PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 30 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr. D. Neils on, of Onehunga, leaves on a trip to Sydney by the Manuka to-day. Captain W. H. Hazard, of the No. 3 Garrison Artillery, returned to Auckland from Sydney last evening. Mr. E. G. Meers, who has been visiting Auckland, leaves by s.s. Manuka this evening for S}'dney, en route for Singapore and London. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williamson, of Lake Takapuna, arrived from America, via Sydney, by the s.s. Mokoia last evening.. . The death is announced of an old and respected resident. of Onehunga in the person of Mrs. §. J. Browne, wife of Mr. G. J. Browne, for many years postmaster at Onehunga. Sirs. Browne, who was 59 years of age, leaves-a large family. The many friends of Mr. 3ST. P. Edson, elder surviving son of Mr. John Edson, chemist, will regret to hear of his death, which took place at his residence, Crum-mer-road, to-day. The interment takes place at the Waikaraka Cemetery, Onehunga, to-morrow. • Dr. Bell, Director of the Geological Survey, has left Wellington for the Gisborne district to continue his inspection of petroleum deposits. He will remain there till the end of April, when he will come on to the Thames. The Hon. George Fowlds (Minister of Education and Public Health) is due in Christchurch on April. 2nd. He -will leave for Dunedin on the following day. One of his engagements at Dunedin is to be the opening of the new dental college.

Mr. J. Strauclipn, Commissioner of Crown Lands, who has been transferred to Auckland, was to have taken up his duties here on. April Ist, hut it has now been decided to retain his services in Wellington for another month. Mr. V. A. Sproul, representative of Howard Smith and Co., managing agents in Australasia for the Australian mail line, returned from "Samoa in the Navua yesterday after haying established an agency for the line at Apia. Mr. Sproul leaves for the South, en route for Sydney, this week. Mr. John M. Griffiths, ex-president of the Melbourne Young Men's Christian Association, and Sir. William Gillanders, national secretary for Australasia and New Zealand, were entertained by the executive of the V.M.C.A. at Sydney on March 24. Mr. Griffiths congratulated the Sydney association' on the. splendid forward movement now characterising the organistion. Mr.. Gillanders. who is on his way to New Zealand, referred to the tremendous strides that have been made recently, and gave a short outline of his itinerary for S»e ensuing months. Mr. George Allen, of the Great Northroad, ' Auckland, leaves for Sydney by the Manuka to-day, in order to visit his son, who was severely injured last Wednesday on the s.s. Atua, whilst voyaging from Fiji to Sydney, en route for Auckland. -•'.'■ Lord Dudley, who will succeed Lord Northcote as Governor-General of Australia, >has always been an enthusiastic yachtsman. In 1885, when 18 years old, he purchased the steam yacht Marchese, in which, -with a party of friends and relatives, he made a voyage of the world, calling, at South. America, and visiting Melbourne (where he stayed for a month), Adelaide, Albany, Colombo, and Suez. Though he was then only 20 years of age, when in Melbourne, Lord Dudley made a great many firm friends in Australia, who will be pleased to welcome him back as Governor-General of the Commonwealth. Mr. Leslie B.- Neale, who for many years has been identified with St.JohVs Sunday-school, J?onsonby, both as scholar and teacher, and who iy leaving for Timaru to take up work, as an accepted candidate for the Ministry, was yesterday the recipient of a number of standard works, the gift of the teachers and members of Mr. Neale's class. The presentation was made by the Rev. G. Bond, who voiced the feelings of the donors in expressing . appreciation of Mr. Neale's qualities and work' in connection with the school and church. Mr. J. Foster and Mr. T. E. Price, on behalf of teachers and local preachers, wished Mr. Neale God-speed. At the meeting of the Crown Lands Board this morning a memo, from the Under-Secretary for Lands, was read notifying the re-appointinmt of Mr M W. Armstrong as a member of the Board. Mr. Renshaw (senior member of the Board) congratulated Mr. Armstrong upon his re-appointment, and stated that the appointment as a Government representative was justified by the confidence the settlers had in Mr. Armstrong, who was well .known throughout the district as the friend of the backblocks' pioneer Mr. Trounson alsb expressed his pleasure at seeing Mr. Armstrong re-appointed, and Messrs. Harris and Mackenzie addV their testimony to the ability and : ~t. I • est always evinced by Mr. Armstrong the work of the Board and the wants v ' the settlers. Mr. Armstrong, in reply thanked his fellow members, and expressed the regret of the Board at the ' approaching departure of the Commis- ■> sioner (Mr. Mackenzie). a