PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

- IX Earl Grey, who is expected to arrive from the south on Sunday, will be the guest or the New Zealand Club and the Wellington members of the Royal Colonial Institute at a luncheon in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Tuesday next. The Right Hon. W. F. Massey I will leave Wellington on Monday next for a trip to the West Coast and Canterbury. He will be-away for about three weeks, and shortly after his return will leave for the North Auckland district. The Hon. W. Eraser is in the Wakatipn ] electorate. The Hon. J. Allen is at Christchurch, and is expected to return to Wellington to-morrow. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is at Dannevirke. The Hon. W. H. Herries returned from the | Manawatu district last night. The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington Siv Joseph Ward returned to Wellington from the South this morning. Mr, H. Munro has been appointed Registrar of Brands for the Wellington district. Mr. James Fordyce (Presbyterian) is gazetted an officiating Minister under the" Marriage Act. Mr. J, H. Upton, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, returned to Auckland last night, Mr. W. R,. Howard is gazetted Registrar of Marriages, Births, and Deaths for the Shannon district. Mr. E. H. Hiley, General Manager of Railways, and Mr. T. Buxton, M.P., arrived from the south this morning. Mr. R. S. Abraham (Pa.lmerston North) has accepted the position of Boy Scoufc Commisisoner in the Wellington (north) .province.,. Mr. ff. Brooks, who has been in charge of the fitting shop at Petone railway workshops for some years, is being transferred to Hillside, Dunedin. Mr. Frank Cocks, of tho Press Association staff, leaves for Sydney this even< ing by the Maucganui, to act as relieving officer there for three months. Mr. R. J. Alexander, chief engineer of the Pacific cable steamer Iris, has been granted extended leave, and has arrived lfi Wellington on his way to London. Mr. R. Keene left Wellington on Wednesday evening for Auckland and North Cape. He will visit the Bay of Plenty and the Waikato on the return journey. A private cablegram received, in Sydney from London announces the death of Air. David Anderson, the late general manager of the Orient Steamship Company in Australia. The Rev. A. Thompson, Minister of tho Petoue Presbyterian Church, who, is in a private hospital in Kensington- | street, slept well last night, and u» making favourable progress towards rej covery. Mr. Herbert L. Griffiths, LL.B.? of Wellington, has been admitted a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Cout of New Zealand. The motion for jidmission was made by Mr. R. B, Williams before Mr. Justice Stringer. News "has been received from London that Mr. George J. Bertinshaw, of the local District Railway Engineer's staff, lies been successful in passing the Associate Membership Examination of the Intitution of Civil Engineers. Mr.* Edward John Burch, an old fiettler of Poverty Bay, died at Whangarei on Tuesday last. He' resided in Gifeborne from 1876 until about two years ago, when ho left to take up liis residence with his son, Mr. Walter Burch, at Whangarei. Mr. W. 0. Williams, an old and respected settler, died at Greytown last night, in his eighty-sixth < year (telegraphs our correspondent). He arrived in the Dominion in 1840, and Jived at the Hutt till the 'fifties. He then came to the Wairarapa. The Minister of Marine (the Honi F. M. B. Fisher) will visit < Akitio and Aohanga about the 22nd inst. for the purpose of looking into the question of harbour works on that part of the East Coast. He will be accompanied by the Marine Engineer (Mr. R. W. Holmes). Mr. J. W. Henderson, of Karon, who is a member of the Wellington Diocesan Synod, will leav<? for Auckland next Wednesday, and on tho 25th inst. will embark on the Melanesian steamer Southern Cross on a cruise amongst the islands. He will be absent from New Zealand for three or four months. Private advice has (telegraphs The Post's correspondent) been received in Dunedin of the death in London, on Tuesday last, of Mr. David Anderson, who for many years was gejieral manager in Australia for the Orient Corn* pany. He retired* some time ago owing to ill-health, and-was succeeded by Mr. David Reed. The Rev. J, H. Mackenzie, of the .Onehunga Congregational Church, who recently expressed his determination to resign the pastorate and proceed to Scotland, was asked to reconsider his decision, but has decided to adhere to his former resolution. Mr. Mackenzie's medical adviser has warned him that tho stateof his health renders a long holiday imperative.