PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL, The Governor and the Countess- of Liverpool and party left Wellington shortly after 11 o'clock this morning for a Short cruise in the Tutanekai. The I steatite? will call at various places in Maflboraugh Sounds, and reach Ship Cove in ample time to enable His Excellency to perform the ceremony of .unveiling the Captain Cook memorial there at 12.30 p,m, to-morrow. Picton will be reached on Wednesday morning, and the vessel will return to Wellington with the Vice-Regal party in the evening. Their ExeeMidies have issued invitations, for a garden-party at GxJVernrilent House next Saturday afternoon. - The Prinie Minister (the Hon. W. F. Masse'y) will leave for Marton on Wednesday, The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is at Blenheim, and will attend the unveiling of the Cook memorial at Ship Cove td-mdrrow, at which ceremony the Hon. H. D. Bell i*ill also be present. The Hon. R. H. Rhode's Is on his way from Christchurch to Dunedin and Mount Cook. The Hoh, W. H. Herrjes left this morning for New Plymbuth. Me will return oil Friday. Mr. S. Spragg, chief of the Hansard staff, and Mrs. Spragg, will leave on a visit to Sydney at the end of the presen*. i month. " The newly-appointed ttesldent Commissioner at the Cc»k Islands (Mr. H. W. NortlWroft, ex-S.M.) will leave fotf the Islands at the end of the month. \ Thelßev. J. J. North, who concluded i his term of ministry at the Baptist Church, Vivian-street, yesterday, will leave for Christchurch this evening. The Rev. Father Story, C.SS.R., who has been, conducting "retreats'' for the Catholic clergy in the Dominion, left for Sydney by the Manuka last week.. Mr. and Mi's. Harfis, of Picton, will leave Auckland by th© Zealand}* ior VdtictJuVef next Friday, The'V will visit Europe, and return by way of : Sydn<jy. ! Dr. C. Ernest Wronger, of London, who has been touring the North Island, will leave for" the South to-night, ahd ! return to Wellington in tiriie to catch the Corinthic for London on 20th February. The Rev. M'Ddnald AsWand, chairman i of the Congregational Union of New ZeaI land, leaves by the Maori this evening to attend the annual conference At Timaru. The Rev. J. H. M'Kenzie, secretary to the union, is accompanying him. On 20th February next the Conciliation Conimissioner (Mr. P. Hally) will preside at a sitting of the 'council, to be held in Palttlerston North, to consider an application by the employees of the Manawdttt Master Printers' Association with regard to wages and general working conditions. On 28th February Mr. Hally will adjudicate at Napier in a dispute in which the respondents are the Tailoress's Union, and the application is rtlade By Gleorge Davis, Ltd.