PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey is on his way from Christchurch to Dunedin. He will speak at Tapanui on Friday night, at Moa Flat on Saturday, Mosgiel on Monday night, and at Fairlie on Tuesday. He will leave for Wellington on Wednesday night. The Hon. J. Allen and the Hon. A. L. Herdman are at Rotorua. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes is at Auckland. The Hon. W. H. Henries is at Tokomaru Bay. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher returned from Masterton to-day. The Hons. H. D. Bell, W. Fraser, and Dr. Pomare are in Wellington. His Honour" Mr. Justice Edwards returned from Masterton last night. Mr. H. S. Baddeley was admitted as a solicitor to-day by his Honour the Cnief Justice, on the motion of Mr. H. E. Evans. Mr. Ernest Hadfield and Mr. W. H. Turnbull, who have been ill for some days, are reported to-day to be feeling much better. Mr. A. S. Bise, wBo went to Australia to meet his wife, who has been on a trip to England, returned to Wellington by the Athenic to-day. Mr. H. W. Northcroft, New Zealand Resident at the Cook Islands, is spending his holiday leave in New Zealand, having arrived from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Whitson, secretary of the Union Steam Ship Company, is, states a Press Association message from Dunedin, retiring after thirty-five years' connection with the company. m Sergeants. John Moore and Edward Clough, of the Royal Engineers, arrived in Wellington this morning by the Athenic. They will be attached to the New Zealand Forces in an instructional capacity. Says a Press Association message from Napier : — ".The popularity of Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., as Mayor is evidenced by tKe fact that every councillor signed his nomination paper for re-election. Mr Gi Brown, of the accountants' branch of the "tramways department, recently underwent a somewhat serious operation, in the Wellington Hospital. He is reported to be doing as well as can be expected. Mr, Henry Bracy, one of the managers cl the J. C. Williamson Firm, arrived in Wellington to-day by - the Tahiti. He is proceeding through to America on a health-recruiting trip, and will probably visit Los Angeles. He expects to return about May. Mr. Harry Muller, who was recently appointed general manager in New Zealand for the Fuller-Brennan circuit, has just completed a tour of the firm's houses in the Dominion. Mr. Muller leaves tomorrow for Sydney to report personally at headquarters the results of his inspection. Mr. J. L. Palethorpe, who has for many years been actively connected with the Wellington College Old Boys' Association, was last night presented by fellow-members of the association with a case of pipes for himself and jewellery for Mrs. Palethorpe, to mark the occasion of his recent marriage. The presentation was made by Mr. W. E. Bethune. A Press Association telegram from Timaru announces the death, in her eighty-seventh year, of Frances, relict of Captain Woollcome, R.N., who was the first Magistrate and harbourmaster, and held many other public offices in the early days of Timaru. Deceased, who was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Fendall, of Christchurch, is survived by one son and several daughters. Wellington College Jubilee is in the year 1917, quite a long way ahead yet, but the Old Boys' Association is bent ing of old boys from all parts of New Zealand, and even further afield, if possible. In order that this may be done, the Association decided last night that preparations for the jubilee celebrations should be taken in hand at once. Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, who has been on leave for the benefit of his health, has returned from the South island, and will resume duty next Wednesday. Professor Prince, who is to report upon the New Zealand Fisheries, will arrive at Auckland by the Marama on 7th April, and Mr. Ayson has been instructed to meet him when he lands and accompany him on his tour of the Dominion. Mr. Bain Hogg, metallurgist, formerly if the Thames School of Mines, who returned from Nicaragua, Central America, by the Moana to-day, states that there were several New Zealanders in Nicaragua recently — all connected with the gokl mining industry there. Mr. Jim Dare, of Thames, and formerly a well-known footballer, n a s under-ground manager in one mine, and Mr. Maxwell, also of the Thames, was manager of another mine. Mr. John A. Agnew, another Thamesite, is now managing director of a London syndicate, which has extensive mining interests in Nicaragua. Mr. Agnew recently visited Nicaragua to inspect his company's j mines in that republic.