PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 215, 9 September 1903, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs Allen and party, of "Allendale," Piako, are among the visitors at the Central.

Mr A. Savage, of Auckland, has acfcepted the position of bandmaster of the Hamilton .riand.

Mr A. Scobie has been appointed factory manager of the Thames Valley Cooperative Dairy Co. (Manawaru).

Mr A. East, manager of the butter facItory at Raglan, has decided to remove to another appointment at Poponui, jiear Hunterville.

Bishop Brozer, of the R.C. Mission at Samoa, travels from Sydney to Apia in the Ventura. He has been on a mission to the Solomon Islands.

The Earl and Countess of Lonsdale are passengers from Sydney tc the States by the incoming 'Frisco mail boat*

Mr Aldred, inspector of the Bank of !No\v Zealand for the middle circuit, has left on a visit to the Islands on three months' leave.

Mr A. Yi. Beattie, locomotive superintendent of the Railway Department, arrived in Ai!tekland by the West Coast boat.

The Rev. Mr Simmonds, 'who has been attending the Rhodes' scholarship conference in Wellington, returned to Auckland this morning.

His Lordship Dr. Neligan returned to Auckland this morning from Wellington, where he .has been staying AvithHis Excellency the Governor.

Miss E. Whitelaw, of Auckland, has been appointed leader of the second violins in the great musical festival which is being organised at Wellington.

By the Countess of Kanfurly goes Mr H. D. M. Hazard, district engineer forthe Thames goldfield, on a three months' trip to the Cook Islands. His health is not good.

Mr J. G. Lockie, son of Mr James Irockie (of H.M. Customs, Auckland), and an engineer on the Monowai, has gained a second engineer's certificate at Sydney. . Miss Macken has been appointed librarian of the new Whangarei borough library, which is to be openeld on the 17th inst. There were 15 applicants for the position. Mr T. A. Grady. the travelling representative of the Oceanic S.S. Co.. who has been visiting the Southern portion of the colony, has reached Auckland. He ■will spend a few days in Rotorua,

'Mr Percy B .Adams, M.A., of the prominent firm of lawyers known as Adams and Kingdon, in Nelson, was a passenger by the West Coast steamer to Auckland to-day. He joins the American mail boat here en route for London. •

The Rev. Ptvid Bruce, D.D., is the Moderator-elect of the General Presbyterian Assembly. He is the senior minister of j St. Leonard's Ch'trch, Sydney, and a prominent man Lα home missionary work. Mr T. E. Donne, superintendent of the Tourist Department, is in Auckland today and proceeds on visit to theWaitomo caves, Te Aroha, Ilotorua, Waikdremoana, and thence by Napier back to Wellington

Captain S. C. Caulton, late of the Seventh Contingent, who was seriously wounded at Bothasberg, is now in the tospitai for the amputation of his forearm. He has never been quit? .outof the doctor's hands 4nce the fateful fpgagenitrit. . Mr Hanson Turton, who is to retire on a pension of £380 per annum, has teen in charge of the Land Transfer Department in Dunedin for many years. • Bishop Grimes has returned to Cttnstchureh after a two-months' tour of the West Coast.

A Thames paper records that a strange fatality-seems to follow the Warbricks. W. Warbrick has been dead some time; Arthur Warbrick was not long ago drowned while ferrying at Ohiwa, Bay of Plenty, and J. Warbnck was killed at the Waimangu geyser.

Dr. Parkin, who held a conference •with" educationalists at Wellington on the Rhodes' scholarship conditions, intends to a do a little touring in the colony, arid he has begun by visiting Wanganui, from which town he makes his way overland to Rotorua and Auckland. . . ■, ~ , A party of tourists, consisting ot Mr H E. Kelly, and his sister, Mrs Armour, from the States, and Mr and Mrs J. H. Saunders, from England, at present at the Central Hotel, were members oi the excursion party to Waimangu on Sunday 30th August, and were eye-wit-nesses of the explosion which was attended with such sad results. There Avill be a big tangi at thy Thames on account of the death of the celebrated Maori chief Nikorima Foutotara, which has occurred at Parawai. He W as a man of fifty-five years, the son of Riwai te Kiore, and had done good service in the Native Land Court and the Anglican Church. He was much respected in the district, and he was a diplomatist of no mean order. Dr A. Challinor Purchas had a narrow escape from having his motor smashed up yesterday afternoon, but from enquiries made at his house lie seems to have escaped without miv.eh damage, ltio car skidded on the greasy tram rails, and slewing round came into collision with one of the mid-r.oad tram posts. Fortunately neither Dr. Purehau nor his man was much hurt, and the motor escaped serious damage.