PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 113, 15 May 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

m Captain G. G. Smith, Royal Naval Registrar, returned from a visit to Ohristohurch yesterday. Mr. T. Reid, postmaster at Carterton, is on sick leave owing to eye trouble. Mr. A. Ramsay is acting as locum tenens. • i Mr. W, F. Massey, " Leader of the Opposition, will, by request, deliver a political address at Invercargill on the 30th inst. Mr. W. A. Flavell, Wellington manager for th« Westport Coal Company, returned to Wellington from the South yesterday. The ' Hon. J. Carroll left this morning for Masterton, where he is to open a new miniature rifle range connected with the district high school. Mr. W. C. Kensington, Under-Secue-tary for Crown Lands, retmrned to Wellington on Saturday evening from a visit of inspection to the Ha-urald Plains drainage operations. Captain G. G. Smith, Naval Registrar, returned to Wellington yesterday morning from Lyttelton, where he has been engaged in. connection with the enrolment of naval reservists. A well-known resident of Ashhurst, Mr. A. Laoey, died at the Palmerston Nortt. Hospital last week. Deceased took a prominent part for a number of yeara in the Foresters' Society. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie is expected to return to Wellington this afternoon from a visit to Taranaki. Later in the week he will go South, to take part in the Gabriels Gully Jubilee celebrations. Owing to the illness of the Gaoler, Mr. A. G. Millington. his duties at the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court, which opened to-day, are being taken by the new chief warder, Mr. A. W. Roberts. 1 Mr. Hugo Gorlitz, representing the Sheffield Chorr, returned from Tasmania yesterday. The choir is in Western Canada, where its reception was most enthusiastic, according to a cable received on Saturday. The members eai) by the Zealandia from Vancouver on Friday. What appears lilt© a record is the reelection for the thirty-ninth year in succession of Mr. J. G. Cox as a churchwarden of St. John's Church, Featheruton. When Mr. Chatwin, was re-elected to a similar position at St. Mark's Church, Wellington, for the thirty-third year, it was generally thought at the last annual meeting- of that church that he had then, secured a record. Not so, however, as Mr. Cox's re-election shows. Mr. William Boyd, who was for many years secretary of the Wellington, Trust, Loan, and Investment Company, died at his residence at Summerhill, Sydney, on 29th April. The deceased was barn, inEngland 71 years ago on the 31st of last March, and after completing his education entered the office of a firm of railway engineers a-nd manufacturers in London. While stall a yoong man he went out to Australia, and was on a survey party these for some time. Later on ho arrived in New Zealand, and for some years he was in the Aj-xned Constabulary. He was in several engagements with the Maoris, and for an act of bravery was mentioned in despatches. Afterwards he settled ia Wellington, and joined the staff of the Wellington. Mutual Investment Company, which became merged in the Wellington Trust, Loan, and Investment Company. lix July, 1894 he resigned the position' of secretary of the latter com.pa.ny and went to London, afterwards settling in Sydney. The deceased has left a. widow but no