PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. J. L. Hordern, of Sydney, is on a •visit to Wellington. Mr. W. D. Snowball, M.R.C.V.S., is gazetted an inspector under the Stock Act. Bishop Neligan and Mrs. Neligan re-> turned to Auckland by the Victoria last night. Mr. M. D. Flaherty has been appointed manager of St. Mary's Industrial School, Nelson. Sir Joseeph Ward, who is still indisposd, has postponed his departure for the South until the beginning of next week. Messrs. F. W. Connell. and M. H. M'Kellar, two Palmerstbn residents, left there yesterday on a tour of the East and England, via New Guinea, Manila, and Japan. Mr. A. Wheeler, late chief clerk of the Union Company's Suva branch, arrived by the Navua yesterday, and goes -on to Dunedin to take up a position at headquarters. The Rev. J. D. M'Kenzie and Mi. A. M'Neur (Presbyterian) and Mr. A.. J. Black (People's Mission, Auckland) are fazetted officiating ministers under the larriage Act. Captain D. R. Menzies, of the active list, has been detailed for duty as pay end quartermaster to the Wellington Division, New Zealand Garrison Artil- j lery Volunteers. Mr. J. H. M'Alister, private secretary to the Hon. A. T. N ,ata, has been appointed private secretary to the Hon. R. M'Kenzie in place of Mr. 0. EMatthews, who becomes chief clerk of the Police Department. The position of Chief Draughtsman of the Land and Survey Department, vacated by the resignation of Mr. John Davis, will not be filled until after the end of the financial year. Meanwhile Mr. H. T. M'Cardell is carrying out the duties. The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Longservice Medal has been awarded to Lieut. -Cokmel R. H. Rhodes, of the North Canterbury Mounted Rifles; to Lieut. -Colonel G. S. Chaytor, Medical Corps; and Lieut. -Colonel R. Snow, Active List (unattached). Archdeacon Devoy, Dean M'Kenna, of Masterton, and Father O'Shea, VicarGeheral, will .leave Wellington for Timaru to-night, where the . foundationstone of the new Catholic Church there will be laid on Saturday by the Bishop of Christchurch, Dr. Grimes. » The death of Mr. W. H. Ingram, an old resident o£ Hokitika, occurred suddenly last night. While having his dinner Mr. Ingram suddenly collapsed, and shortly afterwards expired. Deceased was an old pioneer, and a jeweller by trade, and claimed the distinction of having made the first watch ever manufactured in the colonies. He was Eiventyfour years of age. Sir. J. R. Campbell, of Glasgow, the Union Company's superintendent for the United Kingdom, arrived from Suva by the Navua yesterday afternoon. He travelled to Australia by the Canadian mail route, thence proceeded to Fiji by the Makura, and joined the Navua for Auckland and Wellington. Mr. Campbell goes on to Dunedin by the Mokoia this evening. On severing his connection with the detective staff yesterday, a presentation of a case of pipes and a tobacco pouch was made tt» Mr. G. H. Williams by his fellow detectives at the Lambtonquay police station. Eulogistic reference was made by Chief-Detective Broberg'to the work and popularity of Mr. Williams, who left for Blenheim to-day, to take over the management of the Masonic Hotel. It is regarded as practically certain that the Rev. J. Jolly, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, will take up the call to St. Stephen's, Auckland (telegraphs our Palmerston correspondent). The call is to be considered by the Wanganui Presbytery next week, and in view thereof, Mr. Jolly's congregation at St. Andrew's has resolved to raise no objection to his transference to a wider sphere, and has expressed its opinion that the flourishing condition of the various church organisations in Palmerston is cniefly due to Mr. Jolly's faithful service. > Among those who arrived by the Marama, from Melbourne and Hobart, this morning were General Sir J. Dorward, a retired army officer,. who is making a tour of New Zealand ; Sir George Davis and Lady Davis, of Tasmania, who are proceeding to Rotorua; Archdeacon Luckman and Mrs. Luckman, of Melbourne, who are also on a holiday tour ; and the Rev. James Gibb, D.D., of St. John's Church, Wellington, who has been on a visit to the South. The steamer's passengers lo the Bluff included Miss Talbot, sister of Sir Reginald Talbot, a former Governor of Victoria. She is also making a healthtour through New Zealand.