PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 73, 29 March 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

_ «—« — The Hon. M. Beehan, M.L.C., is on a visit to Wellington. The Hon. G. Fowlds (Minister of Education) will opeu the new High School at Gis-borne next week. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) vras a passenger for the South by the jlaori last night. He will return to [Wellington at the end of next week. Mr. A. J. Clunie, formerly second officer of the Mapourika, who met with an accident at Westport some weeks ago, is reported to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery. His Excellency the Governor will pay a farewell visit to the Wairarapa next month. He has arranged to airive ati Masterton by the morning train on 20th April, and will leave for Eketahuna at 5.45^ p.m. the same day. Mr. Ivan E. Foot, of the Government Insurance Department, at Wellington, who came Home to consult opticians •with regard to his sight, has received the satisfactory assurance that it is better than he feared, writes our London correspondent. Archbishop Redwood leaves for Christchurch this evening to confer with | Bishops Grimes and V«rdon in regard to the appointment of a successor to the late Bishop Leuihan, of Auckland. The Rev. Father Cleary, of Dunedin, has already been nominated by the clergy of the diocese as "dignissimus" for the yacant see. The death is reported of an old identity, Mr. Emanuel . Ryder, of Dockstreet, in his 80th y&r. He was a colonist of fifty -three years' standing, having arrived in Nelson, from England, by the barque Oriental in 185*7. There he spent twenty years. In 1876 he moved with his family to Wellington, where he has since resided. He is survived by his .widow, six children, nineteen grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. The Post's London correspondent understands it is not improbable that Mr. Alfred P. Graves, the celebrated leader of the Irish Literary and Musical Renaissance, will visit Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of giving a series of lectures either at the end of this year or in 1911. He will probably moot the matter to the Hibernian Societies in the Dominion to obtain their opinions before proceeding with the project. Mr. Graves, who is a brother of Lady Poore, wife of the Admiral on the Australasian station, is regarded as the greatest living authority on Irish music. Both alone and in collaboration with Dr. Charles V. Stanford, he has published a great deal ot Irish music.