PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr T. T. King, Inspector of Post Offices for Otago and Southland, has been appointed postmaster at Napier. Mr J. Scheele has been appointed secretary to the Napier Hospital Trustees and the Hawke's Bay Charitable Aid Board, m succession to the late Captain Baker. Sir Charles Lucas, who recently visited Australia and New Zealand, has "returned to London. In the course of an interview he said lie _ was greatly struck with the obvious desire of the Governments and people in the Commonwealth and the Dominion to co-operate with the Mother Country in. matters of common interest, and their great resources would make the cooperation of a constantly growing value. He hoped that his and Mr Pearson's visit .would do the forerunner of other Colonial Office trips. The Czar starts for Italy on the 14th inst.

Mr David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to receive an address and suitable memento from the Welshmen of the Bnller district as a mark of their appreciation of his perseverance with the British Budget. Ladv Phroket takes her departure from New Zealand in February next.

Mr John M'Ghio (Messrs Speight and Co.), who for many months has been confined to his bed owing to a very severe illness, is now on the road to recovery. A Wellington telegram advises that tho Wellington Presbytery to-day decided to nominate the Rev. J. H. Mackenzie, of Nelson, for the position of moderator of the General Assembly for 1910.