PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1904, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Brereton-Barry. of the School Qi Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin, is making a tour of the colony just now. General Babington and Captain Campbell left Wairakei lor Rotorua by motor Car this morning. Mr and Mrs X. A. Carminer, who were : married on Wednesday, went to Tβ Aroha yesterday ior their honeymoon, j and afterwards go on to Rotorua. Mr Mitchell, of the firm of Mitchell and Watt, architects to the Education j Board, is at present in the Whangarei district inspecting the school buildings, j Mr William Allan, of Hawera. who i was a member of the Eighth Contingent, j has died in the Hawera Hospital lioiu J typhoid. Archdeacon Averill and the Rev. J. P. j Kempihorue wen: South this morning ty the Rotoiti. The Hon. T. Y. Duncan. Minister for I Lands, is ..-xpected iv arrive in Auckland i by the express to-night. He travelled overland ironi Wellington by way of \ Stratford, j Mr. A. Warbrick. chief guide toi the ' Tourist Department, is in town. Dr.Wohluiann is expected back in Auck- j land district, from the South. He has ; been all through the southern health, resorts, even as far south as Stewart j island. Dr. Collin?. senior medir-al officer at ihe Auckland Hospital, has returned j from his three weeks" holiday at the ILaugitaiki, near G-alutea, where he and a friend caught 277 rainbow trout, j weighing 6101bs. The headmaster of the Manawaru school (Mr Keaney) has been presented \ v/ith a rattan tea-table and other house- j cold articles on the occasion of his marriage. These, with an address, were \ presented by the school children. In ! the evening the committee presented a pair of hall curtains and a hearth-rug, and the residents entertained the new-ly-married couple. The Hon. Charles Hill-Trevor. A.D.C. to Lord Raniurly. intends to return to England by the Ruapehu. which leaves Wellington on Sunday. Mr Hill-Trevor came to New Zealand on the staff of His Excellency in 1597. The residents of Taumaranui gave a social by way of farewell to Mr George Body. Chief Inspector of the Public Works Department, just now supervising the construction on the railway there. Thi Hon. Mahuta arrived in the Kawhia district on Tue.-day. and was entertained at Mr Edwards" house, near Kasvhia. He went on afterwards to the native village of Maketu. where he received deputations and gave an address. Sergeant Phairs, of is to be presented with an illuminated address and a silver cruet by his friends on the occasion of his transfer to Rotorua. Mr John Knox, who recent lv removed from Hamilton to Parnell. is reported to have been confined to his bed almost, continuously since the beginning of the month, when he arrived in Auckland. Pastor Fusseli. of the Whansarei Baptist Church. ha~ been very ill for Borne time, and he has obtained a month* leave of absence to recuperate in. He rests at Kamo a while, and thei: comes to Auckland to take medical advice. A pioneer colonist passed away at Greytown last week in the person of Mrs Edwin Tieehurst. The deceased iady. who was born in Susses in ISI3, had lived during the reigns of live English monarchs. She arrived in Wellington in the .ship Adelaide in IS4O, with her husband. She leaves as descendants three children, thirty-six grandchildren, and forty-five great grandchildren. Under date of January 12, 1904, Con-BUI-General Dillingham was instructed by his Government at the request of the | Government of Panama to represent j the latter Government in Xew Zealand, and other South Sea and with him. all persons in the colony having business wth the Republic of Panama, should communicate. Miss Cox Taylor, who is visting New Ze. 'and on behalf of some Australian papers, went up to Cambridge this morning to visit the sanatorium, in which, the Australian people seem much interested. Miss Taylor comes back to Auckland to-morrow, and later goes on to Rotorua. on which she is going to write special articles. Mr. F. Tate, chief inspector of schools in Yictora, accompanied by Mr. Hobbs. chairman of the Auckland Education Board, Mr. Goodwin, inspector of schools, and Mr. Watt (architect), paid a visit to the Auckland Grammar School thi3 morning. Mr. Tibbs. the head-master, showed them over the building. Subsequently Newton West school was visited, Mr. Wf-bber. the head-master, explaining much of interest to his visitors. This afternoon Mr. Tate went to Onehunga to se* , the new school there. Helen Inglis I'ettigrew Whyte. the dux of the colony in the National Scholarship examination, was under 13 at the date on which the age was calculated. She is the eldest daughter of the Rev. Alexander Whyte, the granddaughter of Mr David Whyte. of Tiniroto. and a relative of the late Rev. Dr. Inglis, one of the earliest ministers of St. Andrew's Church, Auckland, and afterwards the Apostle to the New Hebrides. She was recently dux of the Havke's Bay examinations with a lead of 23 marks snd two years to spare; she wa.s dux of the Queen's scholarship examination with a lead of 39 marks and a year to spare; and now she is dux of the National Scholarship examination with a lead of 6 marks and a year to spare. -