PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the Governor left Auckland to-day by the express for a few days' fishing in the country. He returns on Friday. Yesrterday afternoon a very successful garden party was held at Government House. On Saturday next His Excellency presents the certificates won by successful students of the St. John Ambulance Society. The Rev. G. B. Monro, of Remuera, went South in the Takapuna to-day. Mr Justice Denniston was a passenger to the South by the Takapuna to-day. Dr. Murphy and Dr. O'Meehan were amongst the passengers to the South by the Takapuna to-day. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Bowler, of Gore, who arrived in Auckland a few days ago, went to Rotorua to-day. Captain R. G. Hut ton, of the Taviuni, who went South a few days ago, is returning in the Mararoa from Lyttelton to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Draffin, of Auckland, have been spending a holiday at Napier, and return to-morrow by the Tarawera. Mr Alison Smith, formerly of the New Zealand Railway Department, has been appointed locomotive superintendent for the US-old Coast Railways. Sir Edward Osborne-Gibbes, acting Under-Secretary for Education, who has been with Lady Osborne-Gibbes spending a short holiday, went South yesterday by the Rarawa. Mr. Kinsella. the Government Dairy Expert, will be at Invereargill on the 23rd inst.. to attend the meeting of the South Island Dairy Association. Mr. T. 11. Davey, M.H.R., who has commenced business as a land and estate agent in Christchurch, has been appointed a sub-agent for the State Fire insurance Department. Lady Clarke, of Melbourne, mother of Sir Rupert Clarke, and Miss Clarke, who have been on a visit to the Southfin Lakes, arc on their way to the Hot Lakes. Dr. Nolan Fell, the ex-Kelson College and Otago University three-quarter, and one of Edinburgh University's finest scoring bucks, is ou a six months' visit to New Zealand. Mr A. C. flanlon, the well-known criminal lawyer, ij mentioned as a likely candidate inline Liberal interest for that portion of the city which Mr Bedford contests. Mr. J. H. Phillpot. who recently resigned from the position of organist uf St. Paul's Church, has been appointed organist and choirmaster at St. Matthew's Church. Mr. R. E. Bannister, of the "N.Z. Times" management, and Mr. M. J. Brooks, manager of the Dresden Piano Company in Wellington, went to Rotorua yesterday, and intend to. call in at Te Aroha and Okoroire. According to country papers, Mr. Newton King, Mayor of Stratford, will contest the Patea seat next election in the Government interest. Mr. R. E. Hornblow has decided to contest the Rangitikei seat. While in New Plymouth recently the Premier paid a visit to Mrs Patterson, of Lepper-road, widow of the late Mr Patterson, who, it will be remembered, was one of the first New Zealanders to die in South Africa during the war. The R.C. Archbishop of New Zealand (Dr. Redwood), who is making a tour of Europe, is returning to the colony in March next, and it was resolved at a public meeting in Wellington that an address of welcome and a purse of sovereigns should be presented to him when he got back. Mr. Charles J. Glidden, who left Auckland last week for Wellington in his motor car, has got through the worst part of his journeyi having arrived at Napier yesterday. He is not displeased with the roads on the whole, although he sayß there are several danger points that should he guarded. From Napier he goes to Wanganui, and thence to Wellington and the South.