PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 145, 19 June 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Bishop Lenihan returned last evening from Puhoi. Dr. Ronald leaves for Napier this afternoon by the Victoria. Dr. Low is a passenger for Gisborne by the Victoria this afternoon. The Revs. O'Neill and Bowie were passengers for New Plymouth this afternoon. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) opened the Supreme Court sittings at Nnpier to-day. . Constable Annisou bas been sent to Wuihuka. to relieve Constable Moffatt, who is. on leave.

Captain Niren was among the passenger* who arrived from Sydney by the \ ietoria yesterday. yir J. L. Kirkbride, of Ponsonby, returned by the Victoria yesterday from s visit to Australia. Judge Palmer, of the Native Land Court, was a passenger for Wellington via New Plymouth by the Rarawa on Sunday. Mr and Mrs G. Barton-Ireland arrived yesterday by the Victoria from Sydney, en route from Egypt, on a visit to friends at Auckland and Kotorua. Mr. C. Hall, M.H.R. for Waipawa, who has been spending the past few weeks in visiting friends in the North, left by the .West Coast boat for the South to-day. Miss Maxwell Hibberd, daughter of the Postmaster-General of Natal, is a through passenger for Auckland from London by the Athenic, which arrived at Wellington yesterday. The Vice-Consul for Norway (Mr R. St. Clair) has received a letter from the Consul General at Melbourne, advising the appointment of Mr A. W. Newton as Consul for Norway at Wellington. Mr Newton has visited Norway, and is acquainted with the people. Mr James Lesh, a very old and respected settler of Waiuku, died on Friday last at his farm of View Park, Whiriwhiri. The funeral took place at the Waiuku cemetery on Sunday, and was very largely attended. Mr D. Campbell officiated at the graveside. The Rev. E. G. Gange, F.R.A.S., an eminent Baptist preacher and lecturer, who has been invited to Australia by the Baptist Union of Victoria, for the purpose of preaching and lecturing through the Australian States and New Zealand, left London by the steamer Afric on the 7th inst. He is accompanied by Mrs. Gange, and expects to arrive in Melbourne on 20th July. Mrs Sarah Barnard, widow of the late Mr William Hooper Barnard, formerly of H.M. Customs, passed away at Wellington yesterday. The deceased lady arrived in the ship Indian Queen on February Ist, 1857, and has resided almost continuously in Wellington. She leaves a family of four sons and three daughters, while among her descendants are eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. j tftr Another old identity in the person Tof' Mr. Henry French (of Messrs. H. French and Son, Coromandel) died yesterday after a short illness at his residence. Driving Creek. Deceased was born at Bangalore, India, in 1824, and was a son of the late Major John French, who' was in the East India Company's service. He arrived in Auckland by the ship Joseph Fletcher in 1859. He was very interested in music, and taught the tonic-soWa system for many years. He was many years choir master at the Wellesley-street Baptist Chapel.-Even-tually he took up his residence in Coromandel 31 years ago, and he was connected with a general storekeeping business up to the time of his death. Deceased was 82 years of age. He leaves a grown-up family of two sons and two daughters. On his recent trip to the Continent Mr. George Fowlds, M.H.R., visited Paris, Geneva, Genoa, Nice and Monte Carlo', and then went on to Italy, where bis programme included visits to Rome, Naples, Florence, and Venice. He was at the top of Mount Vesuvius a few days before the great eruption. Everywhere he came across New Zealanders or .people with relatives and friends in the colony. Since his Teturn Mr. Fowlds has been staying with friends in Lincolnshire, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. He came up to London for the annual session of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and he and Mr. Meadowcroft, of Wellington, were officially received as delegates from tho New Zealand Union. —(London correspondent.)