PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTE RS

VICE-REGAL. The Governor and the Counties of Liverpool jeturned to Wellington last night from the cruise of the Tutanekai in Queen Charlotte Sound, and left by special train' this morning for Dannevirke to attend the* A. and P. Show there. Their Excellencies -will come back to Wellington this evening. The Hon. W. F. Massey will return this evening from Marton, The Hon. W. H. Henries is in Taranaki, and will arrive here to-morrow evening. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes is at Mount' Cook. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher left this morning, with His Excellency the Governor, for Dannevirke, to -attend the A. and P. Show there. The Hon. W, Fraser left for, the South last night. The other Cabinet Minister* are in Wellington. Dr. A. M'Arthnr, S.M., left for Wa* ngantri to-day on Railway Appeal Board business. ' ' Mr. Stewirfc Dawson, headfrf the wellknown^ firm of jewellers, is at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. Ben Fuller was a passenger by the Maunganui from Sydney yesterday, on a brief business trip. Mr. G, Pearce, of Messrs. Levin and Co., and Mrs, Pearce will leave for a trip to England in April. Mr. Claude Slack, managing director Fraser, Ramsay, and Co., New Zealand, has left Wellington for Melbourne. A cable message from Melbourne states that the Chapman-Alexander mission parfcy« are passengers by the Moeraki .for New Zealand. Mr. W. Mowbray, sen., and Mr, C. E. Mowbray (Lower Hutt), and Mr. W. L, Mowbray (Messrs. Levin and Co.) will leave for England in April. Mr. Bell-Irving, of the Anglo-British Packing Company, and a prominent public man in British Columbia, is arriving in New Zealand shortly on a tour. The Attorney-General (the Hon. A. L. Herdman) left this morning t for Palmerston North, on legal business connected with Dominion affairs. He will return to-night. The Rev. 3. N. Buttle has been reappoinfced by the Methodist Conference as secretary 'of the Foreign Mission Fund, and, in view of his retirement from his circuit work and his desire to undertake mission- organising work he was voted an honorarium of £50. Mr. E. Caradus, B.Sc, assistant science and mathematical master at Wellington College, has been appointed ydence master at Auckland Grammar School in place of Mr. F. fieaton, M.A., who recently resigned to take over the heiulniastersbip of Napier Boys* High School. At the Globe Printing Company's Works ye&tarday Mr. H. M. Bayward, on behalf of the shareholders, presented the manager, Mr. Harry Yeoman (whose marriage took place to-day), with an afternoon tea tray, cake basket, hot water kettle, and afternoon tea set. The employee* of the company ako presented Mr. Yeoman with * flilver-mounted oak salad bowl. The senior members of the Wellington Hockey Club sprang rather a surprise on their captain (Mr. W, S. Morpeth) last evening. Ho was summoned to attend a meeting called ostensibly for business purposes. The ".business" was to present him with an enlarged photograph of the team, in appreciation of the groat services he rendered the club last F'-ason. Mr. W. E. Hall made the presentation, and said that the senior team at least owed a great deal to Mr. Morpeth's never-failing enthusiasm. "I should like to speak of another hero, 'Father* Gittos," said the Rev. C. H. Garland, when alluding at the Methodist Conference last night, to deeds of self ' Sacrifice, "Father" Gittos's rutme would probably never be known ii> the world, but h© had just stepped down from his post at the age of S3 years, after a lifo of heroic service. If there were statesmen alive to-day who were alive thirty years ago, Mr. Gittos would not be allowed to go into private life without some public recognition. Thirty years ago there had been hostile tribes, all ready for war, actually dancing the war dance, and they had gone quietly to their homes at the command of the missionary. He himself had found people in thoiKaipara living in a H<stit6 of security because they knew that this veteran missionary, "Father"' Gittoa, waa moving about -with his mana.