PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 140, 15 June 1893, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr Nixon, tide-waiter at Lytfcelton, is to bo made Collector of Customs ab New PJymouth. Mr Thomas Murphy, officer in charge of Now Plymouth, becomes tidewaiter ab Lyttelton. Mr Leo Myers, prior fco leaving A tick- i land for London by the New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Rangitikei,, was entertained on May 29th at a sraoke! concert in the British Hotel, by the members of the Auckland Swimming Club. Among visitors to Wellington is Mr J. Veitcb, of the well-known English Horticulturist firm, who is travelling the world in eearch of new plants. Ho has spent two years in the work, and expects to be ten weeks in New Zealand. He says a good many New Zealand plants are already acclimatised ab Home, especially pittas porum and veronica, bub many of them only grow in a half-hearted way. Mr I3aac Holden, M.P., who has just been created a baronet, is the owner of an estate ab Te Aroha, which was for some time occupied by his brother, Mr George Holden, senior, who i 3 now eighty years of age, and resides ab Epsom. Mr Holden's nephew is manager in Auckland for Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co. His eon, Mr Angus Holden, is M.P. for Buckrose, and his son-in-law, Mr Alfred Illingworth, is M.P. for Bradford West. Sir Isaac is now in his eighty-seventh year, and enjoys splendid health, which he attributes, in a large measure, to spare diet, including a predominance of fruit and the avoidance of foods containing lime, and regular walking exerciee; tins ho still perseveres with through all weathers. He has had a very, remarkable career, amassing, during bis own lifetime, a vast fortune, the foundations of which rested upon various valuable inventions which were the producb of biß, genius,