PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Anglican Bishop of Waiapu (the Rt. Key. \V. L. Williams) is visiting liotarua. Captain and Mrs. Robert Scott, of England, are amongst the visitors to the Okoroire Hotel. Mr Paul Hansen has purchased Mr Patterson's residence at the corner of Beach-road, Lake Takapuna. Sister Josephine has been elected Key. Mother of the Sisters of Mercy in the Auckland district. 'The Key. Mother Ignatius was htr predecessor in that olfice. The. report that Mr A. E. G. Rhodes intended being a candidate for the Avon seat at the next general election is denied by our ( liristihurch correspondent, who wires that Mr Rhodes has no such intention. Mr W. Berry, senior member of the Hansard stall", lias been np|K>inted in charge of the reporting work of the Land Tenure Commission. K. A. Loughnan, of Wellington, has been appointed secretary to the Commission. Mr Frank Murphy, the head teacher of the Pueroa district school, and his wife, whom he married recently, returned yesterday in the Manuka from their honeymoon trip to Melbourne and Sydney. Mr, Zimmerman, a prominent and wealthy banker in Los Angeles. California, who is making a tour of the world, vi present staying at the Okoroire Hotel. Amongst ilie visitors to Wellington is Mr W. Deniston Roebuck, of Leeds, England, ami n Fellow of the Linnaean Society, lie is about to visit Rotorua, going there by way of the Wanganui River. The Auckland police force has been strengthened by the addition of live men, which will enable twn extra constables to be stationed at Newton, and one extra nt Newmarket. Auckland city. and Wailii. Mr L. L. R. Hansburg, of the London Philatelic Society, arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. He is making a tour of the colonies, in order to get information for a new book on Aiivtraliun philately ihat is to be published by the Society. Mr. Browne, stationmaster at Redfern, Sydney, the principal railway depot in New South Wales, is at present at the Okoroire Hotel. He has been to Rotorua, and has returned to Okoroire, where he spends some time - before proceeding on his tour round the world. Mr R. M. Houston, M.H.R., was entertained by his friends, political and otherwise, at a b.inquet at Mangonui last week, in recognition of his services as chairman of the Mangonui County Council for the past 20 years. The hall was crowded to the doors with visitors, and the greatest enthusiasm was shown.

Dr. Hoeken. who has been in Auckland for a day or two, is on his way to the Bay of Islands, where he is to gather material from private records for his works on "Early New Zealand" and "Life of Marsden." He and Professor Henderson, of Adelaide, were entertained yesterday by Sir John Logan Campbell, and driven by him through Cornwall Park to the top of Maungakiekie.