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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 239, 7 October 1903, Page 2

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f Cane papers record that ex-President feteyn is still progressing favourably at I Beichcnhall. Hia complete restoration to health is looked for. A memorial brass tablet to the memtnory of the late Professor Michel Clarke is to be placed in Canterbury ColSir Francis and Lady Winter have Hone to Rotorua for a few days. Sir pVancis is the Chief Judicial Officer in British New Guinea. Mr T. P. Clark, manager of the Waihi Company's battery, has text for RaroIsland for the benefit of Ins health. He is accompanied by Mrs Clarke. The appointment of Mr Edwin H. Humphrey to be. an inspector and grader in the Department of Agriculture is announced. Mr Humphrey takes np the position vacated by Mr T. C. Brash. Before he left the Dunedin Post Office Mr Edmund Cook, who has resigned the Chief Postmastership, was presented jwith several costly pieces of furniture by the members of the staff. Mr Cook jjvas 46 years with the postal service. Mrs Mackav, hostess of the Commercial Hotel, Whangarei, has purchased the (Junction Hotel at Thames. Mr W[Rogers, son of the outgoing licensee (Mr (A. Rogers) remains as manager, and Mrs Ddackay takes possession in a couple of jp-eeks. The Honourable Spencer Lyttelton, of london, left yesterday for Rotorua, en route to Wellington, via the Wanganui friver. Messrs Thos. Cook and Son have Arranged this trip by special conveyances, as time will not allow of this gentleman's making a lengthy stay on the road. Messrs Thos. Cook and Son advise us jbf the following visitors who are in the Lake District from America and England: Mr and Mrs W. Fogg (of New [York City), Mr F. S. Heath (of Cheshire, England). Mr Heyrick Palmer (of Sussex, England), and Mr Brigstock (of iStoke-Newington). The pictures by Mr Goldie, which 3bave been presented to the Countess of Ranfurly, have had attached to them ithe stipulated notice, and are being exhibited in the window of the British and Foreign Piano Company. In the exhibition opened by the New Zealand [Academy of Fine Arts at Wellington to-day there is a life-size portrait of !Lord Northland by Mr Goldie. Miss McCowan, teacher at the Rehia School, was given a farewell social before iher resignation from the school took effect. The children and her friends gave iher a set of silver salt-cellars and a icase of silver spoons on that occasion. ' Mr Tyser, of the Tyser Steamship Co., ftnd. Captain Todd, superintendent in [New Zealand for the same company, arrived from Napier to-day for the purpose of inspecting the s.s. Niwaru prior Jo her being floated out of clockMr and Mrs Mcßoberts, of Cawnpore, India, together with Mr and Mrs Moss, iof Freemantle, are at present on a short visit to New Zealand, and proceed to Rotorua on a hurried trip to this district under the arrangements of Thos. )Cook and Son.