PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 14285, 1 February 1907, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Tlie Hoe Dr, Findlay was -engaged, yesterday morning on Exhibition busi- ■ i«6s, and in preparing for the opening ■of the Native Lands Commission,in the afternoon. • e The Hon J. M’Gowan, Minister of Mines, left for the south by the midday express yesterday, on his way to inspect the mining fields of Central Otago. Mr D. Buddo, M.H.R., went south by yesterday’s second express tram. Among -the arrivals in Christchurch yesterday wore Messrs ,H. Hart (Lawrence), G. M’Mastcre (Auckland), . J. S.Weir Wellington), A. Bell (Blenheim) and B. Myers (Auckland), and Mr and Mrs A. Sutherland (Palmerston North).. . A_ niimber of oversea Visitors reached Dhristchurch yesterday, ‘ among them being Mr W. H. Dick (London), Mr T. Hudson (Ceylon), Mr J. Tilley and ' Miss Tilley (Queensland), Mr A. J. M’Donald (Sydney) and Mr M. W. Ratz (Melbourne). Messrs James Edgar (Dunedin), Thomas Stevenson (New South Wales), • R. A. Anderson (Invercargill) and A. W. Smith (Wellington) were passengers - by the express trams for the south yesterday. . Mr George Scott and Herr R. C. Zimmerman left Christchurch by tho second express train from the south, yesterday. • Detective M’lnverney, of Invercargill, has been appointed Chief Detective in the office of the Commierioncr of Hi? duty will be to investi- ‘ gate special cases from all parts of the colony. Mrs Syme, Balwyn, Melbourne, wife of Mr D. York Syme, of the Melbourne - Steamship Company, and sister of the Right Hon G. H. Reid, is now on a ' visit to Christchurch, en route to tho Sounds. Professor Jarman was a passenger for Wellington yesterday evening by the s.s. Mararoa. Tho Rev A. North, of Ponsonhy gnd for many' years minister of the a'-over S reo: Bapt'st C. urc), Dun- • edjn), who is in Christchurch this w ek, is -.he only brother cf Mr J. W. North, A.R.A., one of whose paintings is in the British loan collection in the Exhibition Art Gallery. Mr E. W. Seager, who has lonv officiated as usher at the Christchurch Supreme Court, has been appointed Ouet-dian of the legal library. At a meeting of the managers of the Temuka Tec’:meal Association, Mr D. M’Caekill, 8.A., wre appointed superintendent of the classes at a salary of £SO a year. Mr J. T. Smart, of Hyzelburn. has been appointed first assistant in the Temuka "District High School, : Mr Charles Lancaster, of Groymouth, returned to the West Coast yesterday morning. At last night’s meeting of the Industrial Association the newly-appointed president, Mr A. W. Beaven, stated that Mr J. C. Wilkin, who had been a vice-president of tho Association, and had a one good service for the Association in many different ways, was leaving Christchurch temporarily for a trip to England. Members of the Association would join with him in wishing Mr and Mrs Wilkin bon voyage. They hoped he woujd come back looking five yeans younger, with heaps of now notions that would make the “Lyttelton Times ’’-even more of a success than it had been of late years. In returning thanks Mr Wilkin said he had been a citizen for fifty-six years, and had not been to England during the whole of that time. Ho had just completed fifty . years service with the “Lyttelton Times’’ Company, and had been very cordially granted twelve months' leave, which it was his intention to spend in a pleasant ramble through the place he had come from. On his return he would be very glad to be able to again associate himself with the institution.