PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Tho Hon. D. Buddo arrived from tbe South yesterday morning. Chief-Detective Broberg resumed duty this morning after a brief vacation. Mr. F. J. Pinny returned to Wellington on Saturday from a tour of the East Coast districts extending over a, month. The condition, of Mr. E. J. Biddiford, of the Hntt, is causing Ms relatives and friends some anxiety. He is at present at Longburn. The Hon. G. Fowlds will leave by the extra express on Wednesday for Auckland, where ho will spend tho Easter holidays. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie is due back in Wellington from Lhe Wairarapa on Thursday morning. He leaves the same . night for Blenheim, and on Saturday will open the Seddon-Ward section of the South Island Main Trunk railway. His Grace Archbishop Redwood gave an address at the Sacred Heart Churcn laet night on his recent visit to Australia, where lie was first assistant, at the consecration of the Very Rev. Dr. Clune as Bisnop of Perth. His Graeo celebrated hia seventy-second birthday on. Saturday. - The Rev. G. W. Roscher, M.A., Palmerston's new vicar, preached hie initial sermons to big congregations yesterday (telegraphs our local correspondent). Mr. " Reseller is a Cambridge man amd an old athlete, having been captain of liis college crew aaid also a keen footballer and boxer. Major-Genarsl Godley inspected the Westporfc District Territorials , (three companies.) on Saturday evening. Yesterday (states a Westport Press Association telegram) ho inspected the h^bonr works, and visited Ngatenvau and Denniston. Be left this morning for Reef ton. , By ■tie Hairroto to-morrow, Mr. W. 0. Nation, of Levin, and Mrs. W. E. Moore, of Wellington, president and secretary respectively of the National Association of Spiritualists, will leave for Dunedin to attend the aimaa-1 conference of the association. The delegates oi the Wellington association, are Mr. W. M'Lean (president), Mrs- E. C. Morris, and Miss M'Lean, who will leave for Dunedin on Wednesday. Passengers booked to leave ' by the Ara-wa on the 20th inst. for London include Bishop and Mrs. Wallis, Lady Mills, Mr. and Miss Simpson (of Marton), Mr. W. S. IniaaiL, Lfeutena-nt-Colonel Abbott, Lieutenants Burn and Garland, Captain R. St. J. Beere, and Captain Khngender. The two firstnamed officers are attached to the New Zealand Coronation Contingent, eleven other members of which are also booked by the same' vessel. Mr. Andrew Brennan, running shed foreman in the Government Railways at Eaekakariki, died at the Wellington Hospital on Saturday from an attack of dropsy. Deceased, who was 39 years , of age., had no relations in the Dominion. He was greatly esteemed by his fellow workers, and his funeral this afternoon was attended by several members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, members of the locomotive staff acting as pall bearers. The Rev. Father Alneworth officiated at the ■ graveside. Mr. Justice Cooper, accompanied by 'Mrs. and the Misses Cooper, leaves for Lyttelton on 27th April to connect with tho Federa-1-Houlder-Shire steamer Kent, which leaves for England on the following day. His Honour, who has not been Ito the Old Country since he arrived in New Zealand forty-six years ago, will return, early in 1912. Mr. A. C. Cooper, who has been associate to his Honour for the past few yeaa-a, leaves Wellington at the end of the month to join his brother, who is farming, in the Auckland district. < • Mr. E. T-cegear, late Secretary of the Labour Department, has ' Teturaed from a holiday at Rotorua. Mr. Tregear will leave for Christchurch in a few days, and while > there will be the. recipient of an address from the Trades and Labour Councils and .unions of the Dominion as a mark of appreciation, of his work whilst in charge of the Labour Department. The Trades Councils will be meeting in Christchurch at the time for the annual conference, and oppor- . tunity will also be, taken of presenting iMrs. Tregear with a memento. , Mr. E. S. Fcrne, who for some four years has been prominently connected with swimming in Wellington as secretary of the Swifts Swimming Club, is about to leave for Napier, and WeHipgton, thus losses a most energetic swimming enthusiast. At the annual smoke concert on Friday Mr. Forme wae heartily fare welled, and he was presented, on behalf of club members, with a travelling trunk. Mr. J. Flemming made the presentation, and said that the position rendered vacant would be a very hard on© to fill. He washed Mr. Fome every success and " good lock generally." Bishop Wallis preached a farewell sermon at St. Paul's pro-Cathedral yesterday morning. When he looked back (he said) over the sixteen or seventeen years he had been in New' Zealand, and thought of the things he hoped to do, , he found that while in some things b& had succeeded, there had been many failures. He had hoped to see. built a lai'ge place of assemblage for the poor. Tbe projected cathedral was not yet built, though, they had a site. Again, they were no nearer the accomplishment of his desire for religious teaching in the State schools. Concluding, the Bishop said : — "My parting wish for you ib tha& the Gfod of all hope may fill you with joy and p<jac& in believing through the power of the Holy Ghost." The following reference to the late Mr. S. Carroll appears in rhe annual report of the Chamber of Commerce : — "The chambar has lost, tho services of its able secretary, Mr. Samuel Carroll, who died on the 3rd December, at the 1 age of 83. Mr. Carroll had served the chamber faithfully and well for 37 years, and your council feels that in his death the chamber has lost a valued servant, whose wide commerjcia-1 and general knowledge was always at the disposal of members. The vacancy has been filled by the temporary appointment of Mr. C.' W. Carroll, who had been associated with his father in business for some seven years past, and y/ae therefore intimately acquainted with the general working of the chamber." Mt. John Christie, formerly of Wellington, received a presentation last week on his retirement from the editorship of the Ashburton. Mail and Guardian. On behalf of numerous Ashburton friends, Mt. John Lambie (chairman of the County Council) presented Mr. Christie with a purse of sovereigns, and ;n; n doing so referred in highly eulogistic terms to Mr. Christie, who had been following the profession of a journalist for forty years, and' who, during that time, had done an immense amount of good to his fellow -men. Hss high, lofty ideals, his clear, kgical, and high-ton-ed style of writing had been wjdely read, end the tone of those articles had had a fpr-reaching and powerful influence for good. Mr. Christie was a gentleman 4 v/ho, as a journalist and a private citizen, had been held in the highest est-sem. Several other gentlemen also spoke of Mr. Christie's work as a. journalist. Mr. Christie, in feelingly responding, said that he' had always endeavoured to discharge his duties fearlessly, impartially, and to the best of liis ability for the good and general welfaie of his fellow -men. He had made it a rule in life to act honestly, and jto give the best that was in him.