PERSONAL MATTEKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTEKS.

His Excellency the- Governor and Lady Islington arrived from the south by theMaori yesterday. Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, M.P., left for a month's holiday trip to Australia on Friday. • The Hoa. 0. M. Lake, who is at E resent at Rotorua, will arrive in Welngton. on Wednesday afternoon. The Hon. J. Canroll, who Las been, spending a few weeks a>t Gisbowie, is I jdue back in Wellington, to-morrow. Mr. Joachim, general manager of the Westport Coal Company, arrived in Wellington by the Mapourika yesterday. Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward, the Hon. J. A. Millar and the Hon. G. Fowlds arrived from the south yesterday. Mr. A. Simpson, Official Assignee, has returned from an inspection of his subofSces "in the Nelson, Marlborough, and.' iWestland districts. Dr. A. M'Artaur. S.M., returned on Saturday evening from Auckland, where ho has been conducting a sitting of the. Railway Appeal Board. Mr. Farquharson, the third New Zealand Rhodes scholar, has been appointed petrologist to the Westralkn Government, states a Danedin Press Association telegram. Mr. Charles Gannaway, Chief Postmaster at Wellington, who has been in charge of the Invercargill Post Office during the absence of the Chief Postmaster there, has returned to Wellington, and resumed duty. The Bey. J. R. p Bufgin, a member af the pionesr missionary party to Hausaismd, occupied the pulpit at the pro-Cathedra-1 last evening, when h© gar* an interesting address on. mission work in Hausaland and in Africa generally. The Rot. George W. J. Spenoe, the new president of the Methodist Conference, is one of the- most widely-known ministers of the Church in Now Zealand, his labouis having extended over j thirty-one years. He was born at a email town about fourteen miles from Belfast, a-nd in 1879 was transferred from the Irish Conference to the* New Zealand Conference, arriving at Lyttelton in September of that year. Mr. Spence was first appointed as a proha>tioner to Northern Wairoa, and afterwards to Auckland. During his ministry in New Zeatend he had had ?astoral charge of circuits at Auckland, fepieT, Oama-ru, and Danedin, arid during the past two year's ho lias beeoi stationed at Palmerston Nort-b, and is superintendent of that circuit.