PERSONAL MATTERS
The Hon. 0. J. Parr, Minister, ofEducation, has returned to Wellington from the North. .
The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of 'Lands; has returned to Wellington., -^
Mr. E. W. Carter, of Auckland has been appointed, Collector of Customs at Gisborne. •
Mr. J...5. Dent, Mayor of Whangarei, has acceded to a request to allow himself to be nominated, for another term.
Tho death is announced of Mr. B. Thorp, for some yeters'a member of the Christchurch City Council.
Colonel R. J. , Collins, Auditor and Controller-General, is at present in Auckland.
Major R. H. M'Donald, formerly' of Auckland, now stationed' at Peshawar, India', has been,, awarded the Crojx de Guerre. ' ■. . '
Mr. James R. Boose, travelling commissioner- of the Royal Colonial Institute, '■ who visited New Zealand a .few years ago, is at present in Australia, and will arrive in the Dominion in .the course of the next few months. v .
Mr. Ernest H. Wilson, assistant director of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, who has been- studying native timber in the Auckland province, has gone to Rotorua. He is accompanied by Mr. W. G. Morrison, of the New Zealand Afforestation Department.
Captain Leo Ml Myers, formerly of Auckland, who has been living in the Old .Country for some years, arid who has been on a visit to New Zealand, will leave Wellington fo,r London by the Arawa this afternoon. •/ '
1 Captain James' Callaghan, who for aoihe years was master of the Fiji Government steamer Clyde, died in the Auckland Hospital last week at the age of-76.
Mr. R. B. Morris, Secretary of the Postal Department, is expected to reach 'New Zealand on Wednesday, after having attended the International' Postal Convention in Spain. ■ . 'Mr. Harold Browji, of AVellington, who has been on a visit to Great Britain and Australia, was a passenger from Sydney l>y the Manuka this afternoon. Mr. Charles Kalman, who was for a long time licensee of the Central Hotel, Auckland, is dead. . He was 71 years of age. ."■ ■■ : Mr. W. Vaney,, of the' Railway. Department (Traffic Office) has been transferred from Paremata, where he has been stationed for the past five years, to Raurimu. Mr. Vaney left to-day for 'his, new sphere of duty.
Mr. j. G. L. Hewitt, the new Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, left for the Islands by the Tahiti on Satur ; day. Mr. Schilsky, examiner for the Trinity College of Music, was a passenger by the same steamer for San Francisco, en route to England.
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