PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 194, 16 August 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Messrs. L. and E. Trelloch, of Gisborne, are staying at the Central Hotel. Captain A. L. Hammond, of Helensville, is in Auckland, staying at the Royal Hotel. Colonel Allen Bell, of Waikato, Is at present in Auckland, staying at the Central Hotel. Mr. London contests the Dunedin North seat in the Liberal interest.— (Press Association, )■ ■ Dr. J. P. Wilson, of Melbourne, who has been staying'at "Cargen" for the past week, left for Eotorua this morning. Mr. Thos. L. Thompson has decided to contest the Grey Lynn Beat as a straightout Independent. Mr. A. J. Rothschild, of Messrs Rothschild and Co., Wellington, who has been in Auckland for a few days, returns to Wellington by the Main Trunk this evening. Mr. R. Chanvelot, a Parisian journalist, who is visiting Australia, will shortly tour New Zealand. He has already travelled in China, Japan, India, and the Philippines. His Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) contracted a cold while visiting Christchurch last week, and on his return to Wellington on Saturday had to remain indoors. A requisition is being signed in Huntly requesting Mr. John Powell Bailey (chairman of the Waikato County Council and Huntly Town Board) to stand in ithe Government's interests in the new Kir.lan electorate. ■Visitors to Auckland staying at the Royal Hotel are: Messrs. T. F. Crawford, Gisborne; Robt. Dixon, Wellington; H. Hi Ditcher, Wellington; F. C. Mason, Christchurch; W. W. Anderson, Sydney; J. E. Petrie, Wellington. Mr. Reginald G. H. Blow, second son of Mr. H. J. H. Blow, 1.5.0. (UnderSecretary for Public Works), will leave Wellington on the 25th inst for Sydney, len route for England, where he goes [to .study at the. Royal Academy of i Music.

Mr: John Jackson, secretary of the Greymouth. Wharf Labourers' Union, and president of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, etc., has been appointed Government labour agent at Greymouth vice Mr. H. E. Moston, transferred to Wanganui. He resigns his various positions to-day.—(Press Association.)

The death took place on Monday at Dunedin of Mr. Henry Edward Muir, who has been associated extensively with journalism in the South Island, and was at the time of his death on £he literary staff of the "Otago Daily Times." During the dredging boom the deceased entered into business as a shnrebroker, and was chairman of the Equitable Stock Exchange. In 1900 he was elected a councillor in Dunedin, and a year previous to that he was appointed a Justice of the Peace.