PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 143, 18 June 1891, Page 7

PERSONAL.

A presentation of a purse of £320 has been made to Mr Miller, the late head gaoler at iNapier, who has been retrenched.

It is said thab the Hon. W. P. Reeves, Minister for Education, has parted with his interest in the " Lyttelton Times."

Mr Warwick Weston has succeeded the late Mr G. P- Pierce as general manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company.

Captain F. M. Hinckley, formerly master of the now celebrated ship Leading Wind, accompanied by his wife, finally left here on May 23rd for San Francisco by the X.M.S. Mariposa, en route to New York.

The recent changes in the Commissioners of Crown Lands are gazetted. Mr Spence's place in Westland will betaken by Mr J. H. Stranchon. The dismissal of Mr E. J. Robinson, clerk in the department of Trade and Customs, is gazetted.

The despatch from the Secretary of State for the colonies is gazetted stating that the Queen has been pleased to approve of Messrs Edwin Mitehelson, Thos. Fergus, George Frederick Richardson and Thomaa William Hislop being allowed to retain che title of " honourable " within the colony of New Zealand.

By the R.M.s. Mariposa on May 23rd Mr W. "Shepherd Allen, of Te Aroha, left for San Francisco, en ronto for England, accompanied by his wife and family, six in all. Mr Allen, it will be remembered, was recently elected M.H.K. for Tβ Aroha, but the election was upset.

A banquet was given atGisborneon Jun e 10 by Mr J. Townley, Mayor, to Mr WKelly, M.H.R. for the district. There were present about 200, the gathering being of a non-party character. All shades of opinion were represented. The principal subjects alluded to were harbour and native affairs. Most of the speakers were in favour of all lands being dealt with only through the Crown.

The employees of the New Zealand Tweed Company have presented a handsome inkstand to Mr Alexander Wilson, who has left the service of the Company in order to start in business for himself. The presentation was made b> Miss O'Flaherty.

A deputation from the employees ot Wingate, Burns, and Company waited upon Mr Wingate at the Star Hotel on June 12th, and presented him with a handsome album (containing the whole of their photos), on the fly leaf of which the following inscription ie beautifully illuminated : Presented to James Wingate, Esq., by the employees of Wingate, Burns, and Company, on the occasion of his retirement from the firm, as a small token of the groat esteem in which he is held by them. They also presented Mr Wingate with an albert chain.

Mr Hamerton, of che Public Trust Office ab Wellington, has only been granted one month's leave of absence. Mr J. K. Warburbon, accountant of tho Post and Telegraph Office, has been appointed to act temporarily as Deputy Public Trustee. Ib is stated that ib is improbable that Mr Hamerbon will, owing to ill-health be able to resume his official duties even at the expiry of the preeenb term of leave, in which case Parliament will be asked to provide a retiring allowance.

Mr Thomas Whitelaw, of the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, has joined the Staff of the South British Insurance Company, and wont to Dunedin by the steamer Te Ar.au on May 29th. Mr Whitelaw's departure from Auckland will bo greatly regretted by a very wide circle of friends. He has actively interested himself in religious and social movements in tho city, and to his energetic efforts as Treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association thepresentsatisfactory financial condition of that institution is very largely due. The South British Insurance Company may be congratulated upon having secured the services of a capable officer, whose energy and business experience will doubtless prove valuable to the institution.

On June 3rd Mr Thos. Mitchell, one of the popular commercial travellers of the Northern Boot Company, was presented with an address and a souvenir by his office and warehouse colleagues on the occasion of his bidding farewell to the office to take up an appointment with a Christchurch firm. Mr, A. C. Pbelps, who has been in the employ of Messrs Smith and Caughey, drapers, Queen-street, for tho last six years, was yesterday given a souvenir by his fellow-employees, as he is about to leave here for America. Two other presentations have also to be chronicled, one to Mr Hall, by his fellow employees in Dalton's, tailor's, on his leaving the firm; and the other by the employees of the South British Insurance Company, to Mr Henry Townsend, who is leaving town.

Mr T. A. Moresby, of the Gordon Cricket Club, has left Auckland for Wellington. Mr Moresby has for some years filled the position of Clerk ab the Supreme Court. In that capacity he has won the esteem of all who have been brought into contact with him. In athletic circles, however, his loss will be most severely felt. He is one of the representative cricketers who went South in the '89-'9O season. Mr Moresby is also known in yachting, swimming, gymnastic and social circles.

