PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13780, 19 June 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. J. G. Lockie, second engineer of the Karitane. is in Auckland oh, a holiday visit. ' ' "" '"' ■ ''■■■'-■':' :'\'/ ~'' Captain G. H. Lacy, late of theMbnowai, 8s at present in command of the Tarawcra. :■':"■ '" Mr. Ftirket, at present resident engineer at Ohakune, will succeed Mr. Usher . as •;"; district engineer for Otago. ..:•-' ; Mr. E. C. Isaac' inspector of technical schools, arrived in Auckland yesterday, on : ; :' his annual visit of inspection. :' Mr. W. Tav.lor, manager at Auckland, for m, Konrpthorne," Prosser, and Co., returned ■', : i'rom the South yesterday by the Rarawa. \ Mr. R. W. Evans, who has.been-assist-. '.- ant clerk: for' some time to the Ohinemuri ; County Council, has been appointed clerk, ' ' at a. salary of £200 per annum. Dr. Makgill. Government bacteriologist, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Dur- - ' ing bis stay in Auckland lie will make an analysis of'the Auckland water supply. ' Dr. Mitchell, surgeon of the Antarctic exploration ship Nimrod, and Mr. Harboid, second officer of the vessel, lett - ■ . Christchurch yesterday morning for 8r0.,, ~, ken River, where they are .to start on V! ' . a walking tour in the West Coast and *-:l- the Wellington districts. Captain H. A. Richards, Government mining inspector for the West Coast, who has been in ill-health for some time pas*, arrived at- Auek'and by the Tarawera yesterday. The many friends of Captain Richards in Auckland and the provincial ... goidiielda will be pleased to • learn that his ~ health, ' has considerably improved. In the Porto Rico Review mention is made of-the death of an old identity of Kan Juan, Mrs. (Dr.) Cook. Her daughter, % Mrs. Matheson, it is stated, was railed back from her honeymoon trip to her mother's death-bed. Mrs. Matheson ■'>'' is the wife of an old Manawatu boy, Mr Peter Matheson, youngest, son of the '■ ' late Mr. M. Matheson,< of Karere, near Palmerston North, and the brother of Mr. R. M. Matheson, of Makino. He was at ''' i work in New York when the SpanishAmerican war broke out, arid he went to the front in, Cuba with the Americans. After the war he made for Porto Rico, where he secured a position under the Go- •-. vernment, acquiring a knowledge of the ;,' ■ ' Spanish language. The young New ZeaV lander passed an examination which qualified him for a post, and eventually led .' him into his present position of Commis-. Monei- of 'i. Customs at' San Juan, the capi- :;. tal of Porto Rico. . . ' . "tsrawi-'U- v:..,.--'---:' ■■■:-/.- _ <v-'jv-. ■: ■'•-■.." ■■'-■'-...■'■. -.'■ -.. . ■■' '.-.■■■■ ..