PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 75, 31 March 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Sir W J Steward was a passenger from South by the Victoria this morn"S- . ... Mr W. A. Cross has been appointed a lay raider for the parish of Lower Hutt. , The Hon. D. Buddo is due to be back in Wellington from the South at the end of the week. The Hon. G. Fowlds will leave Auckland to-morrov for Gisborne, where he will open a new maternity home. Mr. T. Ballinger was last night elected* chairman of the Wellington Technical Education Board for the ensuing year. Pastor Swinerd left Feilding to-day fo"- his new pastorate, Oxford, Isorth Canterbury (telegraphs our FeUding correspondent). The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, is at present accompanying the Governor, who is paying his farewell visit to Otago and Southland. _ | Mr P Hallv, Conciliation Commis- ■ sioner, leaves for the West Coast to-day > on business connected with two mining disputes at Brnnnerton. Mr. Herbert Dix, formerly of Wei-! lington, passed through the city to-day on his way to Napier., where he is, to manage Messrs. Hawkins and Rome* business. On his return from attending the \ Governor, Sir Joseph Ward intend* making a tour of Central Otago, with » view to arranging for the commencement of irrigation works, and discussing railway matters (states a Press Association telegram). Major Erl Johnston, eldest son of the Hon. C. J- Johnston, M.L.C., Wellington, who has been granted furlough from his regiment (the North Stafford- i shire), in India, arrived from Sydney •by the Warrimoo to-day, accompanied by his wife, who ia a daughter of Mr. A. G. Fell, of this city. Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand.- Employers' will represent*the employers before the Arbitration Court in the "Taupiri miners' dispute on sth April. He will subsequently take part in the Conciliation Council proceedings at Gisborne in connection with the drivers' dispute. Mr. Harry Lauder Duncan, Deputy-Postmaster-General of Madras (a cousin of Mr. George Wilson, of Wellington), was a passenger from Sydney by the Warrimoo to-day. He is accompanied by his wife and son. Mr. Duncan <i father, the late Captain Duncan, entered the Honourable East India Company's service when a young man, and remained in India for the rest of his j life. He died at the age of 92, over 70 years of which he spent in India During the whole of that time he never , went out of the country. Mr. Harry I Duncan, who was born in India, has ' been granted a year's leave of absence , for the benefit of his health, and in- j tends to spend about three month* m New Zealand. In all probability his son will remain in this country with a view to becoming a farmer.