PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Major MeKenzie went South by the Tafcapuna yesterday. Mr. J. C. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock in Auckland, is at present in Wellington. Mr H. P. Norton, of Messrs. S. Winterbourne and Co.. leaves for London by the yentura on Friday. Mr W. A. Boucher, Government pomologist, will be a passenger for San Francisco by the Ventura. Dr. Kenny, the resident medical officer of Te Aroha, returned last Saturday much benefited by his vacation. Captain Post, of the Tutanekai, who has been on sick leave for some weeks, will resume command of the vessel next week. Mr and Mrs Pharazyn, and party, of Wellington, are amongst the passengers for England by the mail steamer on Friday. The Rev. Thomas Fee, the newly-ap-pointed Methodist minister to the charge of the Hamilton circuit, is expected to arrive during the current week. The Rev. C. H. Garland, who has been transferred from the Pitt-street Methodist Church to the Nelson circuit, is spending a few days in Wellington. Mr Rarf, of the Union Bank, Palmerston North, has decided' to leave the bank's sen-ice and enter the Presbyterian Church. He is to take charge of the I'tiku station for a j'ear. Bis. Robert on and Inglis have been reelected chairman and secretary respectively of the Medical Committee of the honorary staff of the Auckland District Hospital. Mr A. W. Besant, shipping clerk for Messrs Williams and Kettle, limited, of Napier, died suddenly in the hospital yesterday afternoon. Deceased was very popular in shipping circles. Mr Seddon left Wellington for the South last evening. He will deliver a political speech at Rangiora on Wednesday, and will probably be hack in Wellington on Thursday morning. Mr and Mrs Alex. J. Laurie and Miss Laurie leave on a visit to Rotorua tomorrow. It is their intention in the course of a few months to go on an extended trip to Great Britain. Owing to the illness of the AuditorGeneral and Deputy-Auditor-General, the Government has been compelled to make a temporary appoiutment, and Mr J. W. Poynton, Public Trustee, has been appointed Deputy-Auditor-Gen-eral Mrs Wilson, wife of the Bishop of Melanesia, arrived in Auckland from Norfolk Island yesterday, and caught the Takapuna, en route to Christehurch, where she meets her Bishop Julius. Mr and Mr 3 George O'Malley arrived at Roekhampton from North Queensland on the 26th of last month. In October, 1594, they left San Francisco on a walk of G2,000 miles. They proposed to walk to Sydney, and from there -take steamer to New Zealand and Fiji, and from there home. Mr A. E. Gibbs, secretary in New Zealand for the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd.. who has been appointed manager for the society in England, will be succeeded in this colony by Mr George A. K. Darby shire, at present secretary for Queensland. The Hon. Colonel Pitt met a deputation of the Auckland Law Society this morning, and inspected one or two suitable sites for the proposed new courthouse. He has requested further information in regard to one site which is already partly Government property. Colonel Pitt subsequently received a deputation of the Mount Eden Ratepayers'. Association and inspected the new railway wharf constructed by the Ferroconcrete Company of Australasia. He left for Wellington this afternoon. Bros. John MeLeod and John Clark, directors of the Biennial Movable Committee of the New Zealand Branch of ths Manchester Unity, left by the Rarawa to-day en route to Nelson, where a meeting of directors will be held on Saturday, prior to the Biennial Movable Conunittee meeting, wnich commences on Easter Monday. The business is expected to last the whole week. The other Auckland delegates (Bros. Thomas Aitken (Thames), C. H. Ambridge (Gisborne), E. Leydon, and W. Thomas) leave Auckland by the West Coast steamer on Thursday.