PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

♦ The Hon. T. Mackenzie returned to (Wellington last night from true Taranaki , district. The installation of Mr. Charles Cathie a& Mayor of ICarori will take place at 8 p'clock to-night. Mr. M. F. Bourke, of Wellington and ■Napier, has been elected a Labour mem-. 'ter of the Napier Harboiur Board. Mr. P. J. Jones, orderly at the» Magisjtrat&'s Court, leaves Wellington on Tuesday next to take up the position of chief ■bailiff at Christchurch. 1 Mr. W. H. Herries, M.P. for th© Bay *f Plenty, leaves Wellington this aftermoon for Hokitika, where he will deliver I a political address. On hie way back i;to Wellington he will speak at ChristiXhurch. According to the Eltham correspondent |of tho Hawera Star, the Hon. T. MacI kenzie is to be asked' to s contest th© 'Egmont seat at the election. Messrs. i Dire and Wake have already stated that ilthey mil be candidates. Captain J. A. H. MarcieL Superin|ifcendent of Mercantile Marine at Lytteliton, is a passenger by the Kaikoura for Sjondon, on six months' holiday leave. He Jib accompaan'ed by Miss Marciel. Capjtap H. W. F,, Willcox is relieving Cap 'tain Marciel. Mr. W. C. Smith, headmasteir of the I'Grovetown School, has beeru offered by (the Governmeait, and has accepted, an appointment in charge of educational ' 'affairs in' the island of Nine. Mr. Smith's 'appointment, says the Marlborough Express, is w-ell deserved, for h& has an excellent record as a teacher, both the j'Havelock and Grov-etown schools having (made good progress under his rule. He | will be greatly missed in Groveiown, , {where he has made himself very popular (tiuring Iris- short stayMr. Nathan Lieber, who has been a /jresident of Wellington for twenty-two years, died yesterday at the age of 54. Th© deceased -was born- at Buehl, in. Germany, and lived in Dunedin before settling in Wellington. At* one time he was a partner in tho firm of Lieber and Pauli in thia city, but for some years before his death he -was in business for himself as an indent agent. He had been, in ill-health for about two years. He hae left a> widow and two daughters. The funeral took place this afternoon, the interment being made at Karori. Mr. Edward B. L. Reade, eldest son x>f the late Mr. Lawreaee Reade, solicitor, of Foxton, who ia to be married to- . moarow morning, was presented by the railway goods staff in Wellington yesterday with, a> set of carvers, a biscuit barrel, and- a honey jar. Mr. MeHor, goods age&t, made the presentation. Mr. Read© has also received from the choir of St. Anne's, Wellington South, of which he is conductor, a very fine dinner tsexvic©, and from the Wellington Catholic Cricket Club a silver salad bowl and set of serviette rings. He was entertained ob supper by the young men of St. Anne's parish, Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon, in the chair, and presented with a jardiniere. _