PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

♦ "■'■-' A Press Association message from ' Napier states that Sir Joseph Ward and < party left early this morning by motor for Wellington. | Mr. Justice Chapman will preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court, which open on Thursday. I Mr. S. Harris, a Napier businessman, i ia visiting Wellington. . Mr. H. B. Irving will be the guest ' of the New Zealand Club at luncheon on Thursday. I Mr. F. Laurenson, M.P. for Lyttelton, arrived in Wellington from the South this morning. The Hon. D. Buddo will be, present at the opening of the Coronation Hall at ' Mastertofl. on Thursday next. j The Hon. R. M'Kenzie, Minister, of i Public Works, left for Nelson this after- ! noon. He will return about the end of the week. Mr. R. Hendry, a well-known member of the Hutt Bowling Club, will leave next week for Oamaru, where he 1b about to take up hk residence. j The Anglican, Biehop of Auckland has appointed the Rev. F. G. Evans, L.Th., Afdhdeacon of Taranaki, in Succession to the Yen. Archdeacon R. H. Cole, who lately resigned on the ground of 111-health. ' Mr. Evana, who was for 3ome ye%rs vicar of St. Mary's, New Plymouth, received bis theological training at St. John's College, Auckland, and was ordained deacon in 1881, and priest in IQ&S. By the Australian mail to-day we learn that among the twenty-four drowned on 4th instant by the foundering of the s.s: Tathra, on charter from Sidney and trading in the New Hebrides, was Mr. James" TJre Russell, marine engineer. The late Mr. Russell, who was the eldest son of the late Captain James Ure Russell, formerly of Southland and Dunedin, was 45 years old at the time of his death, and leaves a widow and five children. For £ome years Mr. Russell served as engineer in the Union Company, and was well-known in Wellington shipping circles. Tiring of the sea he took up gold-dredging in, Otago, and later engaging in the same work on the Gold Coast, West Africa. Thence, after a stay in the Old Country, Mr. Russell proceeded to Australia, intending to settle in Sydney. Jornin» the engine room staff of the Tathra ho sailed on what has proved his last voyage. The Russell family, now dispersed, were old residents of Dunedin. * There they were highly regarded and leave many friends. Mr. Murray Russell, brother of the iate engineer, who graduated at the Otago School of Mines, ie Inspector of Mines in xhe service of the Queensland Government.

The Lower Hutt Borough Council was ' discussing last evening the question as to which insurance company ifc would be advisable to enter into a fidelity bond with. t The name* of several private companies were mentioned, when Councillor Ball aroee, and protested. Why, he flaked, was the Government office being overlooked? Surely the council should eet the people an example, and da such business with the State, Then whatever profit was made caihe back to the people, indirectly, instead of going to the pocketc. of a few shareholders. This led the. Mayor (Mr. E. I. Bunny) to state that he did not believe in patronising every department dpened by the Government, where the intention was to deprive private companies of business. "We should encourage," he said, "every form of private enterprise, and auppoxt those who are willing .and anxiou* to invest money in New jioaland. I don't believe in making the State a sort of dry nurse." Another councillor mentioned that the amount of the policy was only £4 — "not worth this consideration." The discussion wa« then closed, Councillor Ball still protesting that he. was fighting for an important principle, Mr. S. A. Palmer notifies by advertisement that he Is paying a short visit to Wellington, after ten yearB 1 abßeneo in England, where he has been introducing his Australian herbal remody, Vit&dutio. All eufl'ererj aru invited to call on hiiu, and Mr. Palmer say* he will trlvo advice free, and also tt littuple boltlo of hit rugiwlx,