PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 126, 28 May 1903, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Hon. Mr McGowan is visiting iWestland. The Key. H. A. Raynes has held successful meetings at New Plymouth and Wanganui. Professor Brown has been elected to represent the Professorial Board of Victoria College on the University Senate. The Rev. Mr Gilles, who is to take over the Tauranga charge of the Presbyterian Church, has arrived in Auckland from Thnani, and will proceed to Tauranga to-morrow. Mr Herbert Andrews, at one time editor of tlie "Wanuate Witness," Taranaki, and later on of the "Worcester Standard," South Africa, has been appointed editor of a paper in Bulawayo. Major Coyle, officer in charge of the Wellington and Auckland submarine mining stations, who has been engaged for some time in blowing up rocks in Opunake harbour, is at present in Wellington. The Kit. Rev. S. T. Nevill, Bishop of Dunedin, and Acting-Primate, paid a visit to the home of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Grey-street, and expressed his approval of the work being carried on. Mr J. Parkes, late manager of the Onehunga Woollen Mills, who leaves for America by the mail steamer to-morrow, was entertained in the Public Hall, Onehunga, last night, by a large number of friends. A very old resident in the Hawera district, Mr John Minhinnick, died last ■week, aged eighty-three years, sixty-two of which were spent in the colony. He was a guide to the British troops during the Maori war. There is reported to be some feeling in Kelson against the retirement of the Collector of Customs, Mr Wilson Heaps. Mr Heaps joined the service in 18G4, and became Collector at Nelson in 1881. For some years past he has acted as warden and Stipendiary Magistrate, and generally occupied an important administrative position. Dr. P. Gow, eldest son of Mr Graham Gow, New Zealand Government Commissioner of Commerce, ha-s been appointed an assistant house surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Preston, Lancashire. Dr. Gow studied for some time in the Otago Medical School, but got his degree at London. Mr J. H. Woodhouse, who is to be married shortly, was presented by the j railway employees at Thames, where he| is stationmaster, with a set of table cutlery. Mr Bell, of Shortland station, in making the presentation, referred to the very good feeling existing between the different members and the stationmaster. The Rev.. James Duncan, of Foxton, is the oldest Presbyterian minister in New Zealand. He attained the age of ninety on Ist February. He is still physically active. His eyesight is so good that he often reads without spectacles, and his j mental faculties are unimpaired. He has j been resident in the colony for upwards of sixty years, and is a thorough Maori scholar. Mr Geo. Paton, general traffic manager of Natal Railways, has just completed a short tour to this colony, under the arrangements of Thomas Cook and Son. When in Rotoura he was fortunate to be present at the phenomenal display of the Waimangu geyser, which took place last Monday, as mentioned in another column. The sight, Mr Paton says, was not to be described in words, and the remembrance of it will live with him as -one of the wonders ot the world. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" cannot be said to apply to the Sultan of Jahore, who is now in Australia. His Highness, remarks an Ade- | laide contemporary, judging from his de- j meanour on board ship, does not trouble j very much about affairs of State when | travelling. During the passage from ! Colombo, where he, his wife, and suite embarked, the Sultan was the life and soul of the passengers, and his joviality earned for him the soubriquet of "The Merry Monarch." Sir Hartley Williams, who has retired from the Victorian Supreme Court', Bench, is a native of Victoria, having i been born at Collingwood in 1843. He j graduated at Trinity College, Oxford,! in 1866, was called to the Bar at the In- ) ' ncr Temple in 1867, and admitted to the \ [ Bar of the Supreme Court in Victoria j in the following year. After two unsuc-! cessful attempts at election to the Le" , - j islature, Sir Henry took no further part ! in politics. 'He was appointed to -the I [ Supreme Court Bench twenty-two years j : ago. ; The Hon. F. B. Suttor, who has been i: appointed President of the Legislative j Council of New South Wales, in succes- j sion to Sir John Lackey, previously oc- i cupied the position of Viee-President.! He first entered the Lower House in j 1875 as member for Bathurat—where he j was born sixty-four year ago. After I representing the city of his birth for J4 j years, during which time he held at dif- \ ferent periods the portfolios of Justice, : Mines, Education, etc., Mr Suttor was' defeated on accepting office in the Dibbs Government of 1899. He was then nominated to the Legislative i Council. In 1891 he resigned from the Council and successfully contested 'the Bathurst seat, soon after which he became Minister of Education under Sir | George Dibbs. Subsequently Mr Sut-1 tor w.as re-appointed to the Legislative! ( ' Council. j "*