PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. R. M'Kenzie returned to Wellington from the South this morning. The -Surveyor-General (Mr. J. Strauchon) is on an official visit to Hawkes Bay. The Hon. D. Buddo returned to "Wellington from the South fiSs morning. • Mr. Horace Baker, of Adelaide, has been .appointed organist and choirmaster of Napier Cathedral. Mr. J. Cameron, organising secretary of the New Zealand Anti-Asiatic League, is on a visit to Napier. The Prime Minister will leave for Hawkes Bay on Saturday, and open a new post office at Hastings on the Monday aftei. The Hon. Dr. Findlay, who has been spending a brief holiday in the South, is expected back in Wellington at the end of the week. Mr. W. C. Drake, postmaster at Petone, is at present spending his annual holiday at Auckland. Mr. G. H. Cates is acting in his stead. Mr. C. E. Adams, M.Sc, of the head office of the Lands and Survey Department, has been elected a Fellow 01 the Royal Astronomical Society. Mr. C. W. Govett, of New Plymouth, who has been on a trip to Australia, arrived back in Wellington by this morning's steamer from Sydney. Mr. E. C. Barton, of Brisbane, son of the late Judge Barton, of the Native Land Court, is now on a visit to WeW lington. He leaves for Australia to* morrow. Hon. Islay M'Owan, of Fiji, and Mrs. and Miss M'Owan, who arrived from Auckland by the Main Trunk railway last evening, are staying with Mr. andMrs R. M. Simpson, of Wellington-ter-race. Mr. W. H. Morton, city engineer, is due at the Bluff from Melbourne next Monday. He intends to spend a day or two in the Southern Lakes district before coming' on to Wellington. The Hon. A. R. Guinness, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is due in Wellington by the Main Trunk exgress this afternoon. He and Mrs. uinness have been spending their holiday at Rotorua. Mr. John Hugh Murray, a pioneer settler of the Waituna district, and wh© Recently retired from farming is dead, 'states a Press Association telegram. Mr. Murray lived in Feilding, where he owned considerable property. Lieutenant-Colonel James Frederick Stuart-Menteath, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Wellington to-day, from Sydney, on a visit to these parts. He came to New Zealand from England by way of Europe through the Rhineland and Italy, and thence on to Australia. Mr. Norman Churton, at one time connected with the Christchurch Cathedral choir, and who now resides in Melbourne, is on a visit to Wellington, after a short sojourn in the South. He will leave in a day or two for Melbourne. He says music is flourishing there. He himself has sung a good deal at concerts. The friends of Mr. A. B. Keyworth, of the local staff of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., Limited, will be pleased to learn that news has been received by mail to the effect that he was recently operated upon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital^ London, for the ailment that caused him to go to England, and that the operation —a difficult one — was in every way successful. At the time the mail left Mr. Key worth was making splendid progress towards recovery. f The position of Inspector of Telegraph .Offices is to be filled by Mr. H. Harrington, late officer in cnarge at Wellington, in place of Mr. J. Bollard, who, as stated in the Post a few days ago, has resigned on account of ill- . health. Other changes in the department are as under : —Mr. W. E. Chisholm, assistant telegraph engineer, Wellington, to be telegraph engineer, Nelson; Mr. R. M. Baird, electrician, Wet lipgton, to be assistant telegraph engineer, Wellington; Mr. G. T. Kemp, assistant electrician, Wellington, and Mt. E. P. Cowles, clerk in the local telegraph engineer's office, to be subtelegraph engineers, Wellington; Mr. R. Crow, clerk in the superintendent of electric lines' office, replaces Mr. Cowles on the telegraph engineer's staff, and Mr. L. L. Macey, of New Plymouth, succeeds Mr. Crow in the office of the superintendent of electric lines. The following transfers of Salvation Army officers have been decided upon : —Staff-Captain Lonnie, from Wellington to Sydney; Adjutants Lamberton and Feltham, from Wanganui to Wellington South; Adjutant Gunn,'from Auckland to Wellington; Captain Larsen, from Newton to Taihape; ' Captain Gibbs, from Levin to Thames; Adjutant Greene, from Masterton to Petone ; Adjutant Hey wood, from Invercargill to • Palmerston North; Captain Keucke, from Taihape, and Lieutenant E. S. Nicholson, from Onehunga to Pahiatua; Captain Johnson and Lieutenant Chalker. from Pahiatua to Otaki; Captain Calcott, from Patea, and Lieutenant Brown, from Taihape to Ohakune; Lieutenant Bromley, from Ohakune to Opotiki; Captain Adams, from Carterlon to Norsewood; Ensign Wellington and Lieutenant M'Kinnon, from Wellington South to New Plymouth; Captain N. Adams, from Onehunga to Mas* terton; Captain Simpson, from Petone to Levin; Captain Avenel, from Parnell to Feilding; Captain Rose, from Apiti to Carterton; Captain Trenwith, from • Rotorua to Ashhurst; Captain Shearer, from Norsewood to Apiti.