PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. E. Tregear, Secretary for Labour, is visiting Auckland. Mr. Justice Chapman proceeded to the West Coast to-day to take the Supreme Court sittings at Westport. Judge It. W. Jones, of the Native Appellate Court, has gone to Invercargill to preside over a sitting of the court in that town. Mr. _E. S. Baldwin, of the firm, of Baldwin and Rayward, is oonfined to bed at his house at Kelburne with a sharp attack of pleurisy. When Lord Islington goes to Feilding for his official visit on Wednesday next, he is to be tasen for a short motor tour of the borough and given a glimpse of, the surrounding country. Before starting on the usual deliveries this morning, the local letter-carriers passed a resolution expressive 'of their deep sympathy with Mr. C. J. Russell, for many years a member of the st s iff, on the death of his -wife. The senior sorter (Mr. J. Harris), in moving thafc a letter of condolence be sent, referred to many good qualities of the deceased lady. The outcome of the discussion in th« Dunedin City Council as to the appointment of a town clerk was that the position be advertised at a salary of £600 per annum. Several amendments were moved in the clause in the Finance Committee's report advocating that the appointment be made at £600 a year, but all were lost. Miss E. M. PoJden has been appointed sister-in-charge of the new Infectious Diseases Hospital. She is at present ab Rotorua, and was formerly at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. She will take charge next weak, and as soon as arrangements are made for staffing the new hospital, the patients will be removed! thither and the old building will be demolished. Councillors Frost and Smith, the representatives of the Wellington City Council for the Tramways Conference opening here on Bth December, con tinued their mission of inspecting oth,er tramway systems by a departure to Auckland yesterday. They have with them Mr. M. Cable, assistant tramways engineer, who went with the councillors on the Southern visit just concluded. As a result of the disqualification clause in the Municipal Corporations Act, and the refusal of the Legislative Council to pass the Hon. J. B. Dalian's amendment excluding newspaper directors, Councillor Barr (who is on the directorate of the Otago Daily Times) will cease to be a member of the Dunedin City Council as from the 31st inst., telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent. At a largely-attended meeting of Christchurch citizens, it was decided to ask Mr. J. D. Hall to contest the Mayoralty of that city, and a requisition to him was signed by all present, and is being largely signed by others. Mr Hall, who ia a son of the late Sir John Hall, has filled several public positions, and is at present chairman of the Fire Board. Probably the present Mayor, Mr. Alison, will also be a candidate, telegrapfis our Christchurch correspondent. Major G. Gore Gillon, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, Auckland, formerly of Wellington, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Captain C. B. Harton, of the Post and Telegraph Rifles, Wellington, having passed an examination under the Central Board of Military Examination, has been granted a certificate for the rank of major. Captain A. R. Hislop, V.D., retired list, has had conferred upon him ! the rank of major. Major Geo. Crawshaw has been transferred from the New Zealand militia to the active list. The Rev. R. S. Gray, well known as a prohibition leader, will leave Christchurch on December 15. He has held the pastorate of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church for over eight years, and feels that the strain of the work necessitates a change. The church has, therefore, granted iiim furlough for nine* months. Mr. and Mrs. Gray will visit Australia and then proceed to India to inspect and report upon the mission work that is being done by the New Zealand ~<iptist Churches in Brahmanbaria and Chandpur. They will then go to England and America, where they will represent the New Zealand churches at the Pan-Baptist Congress, to be lield next year in Philadelphia*.