PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Sir Joseph Ward will leave for Taupo either on Saturday or Monday. Mr. John Duthie, jun., was a passenger by the Moeraki from Sydney yesterday. Mr. M. Myers, of the legal firm of Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers, returned from England, via Sydney, yesterday. Mr. W. 1 J. Gardner, chief clerk to the Lower Hutfc Borough Council, returned yetterday from a three weeks' holiday trip to Sydney. Mr. A. Macintosh,, manager of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., who has been on a trip to England, returned to New Zealand, via Sydney, yesterday. Mr. Alexander Macintosh, superintendent for Dalgety and Company, Ltd., who returned from London via Sydney yesterday, spent a considerable time in England" and Scotland^ and travelled in Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium. Bishop Mules, Anglican Bishop of Nelson, has, states a Press Association telegram from Nelson, sent to the Bishop of Ohristchurch, Acting-Primate, notice of his desire to resign the Nelson See, and to retire from his duties on , 30th June. i Mr. H. G. • Price, chief draughtsman J in the lands and survey office at Napier, has been promoted to a similar position at Chfistchurch. Ho was, prior to his departure, presented with a handsome silver-mounted .oak tray (suitably inscribed), and a solid Bilvel- afternoon tea service, as a token of the esteem in which' he is held by his fellow officers in Napier. The Rev. J. A. Jacobs, late vicar and archdeacon of Wanganui, was instituted Ust nightby Bishop Julius to the position of vicar of Timaru, in succesrion. to Archdeacon -Harper, who ltad bedn vicar for thirty-six years. There was a crowded congregation. The Bishop, in his ( sermon, urged the congregation to assist their new vicar in every possible way. Mr. John M'Cormack, the renowned Irish tenor vocalist, who arrived by the I Moeraki yesterday, was tendered a reception at the Grand Hotel by a gatherine of representatives of the Wellington Hibernian Society, among those present being the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy and tUv, Fathers O'Shea (vicar-general) and Hickton, Drs. Martin and Cahill, and Mr. Martin Kennedy. Mr. M'Cormack is accompanied by his wife and two children. Mr. George Newton, who died at the Grey River Hospital on Sunday last, at the age of 81 years, was long a resident of Brunner, He had' taken a great deal of Interest in Labour matters on the West^ Coast for a number of years. At the time of the big maritime strike, he was practically the leader of the Labour Party on the Coast, and took a prominent part in the dispute. - For yearn be was president of the Grey Valley Miners' Union. Mr, James Newton, now Inspector of Mines fot the West Coast, Nelson, and Marlborough, is a son of the deceased. Another eon, Charles, died only last week.