PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 38, 14 February 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. McKinnon has definitely announced that' he will have to decline nomination as mayor of Whangarei. Captain D. McLean, of the Waihoia. is relieving Capt. R. E. Smith, of th* Mokoia, the latter officer going on holiday leave. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hall, of Christ_-Ui___ are passengers from Tndi- by the Malwa. whioh arrives on Wednesday. MJrs. Hall was a Miss Sellers, of Auckl-tid. Messrs. H. Hargreaves and T. „_L Baker, Christchurch wool-buyers, arriVed by the Main Trunk train yesterday, and are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. H. Brett, who attended the Imperial Press Conference in is a passenger by the P. and 0. liner Malwa, which left Sydney on Saturday for Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Barker, of Gisborne, and Mr. A. R. Grant, of Wellington, arrived by the Mokoia from the South yesterday, and are staving at the Grand Hotel. Mr. F. H. Hauham, of C-_r_stch-_rc]-, arrived by the Main Trunk train yesterday, and is putting up at the Grand Hotel till Wednesday, when, ha leaves for London by the Malwa. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Jackson, of Nelson, arrived by the Mokoia from the South yesterday, and are staying at tht Grand Hotel. They leave .on Wednesday by the P. and O. steamer Malwa. Mrs. Button (wife of ex-Judge G. E ' Button) died at her residence, Mt. Eden, on Saturday, at the age of 68 year.-. The place yesterday at' Waikaraka Cemetery, C_ehunga. Mr. Willi-urn McCullough, proprietor _f the Thames ''Star and Advertiser," and formerly a member of the Legislative Council, is leaving shortly on a. to__. round the world for the benefit of hit health. The Rev. Mr. Finn, of Gisborne, who it studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood, will return to Sydney by the Maheno this evening to compute Ms course. The Rev. Finn wUI be ordained at Manly in June next for the Auckland diocese. Mr. W. F. Crawford, the first Mayo* of Gisborne, was presented with a purse of sovereigns on Saturday as a token ~oi esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens. The Hon. J. Carroll made the presentation, and speeches wers made by the present Slayor and othei citizens. "Visitors to the Dominion who arrived by the Maheno yesterday and are staying at the Grand Hotel include Messrs. J. McKendrick (of" Melbourne), P. A. Ross, and S. L. Berk (of Sydney), __ T. Simmermann. (of New York), a_4 James Walker and Miss Walker (of Glasgow). Mrs. Hugh Stewart, widow of the I&t* Capt. Stewart, R.N., late of "Athenree* Katikati, died suddenly at ____.ti_--i._i oa Saturday night. The deceased lady and her son, Mr. Meryyn J. Stewart, recently arrived from a visit to a relative of the late Capt._ Stewart at Home. An inquest was held to-day, at which a verdict ot heart failure was returntd (wires our Waihi correspondent.) The Rev. Fr. Keogh met with a trap accident yesterday. He was proceeding from the Mater Misericordia Hospital to Newmarket to celebrate mass, but had not proceeded.further than the hospital gates when the vehicle overturned and the reverend gentleman was thrown out on his head, the vehicle pinning him. to the ground. He was not ibadly injured, but was apparently suffering very much from shook; he was conveyed back to the hospital for treatment. A very pleasant function took place on Saturday afternoon at "Avona,"-Khyber Pass, when Mrs. Garlick entertained the ladies of the Auckland Orchestral Soc- " iety to bid farewell to Miss Amy Stevenson, the well-known violinist, who sails for London on Wednesday by the Malwa. During the afternoon Mass Stevenson was made the recipient of a handsome Kaiapoi travelling rug, presented by Miss \V_itelaw on behalf of -the lady member., wishing her a pleasant voyage, a safe return, and happy days in England. On the occasion of Lord Plunkefs visit to Nelson on the 21st inst., his Excellency will be entertained at luncheon, and then driven to see the College, Alexandra Home and Hospital. Subsequently he will unevil at the Art Gallery the memorial picture of the late Mrs. Martin (Huria Matenga), the Grace Darling of New Zealand. La the evening Lord Plunket will be. entertained by the Masonic Order. On Tuesday forenoon, 22nd, the Masons will take his Excellency for a drive, and in the afternoon he will be present at a garden party given by the Bishop of Nelson at Bishopdale. In the evening a conversazione is to be held in the Provincial Hall.