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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 200, 22 August 1905, Page 2

Captain Wheei?r weut to Nh.pi'?? ia tie iLodzuL to-day. Mr, Geo. Fowlds, M.HJU returns to WeJfingtfon to-morrow. - -,\Mt. and Mrs. Robert Buchanan, of One,jfunga 5 went to Kotorua to-iay. Gapt. Nordatruii) and Ms wife went to the Islands in the Navua Jo-day. Jfr. S. H. Wing, passenger clerk of the Union S.S. Co. at Auckland, went for a trip to the Islands in tie Navua. Dr. Stuart B. Reid who has been, to Europe for a holiday, returned to Auckland yesterday as surgeon of the N.Z. Shipping Co.'s steamer PapanuL Miss Fitzmaurjce Gill and Messrs. Macmahon Bros/ Dramatic Company returned from Wtangarei this raorningj and left by the Moana for Gisborne. Judge Dunbar Johnson, of the Na- ! tire Lands Court, left Auckland for Tau- i po this morning, iirs. Johnson having j got well along the road to recovery after her late serious illness. Mr. Hooper, chief officer of the Hinemoa, who has been in England for eight , months putting in bis Royal Naval Re- j eerve drill, has returned to the colony, | and will resume his duties on the Hine- I iiioa next week. Mr. P_ W. Stuit, of Hamilton, has left that town in order to live in Adelaide (S.A.). Before he departed the members of the St. Andrew's class presented him with several handsome books as a memento of his relations with • them. Passengers by the lonic for Lon lon included Misses I. and 0. Papayanni. of Liverpool, who have been making a tour of New Zealand. The late father of the two young ladies was the founder of the Papayanni line of st. amers. which trade exclusively between Liverpool and Eastern Mediterranean ports. Mr. J. S. Kelly, who is a son of Mr. J. Liddell Kelly, present editor if the "N.Z. Times," and formerly sub-editor J of the "Auckland Star." has been ap- i pointed to the editorship of the "Grey ; River Argus. "* He was at one timi- on j the literary staff of the "Poverty Buy I Herald." and at the time of his appoint- j ment on that of '"Christchurch Press."' Among the passengers who left Wellington by the lonic were Messrs. A. B. Wiles and D. L. Gibson, two young Queensland sugar-planters. Their reason for leaving that State, emphatically expressed, is the great depression which exists in the sugar-cane raising industry, consequent upon legislation regarding the employment of black labour in the plantations. The Rev. J. R. Flynn-Anderson. of South Africa, left Auckland to-day for the Islands, where he spends a couple of months. He has been five months in the <X)lony, and having become interested in our polities, he has decided to postpone his return to Africa till after the I general elections. He returns to .•Mickland in October. The climate of the colony has benefited him a great deal. Mr. Tom Morrison, who used to be a member of thp Parliamentary Press Gallery at Wellington, has left Napier for Christchurcb on account of his health He is one of the most interesting figure* in journalism in the colony. He arrived here in IS6I in the Minerva, and took tip a position on the "Hawke's By Herald," becoming eventually part proprietor. Then he sold out aeain. but retained his place in journalism. Before lie left Napier for Christchurch he wns presented with a purse of sovereigns, a gold-mounted cigarette holder, and a silver cigarette case, gifts from his numerous friends. Mr. Morrison will eventually return to Napier. The death occurred at Dunedin on Sunday of Joseph Lo Keong. a well-known Chinese resident of Dunedin, at the a<re of 71. Deceased came to New Zealand 40 years ago, and entered into business in Dunedin, where he was widely respected. He married 43 years ago. and his family of three sons and three daughters are all in good positions. One son is a dentist in Timaru. and the eldest daughter is a successful teacher of music in Dunedin. Lo Keong was an elder pi the Chinese Church in Walktr-street.

Mr. G. Rolton. who died so tragically at Thames, was a very old resident of Thames, and had been employed by the British men-of-war as a rule a* pilot when they were in the Gulf. He was also master of Mr. Jas. Maekay's .yacht. A widow (his second wife), some grownup sons, and several young children surTive him.