PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 138, 12 June 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL.

-Ir. and Mts. G. H. Parkinson, of Wellington, are at present in Auckland on a visit, and are staying at " Cargen." Captain J. 13. Rainey, superintendent for the Tvser Company, arrived from Napier yesterday, and is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Mr. D. A. Aicken assistant general manager of the Union S-team Ship Company arrived in Auckland by the Main Trunk train yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. Casey, of Auckland, leave by the Wimmera this evening for Sydney, their intention being to make a motoring tour of Australia. _>r. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, was a passenger for New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday afternoon,, on his way to Wellington. Mr. C. R Benjamin, of Wellington, arrived by the Main Trunk express yesterday morning on a visit North, and is staying at the Centra] Hotel. Mr. H. P. Lyons, advance representative for Messrs. J. and N. Tait, has arrived to make arrangements for the Auckland Beason of the Nicola tour. Mr. Geo. Stephenson, the well-known theatrical manager, arrived in Auckland from the South on Saturday afternoon, and is stopping at the Central -Hotel. The following Australian visitors staying at "Cargen" leave by the Wimmera to-day: Mr. and Mts. Milliard, Morriset. N.S.W., and Mr. J. B. Shaw, Brisbane. Sir Kenneth Douglas and Mr. Hammond, the well-known airmen, left Sydney for New Zealand by the Moeraki on Saturday, reports a Press Association cable. At Messrs. Soagar Bros." works to-day, the employees presented Mr. Geo. Seagar, jun., with a handsome shaving set and cigar-holder, on the occasion of his departure to tour Australia with the New Zealand Northern Union football team. Mr. H. Isaacs, of Dunedin, who has been spending a couple of months on a holiday visit to Australia, returned by the Victoria yesterday, and is staying at the Grand Hotel while in Auckland. Auckla.nders who are leaving to catch the White .Star steamer .Medic at Sydney on .luly 5 for London include Mr. aud Mrs. H. J. Granger, of Ponsonby; Miss D. Boscawen, of Mount Eden; and Mrs. and Miss Carter, of Ponsonby. Messrs. W. L. Jamioson, of Christchurch; A. Johnston Broun, P. §arr, G. M. Mac Lean, of Dunedin; aud F. U. Russell, of Hastings, were arrivals by the Main Trunk train from the South yesterday who are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. J. Harrington, of the big Ausfcralian -photographic firm of that name, arrived in Auckland by the Victoria from Sydney yesterday, accompanied by his wife and daughter, and is stopping at the Central Hotel during his stay in Auckland. Sir Henry and Lady Ripley, visitors from Shropshire, are at present in Bussell, the chief object of their visit North being deep sea felling. They will leave Auckland on Monday the 19th inst., to «atch the North German Lloyd steamer Prince Sigismund, en route for London ivia Japan and America. The Bey. W. Ready and Mrs. Ready will go South next week to Dunedin on ' a recuperative trip for the benefit of Mrs. Ready's health, after the trying period she has gone through as the result of her accident during the lire at the parsonage last April, by which she broke both her ankles. Mr. Ready will return the following week, but Mrs. Beady will 'remain South for some little time. The Home mail this morning brought to Archdeacon Calder the welcome news thai Bishop Neligan has entirely satis- , tied his London doctor as to his fitness j for pastoral work, provided it be not too hard. The day the mail left he was offered and accepted the rectory of Ford, Northumberland, a quiet village with lovely surroundings and a "beautiful rectory, the stipend accompanying the bene- ; fice being sufficient to place the new rec--1 tor's family beyond financial anxieties. Dr. Neligan was locum tenons at Ford | during the summer of 1901, and has I never been forgotten, the people being delighted when Lord J.icey, the patron j of the living, decided to offer it to him.