has heard such a lot. The Dr.'s uncle, Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, was the founder of the Aborigines Protection Society. Owing to a slight accident while in the South Island, Dr. Kodgkin was not able to travel over much, but he saw Lake Wakatipu, and thinks the scenery thereabout very much like Switzerland. Prior to leaving New Zealand, the doctor visits Auckland, and leaves thence for Australia. Mr. D. M. Luckie, whose death at the age of 81 we record to-da.y, was one of the older group of New Zealand journalists,, though by no means among the oldest survivors from the early days. It was doubtless through his newspaper association with Sir Julius Vogel, the founder of Government Life Insurance, that he joined the department thirty years ago, since which time he has had no active association with journalism. In 1863, when he arrived in New Zealand, there were not more than forty newspapers in the colony, more than half of which were recently established. The leading lights were then the Nelson Examiner, the New Zealander, the Southern Cross, the Wellington Independent, the New Zealander, ancl the Otago Witness. The Lyttelton Times was a young paper, and the Press an infant. There were, two newspapers in Napier, and the smaller towns had their representatives. The Colonist, in Nelson, and the Colonist m Dunedin, occupied minor places. The Examiner was "The Times" of New Zealand — modelled in the form and btyle of the great London paper, and reckoning among its contributors some of the leading statesmen in New Zealand. But when Mr. Luckie — clever, incisive, epigrammatic, took editorial charge of the Colonist, the older paper found it had a rival to reckon with. Mr. Luckie's work shared the inevitable fate of journalistic contributions. Some of it might have possessed permanent value, but he never made any effort to preserve it, even for his own reference. He has been a member of the Journalists,' Institute since its establishment nearly twenty years ago, and loved to attend its gatherings. His reminiscences of the pressmen and politicians of forty-five years ago were inexhaustible.

The Pride of Brooklyn Lodge, •U.A.0.D., held a special summoned meeting last night at the Church of England Schoolroom, Brooklyn, Bro. Andrews, A.D., ;n; n the chair. Grand Secretary Bro. Grant paid on official visit, and was heartily welcomed, as were also members of the Excelsior Lodge. There was a large attendance of members ancl ■visitors, including many past officers. P.A. Bro. Crombie, was nominated for the office of D.P., During the evening a shield was presented for competition by the various lodges in the district, to go to the winner of the most gamee of cards played. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, h Ad 1 MA 2s 6d.~- Adyt, (