PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 66, 17 March 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

» Mr. W. A. Boucher, Government Pomologist, left for the South by the < Rarawa this afternoon. Bishop Julius returned from the Waikato to-day, and holds a confirmation service at the Anglican Cathedral this even- , ing. . The Hon. F. D. Cheshire, General-Con- , sul for the United States in the Eastern Pacific, was a passenger tor Sydney by , the Mokoia last evening. j A meeting of the Auckland Chamber ; of Commerce will be held on Thursday afternoon next to meet Mr. J. S. Larkc, the Canadian Trade Commissioner. The death took place in Auckland yesterday of Captain Nordstrom, who for over 20 years was connected with the West Coast trade, and recently retired from the sea. Commissioner McKie, chief comman- , dant of the Salvation Army in Austra- j lasia, accompanied by Mrs. McKie, left by i the Mokoia last night for Sydney. Mr. Harold Bcauchamp, chairman of < the Bank of New Zealand, and Mr. VV. < Callender, general manager, leave to-mor- ( row afternoon for Wellington. < At yesterday afternoon's meeting of ' the University College Council, Mr. W. ' G. Aldridge wrote resigning his claim ( to the Grey Scholarship, he having won ' a senior national scholarship. s Mr. J. F. Wilson, or the Auckland . Post Office, has been transferred to Wei- ! lington, having received promotion to the secretary's office. The Hon. J. Carroll, Minister for Na- c tive Affairs, arrived by *_he Rarawa at c Onehunga this morning, and accompanied c the Premier to the Ngaruawahia regatta, i Mr. Carroll will also be present at the t Maori meeting at Waharoa to-morrow. 1 The employees of Messrs. Pullan and Aruiitage made a presentation last night to Mr. Charles Jeffries who, after 10 years' service with that firm, has severed his connection in order to return to the 1 Old Country. On behalf of his fellow ' employees. Mr. Mark Berry presented Mr. c Jeffries with a handsome travelling bac I suitably inscribed. The -lev. E. M. Cowie, of Te Aroha, has been offered the vicarship of Ham ilton, which will be vacant in a few months owing to the return to England l of the Rev. N. C. W. Radcliffe. It is c understood that Mr. Cowie will accept T the position. x Mr. Sol. N. Ziman, the 1908 Rhodes t Scholar, has decided to leave Auckland early next month for London, via Wellington and Melbourne. Mr. Ziman en- _ ters on his college course at Oxford in t October next, and while pursuing the t usual BA. course, will devote himself principally to mathematics and science studies.