PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 174, 23 July 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. J. JTapier was a passenger for the South by the Takapuna yesterday. Mr. H. J. H. Blow Was a passenger for the South by the Takapuna, yesterday- :-. :

Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Thorne George* were passengers by the Takapujia, fop the South yesterday. - : 4

Sir Robert and Lady Loekhart left for a trip to the Islands hy the Atna this afternoon. - - ■>•■» ■

The Rev. Fathers Bowden and Hyland are passengers by th e Atua this afternoon for Fiji. .

Mr. James W. Lee, who has been spending a holiday in this district, left for the South by the Takapuna, en route for Wellington, where he wj]] join the Tongariro for Monte Video.

Mr. T- Griffith Taylor, of Sydney, -wfc.o has been spending a week in Auckland, leaves by tiie Atua for ilji this afternoon.

Mr. Burnett J. Hay, of Cape Town, leaves by the Atua this afternoon, for Sydney, via the Islands, after having toured New Zealand.

Amongst more recent guests at the Star Hotel are: Mr. Hans Mohwenkel, Miss Mohwenkel, Mrs. and Miss R. Kuruke, Miss Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips (Karangahake), Mr.. 0. Sheik, Miss Shaik (Montreal).

Mr. C. Holton, of Opotiki,.left by the Miowera last night for Sydney, whence he intends visiting the principal islands of the South Pacific.

Mr Philip Pickering, for many years teller in the Bank of New South Wales here, and about two years ago transferred to the head office in Sydney, has been appointed accountant at the Townsville branch, Queensland, and left Sydney last week to enter on his new duties.

Amongst a good many more than would be generally suspected, a pang of regret and sorrow will be felt at the announcement that Mr. E. Anson, for 27 years billiard-marker at the Auckland Club, has passed over to- the great majority. Fcir some years past Mr. Anson has been more or les3 invalided, but retained almost to the last his position in the Auckland Club, where his conscientiousness and civility and knowledge of the game had made him a valued and respected, and, with the case of the older members, a beloved, servant. .A man of very obvious high education and culture, Mr. Anson was reputed to be of distinguished family in the Old Country, and his extreme reticence and pride in personal affairs give the colour of every probability to this assumption. Be this as it may, he was a. fine fellow, and a large circle will mourn his loss, not alone amongst billiard players in the Clu,b who engaged bis services, but amongst billiard players generally, for he was regarded as the leading authority on the game.