PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4318, 29 March 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL

■Mr John Chase, of Ractihi, has been licensed to act as a Maori interpreter of the second grade. 1 The Rev A. Keogh (Roman Catholic) and the Rev John Olphert (Primitive Methodist) are gazetted officiating .ministers under the Marriage Act. Mr .. T. Cunningham, veterinary, ysurgeon, Oamaru, has been appointed an Inspector of Abattoirs under the Gov. eminent. His headquarters will be at Mataura. -Mrs Hawthorne, who has been acting as Inspector of Factories hi . Christchurch, has returned to 'Wellington. Mr W. H. Agger is now to take charge of the Christchurch district during the absence of Mr Lomas on the Coal Commission. . j. ;; The Prince and Princess of Honolulu, accompanied by Sir Somers V me,, rector of the Imperial Institute, were passengers by the Wakanui from London to the Capo. It is the, intention of th 3 patty to visit Australia and New Zealand after they have sVen aomctuing of South Africa. i A Press Association telegram from Dunedin says that intimation has been received, of the death in the United States, while returning from a visit to London, of Mr Peter Laing, manager of the Dunedin branch of the D.I.C. He had been with the company for about fifteen years.

Miss Mary E. Morton, a celebrated painter of animals, lias arrived ‘ from Auckland on a brief visit to Wellington. Miss Morton, who is a pupil of Prank Calderon, the well-known London artist, has executed some good work in New Zealand, including pictures of- Major . George’s Seahorse, polo ponies of Mr Rhodes, of Christchurch, and horses longing to Mr Douglas McLean. Miss Morton’s Wellington agent is Mr McGregor Wright,’ afc whose premises on Lambton quay Miss Morton’s painting of Mrs Dan Riddiford’s hunter Harkaway is now on view. ; „■> The an*ni:al conference of the railway officers of, Australasian.. Governments will open in Melbourne on the 6th May. Tlie New,,, Zealand .'Railway Department'will bd represented l at the conference by Moss,rs.John Cooih (chief engineer). A- L*. .Beattie (locomotive superintendent) and- A. C. Fife (accountant), who will leave for Melbourne on the 16th April. At the annual conference of commissioners and general managers, wdiich will also be held in Melbourne, New Zealand will be represented by Mr T. Ronayno, who will leave Wellington for Australian on the 20th April.

Mr Richard -Rhodes, of Mangawcka, has resigned froin the commission ot the peaoo. Miss Sheriff-Bain, who has recently been very successful iu a course of lectures in tho South, dealing with the elevation of the human race, was in Wellington yesterday, on route for Gisborne, where she .is to give several ad. dresses. Miss Sheriff l4a:a . will probably lecture in Weilii-.g)on on an early date.