PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 210, 4 September 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. Ford, of Eeling, Victoria, arrived from Sydney yesterday, and is staying at Cargen. Mr. Ben Myers returned by the Victoria yesterday from a holiday trip to the Islands and Sydney. Judge R. N. Jones, of Gisborne, passed through Auckland yesterday, on his way to New Plymouth, where he will attend sittings of the Native Land Court. Mr. H. C. Rogers, an inspector in the S: o Fire Insurance Department, is at present in Auckland, and is staying at I'aTgen. Messrs. J. Pricker (Ceylon) and RGorham (Philadelphia) were among the passengers by the Victoria from Sydney yesterday. Both intend touring the Dominion. Mr. William F. Burley, 8.A., at present on the stall of the Lyttelton District High School, has 'been appointed science master at the Auckland Technical College. Mr. W. D. S. Macdonald, M.P., who has been attacked with appendicitis, is making satisfactory progress, and expects to be back again in the Housi this week. Messrs. W. Wallace Bruce and A. B. Robertson, of Auckland, have been reelected president and vice-president, respectively, of the New Zealand Society of Accouutants. Mr. George Fletcher, mining engineer, did not attend the sitting of the Mines Commission this morning, having gone on to Huntly to arrange for an inspection of the coal mines to-morrow. Mr. Hubert Burnett, who has been vicar's churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church, Woodville, continuously for twenty-five years, was presented by the parishioners at the annual meeting on Thursday night with a gold and silver service and tray, suitably engraved. Mr. G. L. Cook, district engineer, was farewelled at Tauranga by the Public Works staff on Sat in day night on the occasion of his retirement from the service. He was the recipient of two presentations. Mr. J. Hannah becomes resident engineer.— (Press Association.) The Rev. F. W. Young, 8.A., late vicar of Northern Wairoa, has been nominated to the charge of Northcote and Birkenhead in succession to the Rev. A. F. Smith, who has left for England. He will be formally instituted on Wednesday evening by the Bishop. Mr. J. A. Grimwood. late chief clerk in the local office of the Union Company, who has been appointed to the Vancouver and Islands department of the Company's head office, left for Dunedin bv the farawera on Saturday. Previous to his departure he was presented with a handsome rose-bowl by the office staff. Mr. John Brodie. Mayor of Miramar, has consented to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the Wellington East seat at the coming general elections. Mr. Brodie will stand a.3 an Independent Liberal, reserving to himself independence on a no-confldence motion. Mr. Brodie makes the fifth candidate announced for the Wellington East seat. Sir Joshua Williams, responding to congratulations on his knighthood offered him by the lnvercargill Bar, said: "It will be, gentlemen, thirty-six years next December since 1 first came to preside in the court here. I see before me a new generation of the profession, but during all those thirty-six years I have received from members of the profession nothing but kindness in the performance of my duties. 1 may truly say 1 have received from members of the profession throughout all that long period the most valuable assistance. 1 think I may also say that during the whole of that time there has not been any friction whatever between the members of the profession or, indeed, any member of the profession and myself." Canon Long, who has been elected Bishop of Bathurst (N.S.W.), will be one of the very few colonial Bishops who are colonial by birth. He is the youngest son of the late William Long, W Carisbrooke, and is 30 years of age. He was educated at Trinity College, Melbourne, where he took his degTee in 1900 with first-class honours in logic and philosophy. After taking orders, he was successively senior curate of Holy Trinity Church, Kew, near Melbourne, head-master of Trinity Grammar School, which he helped to found, and Canon of St- Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. Miss Rene Queree, 'the brilliant young New Zealand pianist, is at present in Christchurch, in connection with her benefit concert, which takes place in thart. city on September 20th. Miss Queree recently made a great impression in Christchurch with her playing. Dr. Harriss. of the Sheffield Choir, being specially flattering in his praise of her ability, and it is owing to his efforts that? a strong committee was formed to give benefit concerts in Christchurch. Wellington, and Auckland, to raise sufficient funds to send Miss Queree to Europe to study. The Christchurch Orchestral Society, Mrs. Gower Burns, and Mr. Farquar Young are assisting. The Wellington concert, which is under Vice-regal patronage, takes place at the Opera House on Monday, October 2nd. It does not often occur that lost property is returned to the owner after the lapse of some years, but the almost remarkable recovery of a heavy gold chain, and locket attached, lost at Russell some thirty years ago by Constable McGilp, now stationed at Birkenhead, has just come as a pleasant surprise to the police officer. Thirty years ago the then infant son of the constable lost the chain while pla3'ing in a paddocK adjoin ing the police station, and at the time a diligent but fruitless search was made for the missing property. The loss was almost forgotten in the intervening years, but a week ago Constable McGilp received a note from Constable Parsons, at present in charge of the Bay of Is- ! lands district, stating that he had been handed a gold chain by a Maori, who found it while cutting down furze in the I paddock near the police-station, and that some of the " oldest inhabitants " recolI lected thai. Constable McC|ilp lost a ! chain in the dim and distant past. Constable McGilp immediately sent along a ; full and exact description of the missing | property, and this morning received i through the post the long-lost chain in an excellent state of preservation, better even than if it had been worn constantly in the interval, and the only damage was the obliteration of a photograph in the. locket, and the breaking off of the catch bar. The constable has sent along a little token as tangible appreciation of the Maori's honesty in handing over the chain.