PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Sir Joseph Ward left this morning for Stratford, where he will deliver a political speech to-night. Mr. Henry Horton, one of the pro- | prietors of the New Zealand Herald, , Auckland, is visiting Wellington. Mr. 'W. C. Kensington, Undersecretary for Lands, returned this morning fropi a departmental visit to the South Island. Mr. E. C. Gannaway, Assistant-Post-master, Wellington, left for invercargill last evening, to relieve the Chief Postmaster there, who is on annual leave. Miss W. L. Boys-Smith, who has been appointed an Otago University lecturer, arrived by the Athenic yesterday afternoon, and proceeded South in the ingMr. John Fuller, the well-known entrepreneur, who has not visited his Southern houses for two years, leaves Auckland on Saturday for a tour of the Dominion. Mr. Russell, inspector of the principal goldfield in Queensland, arrived' in Wellington yesterday on his way to the conference of mining engineers which will open at Auckland on Monday next. • .Mr. B. A. Heinemann, son of the late Dr. Heinemann, Dunedin, was a. passenger from Capetown by the Athenic yesterday. He is chairman of directors of Emanuel Reynhardt and Co., Johannesburg. Mr. M. G. Jessett, vice-president of the Navy League (London), arrived yesterday by the Athenic. Primarily hereon a holiday, the visitor will acquaint himself with the progress of the iNavy League movement in the Dominion. Major-General GodTey and his staffiOfficer (Captain Spencer-Smith) and Lient. -Colonel Burnefct-Staart (Director of Military Operations) left for Dunedin last night, and will return to Wellington about the middle of next week. Mr. Horace Savill (Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line) was a passenger from London by the Athenie yesterday. He is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Savill. Mr. G. Faulkner, a nephew of Lord Islington, was also a member of the party. Mr. S. Brice, who has occupied the position of warehouse manager to tile Wellington Woollen Company for the past five years, has resigned to enter into business on his own account. Mr. Brice is leaving for England at an early date. The death in her eighty-seventh year, o' Mrs. Susan Robertson, widow of the late Mr., Peter Robertson, of Auckland, is reported. Mrs. Robertson, who was a native of Glasgow, came out to New Zealand by the ship Duchess of Argyle, in the year 1842. At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council last night, Mr. Lewin, of Lyttelton, was appointed Town Clerk, in . succession to Mr. R. W. Richards. There were thirty-eight applicants for the position, which carries x a salary of £500 per annum. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie left this morning for Dannevirke, on business connected with public works in that district He will return to Wellington tomorrow, and leave on Saturday for Auckland, in order to be present at the conference of mining engineers. j A Press Association telegram from i Dunedin state D : — Dr. Pickerill advises that Messrs. A. J. Hansen, C. E. Hercus, and W. S. Seed have passed their final, or second professional, examination for the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. These are the first graduates in dental surgery in. New Zealand. The Southland News reports the death of Mr. Murdoch M'Kenzie, at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. M'Kenzie's career was a typically colonial one. He arrived in New Zealand in 1863, and j secured a farm in Southland. Hd then want to the West Coast goldfields, and was fairly successful. He was after--wards contracting in the Tapanui district, and was employed on Waimea Station. Then* ho commenced storekeeping in Invercarglll, and was subsequently a carpenter and builder. In his young days he was a keen sportsman.