PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. F. Black, A.M.1.E.E., has returned from Napier, which place he has visisted in connection with the installation of a tramway system. Mr. John M'Lean, who has established a fishing station at Kaingaroa, Chathamsv returned to Wellington by the Nora Niven yesterday, and will remain here for some time. On Wednesday last Mrs. Waring, widow of the late Mr. George Herbert Waring, a resident of Kaiapoi for about fifty years, died in Christchurch, at the age of 84 years. Mr. A. Bowell, of the fitting staff of the Gas Company, was presented, on the eve of his marriage, with a dinner and tea set of china. The gift was a memento from all departments. His Excellency the Governor received the following guests at a dinner party last evening -.—The Hon. G. and Mrs. Fowlds, the Hon. C. J- Johnston, M.L.C., and Mrs. Johnston, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Chaytor, Mr. A. d& 8., Mrs. and Miss Brandon, Mr. and Mrs Chatfield, Mr. and Mrs. H. Beauchamp, Mr. C. and Miss Gore, Mr. A. Fell, and Mr. A. Cooper. Regarding the vacancy in the Christchurch ofßce of the Department of Agriculture, caused by the death of bhe district agent, Mr. A. Callcott, the Hon. T. Mackenzie stated yesterday at Chrifltehurch that he had appointed Mr. A. E. Rowden, who had been in charge of the Wanganui ofSce for the past eighteen months, to the position. Mr. Hooper, of the Wellington office, would succeed <Mt. Rowden at Wanganui. It is cabled from Brisbane that the Steamship Eastern, from Japan to Sydney, is still ashore on the Salamander Bank at the entrance to Moreton Bay. Private advices state that passengers with their baggage had been taken from the stranded liner by a harbour steamer to Brisbane without difficulty. Among the jpassengers for New Zealand are Mr. and jMes. Louis Blundell, and Mrs. Nelson.taod daughter, who will continue their j •journey to Sydney by train. j At last night's meeting of the Wei- j . lington Technical Education Board the resignation of Mr. C. A. Lawrence, who for the past eleven years has been instructor of classes in building construe- j tion and architecture, was accepted with regret. Mr. Lawrence has found it necessary to take tiiis step owing to pressure of business. Pending a further report from £he director of the school, the question of appointing an instructor was deferred. It was reported by Mr. La Trobe that owing to dulness in the building trade the classes in architecture and building construction were not large at present.