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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 123, 25 May 1909, Page 5

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His Excellency Lord.Plunket return! south to-night by the Main Trunk train. The Governor's arrangements respecting; the projected Cook Island tour hava been altered, owing to" the .uncertainty as to the date of the opening of Parliament, and the possible modification ol the Goverriinerit programme owing to, the meeting of the Imperial Defence Conference. Mr. F. E. Baume has been nominated for. re-election to -the University College - Council as graduates* member. Mr. W. H. Martin, well known in athletic circles, left by the Mokoia last evening, on a trip to England and the Continent. The Mayor of Waihi (Mr. Newth) and Councillor Donaldson left this morning to attend the Railway Conference ad Auckland. '•'.-....".* Colonel Roberts, of Tauranga, arrived, In town by the Rotorua express last evening, and is staying for a few days at the Central Hotel. ' j, * The Hon. T. Mackenzie expressed himself delighted with the winter Bhow yesterday, and promised to visit the exhibition again this afternoon. Captain J. B: Raineyi superintendent of the Tyser Company, arrived by the Main Trunk train from Napier thi3 morning, and is stopping at the Grand Hotel. . Dr. Hay, Inspector-General of. Hospitals and Prisons, left by the Rotorua express this morning on a visit of inspection to the prison camps in the thermal districts. —~ ' Mr. Harold Gregson, organist of Napier Cathedral, and Mrs.. Gregson, who haya been staying at the Grand Hotel for a few days, returned to Napieß by ,th« Talune this afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. James Kirk, who. came - to this colony 45 ysars. ago, celebrated their gollen wedding at their residence, Wellesley House, Welleslejr-street West, • on Friday last, 21st M a ly-" - Mr. and Mrs. A.. E, Mills," of Wellington, arrived by the through train this morn- . are putting up.at the Grand '■ Hotel till to-mefew, when they leave, by. ; the Atua for the Islands. Madame Melba and her party left for Sydney by the Mokoia last evening. While in'the New South Wales capital Bhe will be the guest of their Excel- - lehcies the and Counttts Dudley. ■ Mr. J. McPadden, A.0.5.M., recently, appointed director of the Coromandei School of Mines, is at present in Wellington. Mr McPadden intends to visit Waihi and Thames before taking up his duties at Cprbhiahde} on June Ist. Mr. Waldegrave, Under-secretary for,, i Justice, and Mrs. Waldegrave, accompanied by Mesdames Fitzherbert and Atkinson, and Miss Warburton, who have been, guests.at the Grand Hotel during their visit to Auckland, left for Rotorua thia morning •ff*&he express. 1 A statement has been circulated ,$o the effect that Mr. W< Fraser, M.P., intended td retire from politics, ifcr. Frksef, who arrived in Wellington from . the south yesterday, informed a :"Dominiori" representative that'there is"not the slightest -foundation for the rumour. The funeral of the late Mr. J. W. Resell left his late Tesidence, Fairfax-road, this afternoon, for Purewa Cemetery. The Cortege was a very long one, the . deceased, during his life; all of which, was spent in Auckland, haying made him-' self a general favourite in. a big circle of friends and acguamtarices., among whom deep and genuine regret' is expressed at, his death.