There was a large and representative as" sembly at the Auckland Club on May 27th» when a testimonial and purse of sovereigns were presented to Mr Harry Whitaker, who is about to take his departure from this city, where he has Jived for so many years, and has been so deservedly popular. His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. H. Upton) occupied the chnir, and there were also present the following subscribers to the testimonial :—Messrs G. B. Owen, W. J. Hill, Wai. Aitken, Capt. VV. H. Colbeck, T. Thorne George, £. D. Benjamin, W. McLaughlin, A. Devore, P. L. Dignan, John Bather, R- Garrett, J. H. Pond, S. Heaketh, Arthur Taylor, James Russell, H. Brett, J. S. Graham, VV. D. Bloomfield, Fred. Earl, J. Macfarlane, J. Coates, J. Mowbray, D. B. Tonks, A. E. A. Clark, R. K. Garlick; E. M. Coleman, F. R. Claude, W. R- Mowbray, Graves Aickin, J. P. A. Philson, C. Ranson, Dr. C. H. Haines, Arthur P. Wilson, W. S. Wilson, R. E. Isaace, J. D. Connolly, Hugh Campbell, J. C. Hanna, William Buchanan, • Edwin Hesketb, ■ Dr. W.

Haines, C. Schmitt, H. Bennett, T. H. Jackson, W. Wildman, T. Morrin, G. Ivil, W. G. Ivil, E. W. Alison, A. Hanna, Wm. Coleman, C. G. Andrews, H. Worsp, A. Nathan, J. L. R. Blomficld, Major F. Nelson George, J. F. Haultain, D. B. Cruickshank, T. J. Brassey, H. T. Gorrie, Alf. Porter, Puilan Armitu'ge, W. J. Bell, Pv. Cooni, H. Murchie, A. Carrick, John Reid, J. L). Williamson, H. O. Nolan, D. Nolan, Thos. Henderson, S. Jackson, C. F. Reid, Sir G. S. Whitmore, W. A. Ryan, E. W. Hanmer, T. C. Williamson, L. D. Nathan, C. J. Eller, W. H. Kettlewell, F. C. Sharland, Allan O'Neill, B. Owen, G. Harper, R. O. Young, J. M. Sharp, J. Frater, J. Winks, J. M. Alexander, W. Frater, Alfred Buckland, C. Houghton, F. W. Browning, J. Craig, F. E. Baume, W. li. Hazard, J. H. Cairns, Captain H. F. Anderson, S. Ehrenfried, J. Marshall, C. J. Hufcchinson, W. Philson, E. T. Dufaur, W. F. Lawry, H. Green, J. M. Dargaville, D. G. MacDonnell, W. Shera, W. S. Lyell, G. D. O Rorke, F. E. Wakefiold, Major Shepherd, Chas. King, Herman Brown, S. Kisslintr, Captain J. H. R. Harrison, H. Moss Davis, J. O. Owen. Mr Upton presented the following address :— "To Henry Ernest Whitakor, Esq.: Dear Sir, —■ We, the undersigned, your fellow citizens and friends, desire to express the sincere regret which the knowledge of your approaching departure has occasioned us. Wβ feol that it would be most unfitting to allow you to leave this community without offering you some practical assurance of the high estimation you have boen held in during the many years you have spent among us. In matters pertaining to business, your rare tact and ability have enabled you to carry to a successful issue all the undertakings you have engaged in, while socially there has hardly lived a man in this city who has enjoyed a popularity so widespread and so thoroughly merited. We assure you that your absence will be felt by all classes of society, and although out of sight you will never be out of the memories of those, and their namt

is legion, for whom by your exertions and your qualities of heart and mind life has been made pleasanter and the world brighter and more cheery. That you may reap a deserved and abundant reward in the new career you havo destined for yourself, and by-and-by return to your old friends in Auckland, is the sincere ar.d hearty desire of us all. In conclusion, and while saying farewell, we ask you to accept the accompanying purso of sovereigns.—We are, dear sir, yours sincerely. Auckland, May 27th, 1891." Mr Whibaker's health was drunk in flowing bumpers, and he suitably replied.