PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 133, 2 December 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of the birth of Queen Alexandra. The Hon. Dr. Pomare left for the North yesterday. The Hon. J. A. Hanau is expected to return from Auckland on Saturday or Sunday next. His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) leaves for New Plymouth on Saturday to preside at the sitting of the Supreme Court there. On Monday next, his Honour Mr. Justice Chapman will preside at the Blenheim sittings of the Supreme Court. Captain Donald Simson n-is a passenger by the Mararoa from the South to-day Mr. Claude Rowe has been appointed to the charge of the poet and telegraph office at the new military camp at Featherston. • Mr. George Cruickshank, S.M.. has been appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercargill, vice the late Mr. J. R. Colyer. L.-Cpl. H. D. Skinner, who has been honoured win, the Distinguished Conduct Medal, was a junior master of the Palmerston Xorili High School and an old boy of Kelson Colleg.;. Mr. Edgar Allman Marchant (fourth son nf Mr. J. \V. A. Marchant. formerly Surveyor-General in New Zealand) ha's enlisted. For some years past he ha-s been a surveyor in Wangarfui. On the 14th inst. he will go into camp as a noncommissioned officer in the Engineers' section of the 13th Reinforcements. In the course of an interestng letter to a- friend in Wellington, Lieut. Ernest Denton, E.N.R., of the monitor H.M.S. Marshal Ney, states that he met Mr. Raymond Ward, nephew of Sir Joseph Ward. He was wounded, and in hospital at Manchester, near Lieut. Denton's home, anß was making good progress.