PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 228, 24 September 1903, Page 2

PERSONAL.

. Mrs Seddon leaves Wellington this Afternoon on a visit to Auckland. 1 The Rev. Mr MeWilliam, the mew Sri-car-of Te Awamuitu, will assume charge tof the parish at the beginning of next month. Captain Grant, of the Union Company, as to relieve Captain Hood as harbourmaster at New Piytmouitlh during the letter's month of leaveMr S. Brown, of the Arbitration (Court, left Auckland for Wellington in tUie Rotoiti to-day. He was accompanied by Airs Brown. Mr Joseph Mandel, who has sold his interest in the Empire Hotel in Wellington, intends to take Mrs Mandel for a tiiwo years' tour of the worldMr Walter Reed has been elected 'Worshipful Master of tho Taupiri 'Lodge (No. 118) of Masons at Hun-try. He wall be installed on October t>. The Rev. Mr Ratclill'e, who is the.new Sncumbent at the Hamilton Anglican Church, is expected in 'Auckland from England by the middle of next month. Victor Da lev, it appears, is not dead. He called at Sydney '-Bulletin's" office the other day, and indignantly denied the allegation. "Friends will please accept this intimation."' Mr (J. Drown, E.A., assistant master at the Cambridge District High School, was given a picture and a pair of vases by the teachers and pupils of the school respectively, as a wedding gift. The members of the Mushroom Dramatic Club at Rortorua have given .Miss Malfroy a pretty gold necklet and greenstone heart as a parting gift, on the occasion of he.r leaving the club.

A Press Association telegram from AVhangairei states on re-lia.bl'e private 'authority that General Booth will visit New Zealand in January next, commencing a tour of the colony at Auckland. Rotorua visitors who know __r James Melville, of Messrs Robertson and Oo.'s coaching establishment, will be glad to hear that be has returned to duty in Rotorua after spending considerable time in the Auckland Hospital with an injured knee-cap. The Rev. W. Gray-Dixon was a passenger for New Plymouth by the Rotoiti. He has promised to take the anniversary services for the Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott at the Presbyterian Church in Kent parish, Wellington. He hopes to he back before the end of next week. Captain Courbarron, of the s-s. Aparima, is ill in the South with rheumatic fever. It is understood that ' Captain McDonald, of the Mono wad, will join the Aparima, Captain Worrall taking charge of the Monowai. The latter's position on the Takapuna has been filled by Captain Williams. The local hon. representative of the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M., London, has received cabled advice that Mr David Langley, the examiner for the practical examinations, will arrive from Sydney by the Sierra on Friday, October 2nd, and not on Sept. 28th, as previously notified in our columns.

It is probable that the Rev- G. March, native minister at Whangarei, will be removed from that district to the Waikato, where the need of a vigorous experienced native minister is thought to be great. If the transfer takes place, the Rev. R. Te Kerehoma, ordained deacon a few days ago, will take his place at Whangared. Colonel Sonuei-ville, manager of the Veterans' Home, will be in Auckland at the end of October to take charge of. the institution. He will enter into residence at the Home and supervise the reception of the pensioners as they came, so as to ihave the place in order in time for the opening in the middle of November. Mr Savage, who went up to Hamilton to take charge of the Hamilton Brass Band, held his first practice with it on Monday last, and was afterwards entertained by hire members at a social, at which the Mayor of Hamilton presided. Mr Savage said that if the members paid proper attention to his teaching he saw no reason why the band should not be soon one of the best in New Zealand.

Dr. Neligan, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, is .maintaining his reputation for activity, and bids fair to become as renouned as the Premier of New Zealand for rapid travelling. He has been familiarising himself with his diooese in all parts by paying flying visits to the different centres, stirring the parishioners into sudden life by his dominating energy. He left Auckland for Whangarei last Monday night, held services and.meetings there during the'vveek, and returned to Auckland by 'the boat reaching here to-night. He leaves again for Cambridge to-morrow morning to hold a confirmation service there to-morrow, and he will be back on Monday. He will visit Tuakau and Pokeno on the 29th for the same purpose. All October the Bishop will be in Auckland preparing for his first meeting with his Synod, which begins its session on October 25. About twelve months ago Mr Tennyson Smith, of Birmingham, England, was appointed by the Society of Temperance Ironsides to officially investigate the -working of prohibition in the United States; and! about six months ago he was appointed as round-the-world missionary in connection with the "Worldwide Pledge-signing Crusade" scheme, inaugurated in America on -November 23, 1902, and in the United Kingdom on January 10, 1903. In March last, however, he was appointed editor of the new temperance paper, "The Christian Temperance Vanguard," and in consequence of this and aLso in view" of the crisis whioh has arisen in temperance affairs in the United Kingdom Ire has decided to postpone his projected tour abroad: but he hopes to arrange to make the tour next year.