PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4260, 21 January 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Hon J. Carroll and Mr A. L. 1). Eraser, M.H.R., lunched with the Governor of South Australia (Lord Tennyson') prior to leaving Adelaide for New Zealand. The Hon \V. Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, returned to Wellington by the Ratomahana yesterday. The Hon H. Feldwick, M.L.C.. was also a passenger by the same boat.

Mr Thomas Sidcy, formerly of Napier, who left Lyttelton for South Africa in March last as purser and storekeeper on board the steamer Maori, has received an appointment- in Salisbury/ Rhodesia, as assistant accountant to tho Goldfields of Matabeleland Company, one of the most important of the South African mi ni n g co rp o rat ions. On The experimental trawling cruise of tho Doto round the coasts of the North Island, Which will commence in the. course of a few days. Mr L. F. Aysou, the Commissioner of Fisheries, will he accompanied, at the instance of the Otago Institute, by Mr A. Hamilton, marine biologist. Mr Hamilton is -Registrar of the Otago University. Mr J. B. Paterson ( !; The Banjo”), ono of the many clever Australian war correspondents whom the South African trouble has brought to light, re tunic: l , to Sydney by tho Westralia on Saturday evening. “ Banjo’s ” lectures, coming so soon after'’those of Air Donald Macdonald, naturally lost a great deal of the attention and patronage they would otherwise have received. However, his tour has been a fairly successful one,’ and “The Banjo” is hardly likely to regret Ids visit to this colony. Where be made many friends.

The Acting-Premier, the Hon J. G. Ward, left for the South by the Tntanckai at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon. On Monday Mr Ward avail lay the foundation stone of the new Post Office at Ashburton. He will go on the same day to Dunedin in order to be present at tho reception to the returning troopers by the Orient, which is expected to reach Port Chalmers to-morrow. Mr Ward will probably return to Wellington in the Orient. It is his intention to accompany the Sixth Contingent in the Cornwall from Wellington to Auckland, in order to present at the final farew ell to the contingent in the Northern City.