PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. J. O'Shea, City Solicitor, return_ed from a visit to Sydney to-day. Mr. and Mrs. George Winder left last night 011 a trip to the Cold Lakes. Professor Laby, of Victoria College, returned from Sydney by the Moeraki to-day. __ The Hon. G. Fowld£T"wuT blTenter^ tamed at dinner at Bellamy's by Sir Joseph Ward. Mr. Justice Denniston, who has been on a visit io England, returned by the Moeraki from Sydney to-day. Mr. C. Redman, late sub-editor of the Wairarapa Daily Times, has been appointed managing-editor of the Waitemata Post. Mr. A. H. Holmes, Clerk of the ! Magistrate's Court, is back again in Wellington, aiter having spent. a month's 1 holiday in WairaJcei. Among passengers leaving per lonic for England to-morrow are Ma*, and Mrs. M. Myers, Mr. Ale:: Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Waymouth, and Miss Waymouth (of Christehruch),. and Dr. Guerin. Mr. Robert T. Turnbull, who has arranged to pay another visit to Europe, will leave Wellington by the Tongariro on 9th March. He expects to be away from New Zealand for at least nine months. The Commandant of the Forces (Major-General Godley, C.8.), accompanied by his staff officer, LieutenantColonel Burnett-Smith, D.5.0., will leave for the South to-night on a visit of inspection. Mr. Charles Wilson, Chief Parliamentary Librarian, who has been confined to bed with, severe indisposition since Saturday, is now much better^ and hopes to be able to attend at his office again next Friday. The following nurses lia^ve been appointed senior nurses on the hospital staff : — C. Lambert, H. Temple-Brown, M. E. Hobbs, A. M. Buttle, F. R. Robertson, A. Brodie, C. D. Jenkins, K. ¦ Carter, R. Henderson, J. James, and A. Holmwood, -who have all passed the final hospital examination, as well as the State examination. _ Mr. J. Barr, a member of the Bulletin newspaper staff and a former Wellington journalist, arrived from Sydney to-day. Mr. Barr is president of the New South Wales Journalists' Institute, and, as such, it is proposed by his Wellington confreres to "entertain him at dinner, under the auspices of the Wellington branch of the Journalists' Institutß, on Saturday week. Following the "field" changes of the Salvation Army in th& North Island, a number oi transfers of officers will shortly take effect. They include :—: — Adjutant Marshall, from Dannevirke- to 'Petone; Adjutant Green, from Petone to Dannevirke; Adjutant Wellington, from New Plymouth to Newton (Auckland) ; Adjutant Styles, from Hamilton to Hawera ; Ensign Hultquist, from Devonport to Feilding; Ensign Avenel, from Feilding to Masterton. Sir Joseph Ward will leave to-morrow morning for Stratford, where, at the request of the residents, he will deliver a political address. On Friday he will visit Kaponga, and Inglewood, going &n to New Plymouth in the evening, and speaking again there. Thence Sir Joseph, will go on to Auckland, and give an address- at Devonport on Saturday night. On Monday he will be present at a bd,ncuiet in connection with the Mining Engineers' Conference, returning to Wellington about the end of next vieek. An old and respected resident of Wellington for the past thirty-nine years, Mr. Thomas Marshment, of 70a Ade-"laide-road, died yesterday in the hospital, aged sixty. For fifteen or twenoy years, and up till about two years ago, deceased carried on business as a brickmaker and manufacturer. He leaves a widow and ten children— five sons and five daughters— of whom eight are married. The lats Mr. Marshment was a native of Wiltshire, England, and came out to Wellington in the Forfarshire. After a year's absence from the Dominion, Mr. Justice Denniston and Mrs. Dsnniston, who have been Home, on a health-recruiting touiv, returned to Wellington to-day by the Moeraki. Durin» the tour, which included visits to Sco£ ! land and Ireland, and a short trip to i Paris, Judge Denniston studiously refrained from anything in the way of business, an exception being when he gave evidence before the Royal Commission investigating divorce matters, particulars of which have> appeared in the New Zealand press. The commission has been sitting £. long time now, and in his Eoncur'6 opinion, will continue its investigation for a considerable period yet. Representatives of all classes of society are being examined, and the collection of evidence promises to be exceedingly bulky. Miss, Dennieton returned to Xew Zealand about a fortnight ago. His Honour, who leaves for Christchurch in a couple of days, and opens the Timara session next, Wednesday, expressed himself o<s feeling in excellent health. Mrs. Denniet-on, too, is very well. 3