PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 180, 29 July 1904, Page 2

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the Governor and Suite will pay a visit to Dunedin nexl month. On Saturday, the 20th prox., the viceregal party will leave Christchurch by special train, arriving in ihinedifj the same day. They will leave Dunedin for Christchureh and Wellington on the succeeding Wednesday.

Mr F. W. Lanp. M.H.R.. was re-elect ed a vice-president of the Counties Con lerence yesterday , .

Mr Murray, Auckland representative on the New Zealand team's selection committee, has returned to Auckland.

The appointment of Captain Hugh Boscawen as Hon. A.D.C. to His Kxcpllency the Governor (Lord Plunket) is gazetted.

Mr J. Petford, chairman of the Parnell School Committee, who has been confined to his homo for the past few weeks, is now able to resume his duties.

The Hon. J. Carroll is proceeding to Gisborne in connection with the death of his adopted child, a bright little girl, aged six, who was a favourite.

Mr R. McMab, M.H.R., who is touring Auckland province, returned from the Bay of Islands, via Whangarei, last niyht. It is understood that he will visit the .Northern Wairoa before returning to the South.

The Christchureh "Press" says that Captain , Adams, of the steamer Whangape, is now making a good recovery from his recent severe illness. Ij is expected he will be weli enough to return to his home in Wellington in the course of a dew days.

A pleasing ceremony took place this afternoon in the rooms of the Auckland Institute of Marine Engineers, on the occasion of the departure of Mr. G. Gow for England to execute commissions for the Northern Steamship Company. There was a large attendance of over fifty members of the institute. Mr. Mclntyre occupied the chair, and after reading apologies for absence from several prominent members, proposed the toast, '"The King and the Royal Family." The chairman, after a eulogistic speech, handed Mr. Gow a very handsome dressing case, and wished him success in the name of the institute. The health of Mr. Gow was then proposed and drunk with musical honours. The recipient responded and thanksd the members for their handsome and ■useful present, and their expressions of regard and good wishes.

The Indradevi, which arrived from New York to-day, brings two distinguished visitors to our snores—'Mr Bay-ard-Stevens, son of Colonel B. Stevens, well-known in Washington diplomatic circles, and who was entrusted with a delicate mission to the German Court during the late trouble with China; and Mr A. C. Kelway, who has been editor of several English papers, the last being the "Church Review," London. Mr Kelway is a brother to the chief officer of the Indradevi. They will make an extensive tour of New Zealand with the object of acquiring information relative to the development of trade between the United States and this colony. Messrs Stevens and Kelway return to America by the R.M.s. Sierra on August 12.