PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 20, 23 July 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. G. Fowlds returned to Wellington from Pahiatua last night. Mr. A. E. Remington, M.P. for Rangitikei, is confined to his house by illness. Sir George Clifford was yesterday unanimously re-elected president of the New Zealand Racing Conference. Messrs. R. H. Fisher, Christchurch, and T. G. Nicholson, Feilding, have resigned their commissions as Justices of the Peace. Mr. J. E. Smith is gazetted Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands, as from Ist August next, vice Lieut.-Col-onel Gudgeon, C.M.G., retired. Mr. C. J. Crawford, Mayor of Miram'ar, has been appointed to represent the borough at the conference of local bodies relative to the Hospitals for Infectious Diseases. Mr. T, W. Fisher, Under-Secretary for Native Affairs; Mr. H. M. Smith, Crown Lands Ranger, Hastings, and Mr. Ihaia Ilutana, of Waipawa, have been appointed members of the Te Ikaroa Maori Land Board. Lieutenant G. E. B Mickle, of tho Royal New Zealand Artillery, has been promoted to the lank of captain, and Mr. E. J. Clough, late lieutenant in tho 10th New Zealand Contingent, has been appointed to a lieutenancy. Mr. A. Miller, manager of West's No. 1 Company, was presented with an address and a gold sovereign case, suitably inscribed, to mark the conclusion of an eighteen months' tour, which has been characterised throughout with pleasant associations. The company leaves for Sydney to-day. The death is announced from Auckland of Mr. Robert Rew, the well known merchant. Mr. Rew, who had been in ill-health for spme time, underwent a serious operation on Saturday last. Ht. leaves a widow, four sons, and two daughters. The elder daughter is Mrs. W. F. Bisset, of Wellington. A Press Association telegram fsom Auckland states that Mr. A. W. Hogg, who arrived at Auckland from the Waikato last evening, was accorded what he described as the greatest reception of his life. On alighting from the train he was met by a Reception Committee formed by the Labour party and the Garrison Band, specially engaged for the occasion. My. Hogg was escorted through a large crowd of people to a carriage. A procession, headed by the band and supported by banners, was then formed, and this proceeded up Queen-street and back by side streets to the Star Hotel, where Mr. and Mrs. Hogg have taken up their quarters. In returning thanks from the balcony of the hotel, Mr. Hogg said that he was quite cheerful under the altered circumstances that had taken place since he last visited Auckland.