PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6137, 18 February 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Hon. G. Fowltls will visit Stratford this week and inspect the High School there on Thursday. The Hon. J. A. Millar leaves for Dunedin to-night. Ho will bo absent fiom Wellington for about a week. Mr James Moore, tf the Missions to Beamon, and Mrs Moore are taking three weeks’ holiday from their labours us from to-day. Mr A. IS. Wadsworth, formerly in the Wellington City Council’s drainage department, has boon appointed sanitary inspector for Tasmania. The condition of the Rev. R. Coffey, of St. Mark’s, Sussex square, who has been seriously ill, is now' reported to be showing some improvement. Mr Clifton, chief inspector of the Stock Department, who has been on departmental business in Auckland, is expected to be back in Wellington tonight.

It will ho of interest to Imperial veterans in this district to learn that the death occurred on Saturday of one of their number,, Mr Garrett Lacey, at the age of eighty. Commander 0. G. Sinclair, R.N., arrived by the Tongariro from London on Saturday, to take charge of surveying work in Now Zealand waters. His family accompanies him.

The death is announced of Mr .James Butters, one of the best known marine engineers in the colony, and at one time in the Union Company’s service.

Mr W. B. Buller, manager of tho Auckland branch of the Bank of New' Zealand, returned from the Old Country with Mrs and the Misses Buller, by tho Tongariro. Mr H. Findlay, of the Gore branch ■of the Bank of Australasia, left on Friday, on transfer to Wellington. He is well known in athletic circles at Gore.

Mr George 'Mathieson, who was advance representative for the “Squaw Man” Company, left for Sydney by the Warrimoo on Saturday to join the Tittel Brune Company, which is about to go on tour. Mr IT. J. 11. Blow, Under-Secretary for the Public Works Department, left Wellington on by the Arahnra for Nelson. After inspecting the railway works there he will proceed to Westport and Greymouth.

The Hon. Mr McNab, Minister of Lunds, left Wellington on Saturday morning for the north of Auckland, principally on official business. During his visit to the north ho will take the opportunity of explaining the Land Sill.

Mr O. W. Booth, of Bradford, Yorkshire, a prominent English fruit merchant, arrived at Wellington on Sattirday by tho Tongariro. Mr Booth has an extensive business in London «uid a branch business in New York.

Mr H. A. Young, Magistrate at Pretoria, and Mr H. R. Young, executive engineer Transvaal Irrigation Department (sons of Mr R. A. Young, Resident Engineer, Westport), arrived from Africa on Saturday on a visit to their parents.

Mr C. B. Collins, a Marion solicitor, and formerly a strident of Victoria College, has received cabled advice from England that he has gained first-class honours in law. This dis-tinction-entities him to the degree of Master of Laws.

The Hon. J. McGowan, Minister of Mines, left Christchurch on Saturday morning for the West Coast. He will visit Kuroara, Hokitika, Ross, Reefton, ■On’yniouth, Westport, and the State ■mines, and will also be present at the banquet to he given to Mr Tom Seddon, at Hokitika. Hr H. IP. Allen loft for the south on Saturday to attend the annual conference of the Master Bakers’ Association which opens at Timaru on the 19th inert'. The conference will last until the 23rdjinst., when Mr Allen will visit Dunedin and possibly Invercargill. Ho will then return to Wellington, leaving again for Christchurch at the end of the month, to attend the annual conference of the Hew Zealand Ironmasters’ Association, which site on the 28th inst. Mr Charles Owen, author of “Captain Sheen,” which originally appeared as a serial in our columns and was afterwards published in book form, is leaving this week for the Old Country. Mr Owen has nearly completed another story of New Zealand life, which has been bespoken by a leading London publisher. He will be accompanied by his wife and family, and intends to settle at Portobello, on tbo Firth of Forth, about three miles from Edinburgh. Mr J. Liddell Kelly, late editor of the "New Zealand Times,” has been commissioned by the Government to proceed to the Homo Country and report on the possibilities of trade between Now Zealand and British West Coast ports. Mr Kelly intends leaving by the Federal-Houklor-Sbire steamer Oswestry Grange, visiting [Bristol. Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow. The Oswestry Grange is announced to sail from Wellington on the SSrth inst.