PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. E. W. Hunt has been elected a member of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. ' The Hon. D. Buddo arrived in Wanganul last night, and received a number of deputations. The Hons. G. Fowlds and D. Buddo iire expected back in Wellington from the North on Friday. The Revs. Canon Mayne, C. H. Garland, and P. W. Fairclough were passengers from South by the Maori this morning. Miss Mary Richmond, who had been absent through illnelss, yesterday resumed her seat on the Board of Trustees of the Benevolent Institution. The .Hon. Dr. Findlay left for the North by the Main Trunk express this morning, to open a new courthouse at Cambridge and a new post ' office at Hnntly. Messrs. J. R. Blair (retiring director) and R. C. Kirk were elected by ballot directors of the- Wellington Wdollen Co. Messrs. Kember and Sons (retiring) and •E W. Hunt wer_e elected auditors. Mr. W.. R. Roulston, of the Lambton Station railway staff, was yesterday evening presented by his colleagues with a handsome marble clock as^ a mark of esteem on the occasion of his approaching marriage. I From Auckland, the death is announced of Mr. G. F. E. Hindmarshr a grandson of the first Governor of South Australia, and brother of Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh, solicitor, of' Wellington. He was a man of independent means, and .was noted for his deeds of benefaction. Appointments under the Wellington Education Board are announced as follow : Petone, headmaster, TVIr. William Foster; first assistant, Mr. Eustace King; second assistant mistress, Miss Boss. Newtown, infant mistress, Miss Dowdeswell. Kaitoke, sole teacher, Miss M'Gregor. Mr. G. H. Lloyd, Government Land Valuer, who was located in Woodville for some years past, but who was retrenched some months ago, is being kept on by the department (states the Examinei). Mr. Lloyd has been appointed to the Taranaki district, with his headquarters at Hawera. The Rev. J. Collison, who has been in charge of the Cambridge circuit of the Primitive Methodist Church for the past few months, intends, says the Waikato Independent, retiring from ministerial work, owing to the state of his health. The executive of the connexion are negotiating with the Rev. J. Foston, of Eltham, as a successor to Mr. Collison. Dr. Newman, speaking at the Christian Endeavour Convention last night, paid a striking tribute to the noble work of the late Mrs. Hislop. She had, he said, maintained tho highest ideal of civic government during the last four years. Wherever there was wrong, or wretchedness, or poverty, there was Mrs. Hislop to be found trying to bring relief. She had spared neither time nor pains in her efforts to help the poor, and, wherever good could be done, she was ready to do it. That was the modern ideal of civic government. The remains of the late Mrs. Bradey were interred yesterday in the Pahautanui Cemetery, alongside those of many of the old settlers who subdued that wilderness in the early and troublesome times. In fact, the cemetery itself--a prettily, situated spot on a hill overlooking the township, the Porirua harbour, and a large stretch of country — was originally the site of an old Maori pi, and the remains of the rifle pits can be distinctly traced even yet. Thero was a large concourse of relatives and settlers from all parts of the district, among those present being Mr. R. Stuart, of Jndgeford (a brother of deceived, bearing his 86 years with remarkable ease), and Mr. H. 0. Atkinson, clerk of the Hutt County Council. The ltev. Mr. Petrie, of JohnEonville, officiated at the church and at the graveside. Among many beautiful floral trib- j utcs was one from the Wellington Central Club, of v hich Mr. F. Bradey is a member.