PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7924, 1 February 1904, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr C. W. Willsteed, A.M.1.C.E., a nephew of Mr W. S. Wills-teed of this city, has been appointed by the Lords Commissioners of Ihe Admiralty schoolmaster tf> boy (artificers at Devor.port Dockyard. Mr Willstfced, who is a- native of Portsmouth, has been Manual Instructor in Engineering under the London,' School Board j. and has also <Jone good -work a.s teacher of niaichine constructiori ajid steam at the Gravesend Technical Institute, Major N. L. D ? Smith, who. has retired from the Defence Department, was presented with a smoker's outfit by members of the clerical staff of the Commandant's Office, Wellington, on Friday evening. The following were passenger^ to Hanmer Springs to-day: — Mr, Mrs and Miss Lonargan and Miss M. Murray, Christr church 5 Mr W. N. Bairron, Dunedin. Dr Anderson and Messrs Wood and Ritchie will leave for Wellington Jp-night tp attend the Conference of School Inspectors. Tl?e following passengers have been booked for Wellington by the Eotomahana this evening ? -^Misses Wynn- Williams! Bmdie, Wilding, Eultdn, Meares 1 ,. Hercns, Bell, Cookson (2), Newman, Clark, Freeman (2), Gascoigne, ■ Strouts, Pitfc,. Shelton, Giles (4), Gunn, Foster, Liedwig, Phelan, Blundell, Gower and Gaskell (2), Meadames Austin, Watt, Hamilton, Hercus, M'Kay, Rochej Rowley, Newman and two children, Haggitt and child, Turtle, Millichatmp and Gow, Right Hon R. J. Seddon, Drs Anderson ana 1 Barnett,' Rev F. Shiner, Messrs Wood, Brodic, Upton, Davenport, Milne, Holk"enb«c"c, Bowron, Bell, Austin, Glllow, Burnett, Watt, Kelly, Holton. Mitchell, y Hendry, Quane, Schatz, Ritchie, Beck, Bassenoe, JEamilton, Isbister, | son. Kerr, Thomson' and E. Crook. At 9, meetinir of the Christchurcn Domain Boardi this afternoon, Jlr H. P. ■ MurrayAynsley was appointed acting-deputy chair-* nv;ra until the Appointment of a new Board.