PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 33, 7 February 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

: Dr. Eitehett is at present, visiting . JKellingion. Dr. Marshall went South to-day in the _oioiti. Mrs. -(Justice.) Edwards returned from ~ ' "the SoTrih by the s.s. Rotoiti to-day. "Mr -Tostice Cooper is on a visit to having arrived there on Saturday. Captain Bin»iiani. A.D.C. to His Excellency the Governor,left for the South by the Rarawa yesterday. The Minister for Customs. Hon. C. H. _srs. has returned to Wellington after 3 visit to his constituency. The Hon. C. Louisson. M.L.C is to be *n ailnw- himself to be nominated for the Christchurch Mayoralty. Dr. Vaiintlne. acting-Chief Health Officer for the Colony, was a passenger from Onehunga by the Eotoiti for Wellington this afternoon -T. J. O'Brien, nf the Leyland O'Brien Timber Company, left for a trip to tbe South by the Manuka yesterday. The Rev. A. K. Edgar. Superintendent of The Melbourne Central Methodist -Mission, i- now on a visit to New Zealand. The Board of Education this morning appointed Mr Ralph D. Stewart as an inspector of x-hools in the Auckland district. Dr. B'air. who -ha-s been appointed junior medical assistant at the Auckland Hospital, arrived from the South by the Rotoiti to-day. Mr John Barr. who leaves the New Zealand TjffiasP on I«"tb. inst. to join - the "Sydney Daily Telegraph." has received a handsome presentation from his former colleaguies. During the absence of Mr William Gray in Europe, -the duties of Secretary to the Post- and Telegraph Department will be carried out by Mr T. Rose, {he Assistant-Secretary and Inspector. Mr F. Brady and Miss Brady, of Wellington, left the capital city on a visit to Auckland yesterday, coming.np the Wanganui and through the Lake district. The Rev. -T. McW_iams, who has . been resident missionary to the natives in the Otaki district (Wellington) for 37 years, has retired, and will take up his residence in this city. He will be succeeded by a young native minister. Mr F. B. Gormley, who has been in the employ of Messrs Eempthorne Prosser arid Co. for some time, and who is leaving the Srm to open a business in Auckland In conjunction with Mr Cock of New Plymouth, was yesterday presented with * pair of silver entree dishes by his fellow employees. St- the nomination of candidates for "the Dunedin Harbour Board, the retir- - ingmembers were elected, except in the " eases "of Mr "W." Dawson, -who- did not stand, and wgs replaced by Mr C. W. Rattray and "the Hon. H. Gourley. the cßalrman, to" oppose whom the Rate--Association have nominated Mr James' Small. -Dr. Cockayne, whose researches in the field of botajiy are widely known in the scientific world, has just returned to Chrisichuxeh .after a tour among the beauty spots of New Zealand. He has been abroad since October, and his tra- " vels nave taken' him fronr Orepuki, in the South Island, to the far end of the Kairm Vaßey line in the North, in quest of material for his book on the vegetation of New Zealand and neighbouring islands, making a volume for the encyclopaedia." work entitled "The Vegetation of the Earth." which is now being published in Europe. A pleasing function took place last evening at Mr. W. H. Hemingway's Opening lecture to accountancy candidates, when Mr.-I- Esam. last year's .senior candidate, was presented with six volumes of. an advanced work on accountancy. Mr. Hemingway, who made the presentation, mentioned the fact that the greatest credit was-dne to Mr. Esam-in topping the; list of fellowship candidates, as Mr. Esam had worked under the greatest disadvantages owing to ill-health. In fact, in the very last paper of the examination, Mr. Esam .was stricken with an attack of hemorrhage, yet, on being wrapped in wet towels, he stack manfully to his paper to the end. and was rewarded with the "ratifying result of not only passing, but having his name first in the Est. Mr. Esam suitably responded, returning Mr. Hemingway thanks for his very useful and Valuable gift, and assuring him that it -would be always highly appreciated by pirn. *