PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie will leave for the South to-night. The Hon." A. T. Ngata returned to Wellington from the .East Coast last night. Mr. John M'Cormack, the Irish tenor, and party will arrive from Sydney tomorrow. Mr. Arthur Ballinger, the well-known rifle ehot,_ is suffering from appendicitis, and was to have been operated on this afternpon. Lieutenant-Colonel 3". T. fcurnettStuarfc,, D.5.0., .Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, left for the South last night. Sir. Louis Hint?, father of Mr. A. A. Hintz, director of the Nelson Technical School, died in Nelson on Sunday, aged seventy-two years. Mr. Gladstone Ward, son of Sir Joseph Ward, is about to enter commercial life at Christchurch. Ho left for the South last night. A Press Association cable mebsage states that Archbishop , Wright will leave Sydney early in February for a month's holiday tour in New Zealand. Mr. F. B. Spillsbury. af the Commercial Union Assurance staff) has been transferred to Gisborne, The members of the staff yesterday presented him with a mark of esteem. Mr. Alfred William Gyles, the chess E layer, leaves Wanganui to-day, where c has been spending a . few days' holiday since competing at the Napier Chess Congress. He will spend a few day* at Wellington, en route for Westport. Miss Rose M 'Donald (states a Press Association message from Napier) has been appointed Matron of Napier Hospital. She is at present Matron at the Dunedin Maternity Hospital, and was previously for six month Acting-Matron at the Dunedin General Hospital. Mr. Charles 0- Reacle, late editor of the New Zealand Graphic, is on his way to Britain and Europe, on a holiday by which he hopes to benefit bis health. While travelling through countries of the Old World he expects lo make researches in town-planning, # a subject in which he has keenly interested himself, as Wellington and Auckland citizens have been able to perceive. Mr. W. L. Bosschart, Consul-General in Australasia for the Netherlands, is about to pay a visit to New Zealand, and will arrive here by the Moeraki from Sydney. He purposes staying m Wellington till the 17th inst., and any merchants or'' others who would like to interview him with regard to trade between the Netherlands, Netherlands India, and New Zealaud ehuuld' communicate with him through the Consul for the Netherlands in Wellington (the Hon. C. 'J. Johnston). Mr. Kinsella, formerly Dairy Commissioner of New Zealand, has died in Sydney after a lengthy illness. Mr. Kinsella was a Canadian, and came to ¦New Zealand twelve years ago as instructor is the Dairy Division of tho Agricultural Department. Ho was sent to England, America, and Europe to make enquiries in connection witti the production and marketing of dairy produce, the result being a valuable report. Mr. Kinsella, for four years prior to his retirement, was . head of the Dairy Division of the Agricultural Department. He was then engaged by tho West Australian Government as dairy expert, but resigned two years ago to enter into commercial business in Sydney,'