PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

\— • Mr. Thorpe, Mayor* of Motueka, died to«day aiter a short illness, states a Press Association telegram. Archdeacon Neild, Dunedin, who has Wfl on a visit to the Old Country, retttmed, by the Rttapehu from London yesterday. Mr, and Mfa. Edward Anderson, and Mifis Anderson, of Wellington, who a^e a* present in, Great Britain, will be back in New Zealand at th« end of November. Mr. Alex. MaoDougall, of Ellicestreet, who id still in the Davis-street Hospital, is making a fairly good ■ recovery, and he hopes to get back to hid own residence in a week or two. Mf. Horatio Everett, of Riwaka, has been nominated by the \Nelson District Fruitgrowers' Association to represent New Zealand ab lh« Australian ' Fruitgrowers' Conference to be held in Brisbane early ifl October next, The condition of Captain Stuart RobinsoO) who *3<s taken eeriottaly ill wfc the Defence .Office on Thursday, is much improved, xis yet no operation haa ..been performed. Another Defence Officer, Captain Raesam, is temporarily laid up with a recurrence of a fevef con* tracbed in Africa, but it is expected that ha will be abte to attend to his duties in a day or two, An improvement is imported in ,the condition of SergeantMaijot Millet, who was injured by some persons unknown at the Lower Butt recently. It will probably be a week before he is able to leave hospital.