PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. Dr. Collins, M.L.C., returned from the South yesterday. The Hon. G. Fowlds will open the fifth annual show at' Levin on Wednesday next. Judge Giliedder, of the Native Land Court, will .'save for riastings to-mor-row, to preside at a sitting of the court in that town. Major T. W. M'Donald, Officex Commanding the Public Schools Cadets, was a passenger from the South by the Maori yesterday. The death is announced (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent) of Mr. D. M. Spedding, from heart failure. He was an auctioneer in Dunedin. over forty years. Major-General Godley arrived at Christchurch on Saturday, and attended a church parade of the garrison troops yesterday morning. Op Saturday he paid a visit to Lincoln College. The Hon. James Carroll arrived at Gisborrie on Saturday, and will remain there for about a fortnight, during which time he will Trisit the railway and other public works in progress in the district. The Hon. J. Drysdale Brown, Attor-ney-General for Victoria, who has been on a visit to his brother, Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., left Napier to join the Maheno at Auckland, and returns to Sydney to-night. Mr. C. E. Darnell, of Masterton, has signified his intention to offer himself for re-election to the Wellington Harbour Board. The elections take place in April, on the same day as the municipal elections. Under the new Act the Wairarapa district is entitled to two members. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Typographical Union on Saturday evening, it was resolved to forward a letter to Mrs L~yon and family, sympathising with them in their recent bereavement. The secretary was directed to refer to the good lelations that existed between the late Mr. Lyon and the union when he was a member of the printing firm of Lyon and Blar. This evening, the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward), who is at present in Auckland, will attend the dinner in connection with the conference of the Australian Institute of Mining Engineers. The remainder of the week will be spent in a motor-car tour of various country districts, extending as far as Rotorua. Sir Joseph Ward will deliver an address at Pukekohe to-morrow evening. Mrs. W. T. Bond, an old and esteemed Nelsonian, and wife of one of the proprietors of the Colonists newspaper, died last night (states a_ Press Association message), after being three years ran invalid. Mrs. Bond arrived in Nelson nearly fifty years ago. She leaves a family of four — two sons (Percy, partner of his father, and J. H. G. Bond, general traffic manager for the Union Company, Dunedin) and two daughters (unmarried residents of Nelson). Mi. William Donaldson, an old and highly Tespected resident of Masterton, is dead ; aged 73 years. Deceased, who had been ailing for some considerable time, camo to the Dominion about 26 years ago (writes our correspondent). He carried on businesses at Christchurch and Dunedin for a number of years,and seven yeaTs ago he came to Mastorton, where he took over a. business as land, commission, and insurance agent, and which he has carried on ever since. Miss Katie Donaldson, of Rakaia, near Christchurch, is the only surviving member of the late gentleman-' s family.