PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. D. Buddo left for the south last night. The Rev. T. Fee and Mrs. Fee leave this ovenmg on a holiday trip to Sydney. The Hon. G. Fowlds, who has been spending the holidays at Auckland, i$ expected back in Wellington on Satuiv day afternoon. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout> returned from Dunedin. tliia morning., Mr. Justice Cooper is expected tc-mor-i'ow afternoon. The condition oi Mr. Clark, member for Port Chalmers, is causing his friends some concern (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent). The Rev. J. D. Russell, of Petone, ' who is at present on a visit to Chrkti church, returns from the South to-mor-row morning. A Press Association telegram from) Gisbome states that .Mr. John Wilson, a well-known architect, and a prominent bowler, aged 71 years, was taken ill last! night and died early this morning, Mr. W. J. Mackay has been appointed Superintendent and Medical Officer of the Nelson Asylum, and Dr. St. Leger H. Gribben is gazetted' an inspector of asylums, hospitals, and liceniSiadJ houses. Lieut. -Colonel F. W. Abbott, Cap, tains R. St. J. Beere and Klingender, Lieuts. A. H. Burn and H. Garland and Sergfc. -Major Veitch, of the New; Zealand Coronation Contingent, left for London by the Arawa yesterday. The Rev. J. G. Wheen, general siecre-i tary of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, left Wellingtou for 1 Christchurch last night to open a campaign in New Zealand. He visits Well lington in June, and will conduct a uumbei of meetings. Before the council meeting of the Hataitai Electors' Association closed laet night, the chairman (Mi\ A. Leigh Hunt)! on behalf of the residents of Hatiitai presented Mr. J. L. Arcue, eeoretaay, with a email memento in recognition, of hk efforts in the interests of the district. Mr. Arcus suitably responded. , The Hon. T. Mackenzie left Dunedim by the first express to-day (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent). At Stud- 1 holme Junction <b\vo motor-cars are toi be in readiness to take the Minister and party through the Waimate Gorge to look at some land and a forest which! the people want preserved. Mr. Maokenzie is to open a Christchurch s\ibi<h ban post office on Saturday, and U$ crosses to Wellington that night. The Palmerston North Borough Council held its final meeting prior to the( municipal elections last evening, after ■which councillors entertained the Mayor (Mr. Nash) at supper (telegraphs our local correspondent). Councillors spoke in high terms of Mr. Nash's work during the theee years in whioh he has occupied the mayoral chair, and tha opinion was expressed that the municipal government of Palmerston was equal to that of any town of its size in the Dominion, and that no other town had gone j ahead more than PalmM'ston during tho | period Mr. Nash had been Mayor. Spe, ciaJ mention was made of tho work done, iby the Mayoress for the good of the town.