PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 1 April 1905, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mi. A. L. D. Fraser, M.BLR. for Napier, left Auckland "this morning for Rotorua. A Press Association telegram reports that. Mt. C. A. Olsen, acting postmaster at Wairoa (Bawke's Bay), was taken suddenly ill last night, and lies in a precarious condition. The Auckland passengers to England by the Athenic on Thursday were: Messrs. A. H. Scott, A. E. Smith, H. Holland, and J. Varnozn, Mrs. A. S. G. and Misses E. and D. Graves, and Misses J. Crawley and K. Jamieson.

The death is announced of Mra. John McGill, of Pokeno Valley. She was one of the early settlers, having been in the colony for the past 40 years. She is survived by six sons and a large number of grand-children.

Mr. C. J. Glidden, who is making a motor-tour of the world, is at present in New South Wales, having toured through Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria previously. He had covered 23,547 miles up to the 24th of March.

Lady Hnnket told a good stoTy at the opening of Nurse Maude's Women's Consumptive Camp, at Christchurch, on Saturday. A sister of hers, who was a trained nurse, had told her that one of her patients in gratitude for her care to get her a situation when he was better as cook!

Mrs Hellaby and her two sons, Messrs John and Sidney Hellaby, who have been absent from Auckland for the past twelve months on a trip to Great Britain and Europe, reached Sydney by the Qmrah last Saturday. After spending a few weeks in New South Wales they will return to Auckland.

Bishop Neligan, who returned yesterday to Auckland from the North, leave. the city again on Tuesday for Waihi, Te Aroha, Paeroa, Karangahake, and Matamata, returning to Auckland on April 10. The Bishop, while in the North, consecrated the new Maori Church at Ahipara, and attended a meeting of the Maori Board. He addressed a public missionary meeting at Kaitaia on the Home, Melanesian, and Maori Missions.

Af the conclusion of the Seventh Contingent's connection with the South African campaign the officers and men presented ffie late Hon. Colonel H. F. White, to whose column the contingent was attached, with a gold watch and chain. Colonel White died some little time ago at Pietersburg, in the Transvaa, and Mr. Stuart Robinson, of Wellington, who was an officer in the Seventh Contingent, has received a letter from Lord Analley, a brother of the deceased, stating that the watch and chain are now in his possession. It will be gratifying to those who contributed towards the presentation to know that the token of esteem, so spontaneously given, is in safe-keeping.