PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1904, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Native Minister (Hon. J. Carroll) will remrn from the Manawatu to-night. The Premier and the Minister for Railways (Hon. Sir J. G. Ward) returned from the South to-day. Mr. F. J. M. D. Walmsley's appointment as Deputy-Commissioner of Taxes is gazetted. The Dairy Commissioner (Mr. J. A. Kinsella) left Auckland for Wellington yesterday. The Mayot of Jtifiramar, Mr. F. Townsi end, has been sworn in as a Justice of the Peace. Mr. C. T. Kerslake", of Palmerston North, who had been on a world's tour,' returned to Wellington by the Manuka this morning. Mr. A. E. Gibbes, President of the Garrison Band and Football Association Bazaar, has been presented with a smoker's companion in recognition of his services in connebtion with the bazaar. The following visitors tt> the city are staying at the Empire Hotel;— Mr. and Mrs. C. Greaves, Messrs. F. Coffey, -J. Alderson, W. H. Lester, W. E. Woods, all of Sydney, and Mr. John Meighan, of Melbourne. Now that the Town Hall is almost completed, and the services of the Clerk of Works (Mr. Short) are drawing to a close, the Mayor and City Councillors took occasion last evening to speak in high terms of the able manner in which Mr. Short has carried out his duties, At last night's meeting of the Wellington District Ancient Order of Foresfcefs, Bro. G. R-enai, P.D.C.R., was presented with the Neck Ribbon and his name was ordered to be placed on thfe Merit Board. Bro. Renai is to be presented, at a meeting of his own court, with a framed certificate and an inscribed gold jeweJL Captain Chas. L. Diamanti, who arrived in the Bay of Islands sixty-eight years ago in a whnleboat, with another survivor, from New Caledonia, where he had been wrecked, is at present on a visit td Wellington. He has been a resident of Waka« marina (MaTlborough) during the j?ast forty years. The captain is in his ulfehtysevenih year, and is still hale and hearty. Mr. A. E. Carter, who has resigned his position on the Petone Borough clerical staff, was made a handsome presentation by tho Borough officials last even* ing. The Mayor (Mr. G. London), on behalf of the donors, expressed regret at Mr. Carter's severance of his connection with the office, and paid a high tribute to his work on the 6taff and t» his personal character. The funeral of the late Mr. James Wallace, for many years secretary and manager of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, took place at Shannon yesterday, and was very largely attended. The Mana^atu Railway Company waa represented by its Chairman (Mr. John Kirkcaldie) and several of Ac directors and also by those of the officers who served under Mr. Wallace up to the timo he retired from the service in 1894/ Miss Amy (Jowan was married to Mr Samuel Luke in the Congregational Churob, Newtown, yesterday afternoon by the Rev. W. A. Evans, assisted by thoi Rev. B. L. Thomas. The bride was attended toy Misses Luke and Cowan, sister* of the bridegroom and bride respectively,, and Messrs. Chas. Page and George. Cowan waited upon the bridegroom. Mr. E. Bold played the Wedding March, and the choir led the singing at the service, as the bride was a member of the choir. The church was packed to overflowing. There were 142 applications for the position of custodian to the Town HfcU. The Staff Committee of the City Council re'dueed • this number to six, and \hn Council in committee last night considered the matter and reduced the six to two. We lenun to-day that Mr. T. W. Leslie, <at. present head storeman fox the Wellington warehouse of the'Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, hae been appointed to %& position. H* is to take up 'his duties at once, going into residence in the building t«-uiorr,o\v,