PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. C. B. Morison, who has been on an extended visit to tho Old Country, has returned to Wellington." Mr. George Toogood, of the legal firm of Field, Luckie, and Toogood, Wellington, returned to Wellington last evening from Sydney, via Auckland. Messrs. G. H. Dixon, G. C. Fache, and G. H. Mason will represent the New Zealand Rugby Union at the football conference at Sydney. They leave by the Ulimaroa to-morrow. A Press Association telegram from Hastings states -.—The Premier will arrive here on Saturday, and open the new post office on Monday. There will be a conversazione in the evening. Mr. Horace G. Weber, who has been appointed organist and choirmaster of Napier Cathedra] in succession to Mr. H. Gregson, who is leaving shortly, is at present a resident of Semaphore, South Australia. The late Mrs. Sait, who died at Johnsonville last week, and was buried at Nelson, was for a long time headmistress of the Girls' State School in the latter town. It is proposed to furnish a memorial of the deceased lady with funds subscribed by her old pupils. On the occasion of his departure for Port Chalmers, after twelve years' serI vice in the Presbyterian chage of Havelock North, the Rev. Alexander Whyte i was presented with a cheque for £87 10s, and Mrs. Whyte with three silver flower vases, subscribed for by the parishioners. Mr. Charles James Hocking, a student of the Wellington Technical School, has been awarded a bronze medal by the City and Guilds of London Institute. He was placed, fifth in the examination in plumbing, ordinary grade, competing against candidates from every part of the Empire. Dr. Bernard C. Beale died on Sunday, at 4he advanced age of seventynine years. Dr. Beale, who was one of Auckland's oldest and most widelyknown citizens, was a native of London, and in 1849 was appointed medical officer to the London Board of Health. Later he practised in the West ladips>, and m 1.861 came to New Zealand. He was appointed surgeon to the Nelson Hospital, and three years later went to Auckland. Mrl and Mrs. W. A. Fordham, sen., of Kilbirnie, are celebrating their golden wedding to-day, at the residence of their son-in-law, Mr. J. P. Englebretsen. Mr. and* Mrs. Fordham were married in Middlesex, England, fifty years ago to-day, and arrived in New Zealand, with their son and daughter, in 1876, in the good old Shaw-Sayill ship Avalanche, which on the following voyage to New Zealand was run down in the English Channel by a barque named the Forest Queen, with great loss of life. The old couple, who are in excellent health, are the recipients of some handsome presents and many, congratulatory telegrams and letters from all parts of New Zealand. j The Rev. H. C. Pollock, canon residential of Gloucester Cathedral, who arrived i com England yesterday, is a precursor of the Anglican General Mission, which is to visit New Zealand in August. He will have associated with him the Rev. A. H. Kennedy, who is due to arrive on Tuesday The tworeverend gentlemen have come to stir up interest in the mission, and generally to make preparations, and their arrival has been timed so as to enable them to meet the members of the Anglican Synod, which opened here to-day. Canon Pollock will spend six weeks in the North Island and six weeks in the South Island, and the general body of missionaries will spend three months in New Zealand. Canon Pollock will preach at St. Peter's Church on Sunday morning. The new Chief Justice of New South Wales, Dr. W. P. Culleu, K.C. M.L.C., is (states the Sydney Telegraph) a graduate of Sydney University, taking the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws, after a distinguished academic career. He was called to the Bar in 1883, and quickly won success, more particularly in the Equity Court, and some .time back "took silk." He has long been recognised as one of the soundest lawyers in the Commonwealth. A keen student 'of law in all its phases, he has taken high rank at the Equity Bar, as well as before the State Full Court and the High Court. He seldom appeared on the Common Law side, but his argument before a Bench of Judges was always characterised by force, lucidity, and logic. Dr. Cullen entered' political life in 1891. At; the general elections of that year he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for Camden. In 1894 he was defeated and was appointed to tne Legislative Council on Bth August, 1895. In the Assembly Dr. Cullen was regarded as a and concise speaker, an acquisition to tho debating power of the House. The new Chief Justice has alwayo been a keen university man. First as undergraduate, and through various stages as graduate, Fellow of the Senate, and now ViceChancel lor, he has proved a true and loyal son.