PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. George Kesnt left by the Malwa yesterday on a visit to Austral-.. Mr. Chas. MacMahon, of the New Theatre, Wellington, and the Queen's Theatre, Auckland, is on a (short visit to this euty. Mr. and Mrs. T. Cotter and Mies Cotter, who intend spending about six months in India, were among the Malwa's passengers yesterday. Mr. A. J. Patrick, a weQ-Vnown actor with the firm of J. C. A~_liamson, Ltd., leaves by the Marama few Vancouver to-morrow, en route to New York. Mr. A. Guise, late prr—ete secretary to his Excellency the Governor, and Mrs. Guise will leave Auckland by the Marama to-morrow for Vancouver, en route to England. Among the arrivals by the Malwa yesterday who are staying ai the Grand Hotel were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cole, of JLondon, and Mr. and Mrs. F. \V. Hardy, of Sale,. Cheshire. Mr. Harley MacKenzie, a prominent New South Wales solicitor, was a passenger by the Malwa, en route for Rotorua, on a holiday trip. While in Auckland, he is staying at the Northern Club. Messrs. F. A. Anderson and F. S. Wild-, ing, of Christchureh, were passengers by the Malwa yesterday, en route for India. After doing India, they intend to go across to Egypt, and a cruise up the Persian Gulf id also to be part of the trip. The Hon. W. H. Herries will leave Wellington oh Christmas Eve for Auckland, and after Christmas he will accompany the Minister of Public Works (Hon. W. Fraser) over the route of the East Coast Trunk railway, afterwards attending to some native land business . in the Bay of Plenty. Miss Amy Stevenson, of Devonport, ■ who was some years connected with the Auckland Choral and Orchestral Societies, has just returned from two and a-half years' study of music in Londop at the Royal Academy of Music, where she has made a special study of the 1 Ostrovsky method for the violin . At the premises of A. and T. Burt, Ltd., on Saturday last, Mr. A. Burt, jun., ' on benaii of the firm and employees of ! the Auckland branch, presented to Mr. J. H. Buckland, head of the warehouse department, on the occasion of his apt proaching marriage, a suitably en- - gravea cabinet containing a 91-piece set 1 of cutlery. Dr. W. Stapley, who has occupiesd a position as lecturer in Melbourne University for the past three and a-half years, returned to Auckland by the Malwa yesterday. He is accompanied byMrs. Stapley. Dr. Stapley, who used -, formerly to practise in Hamilton, intends . to join Dr. Roberts (late of Devonport) ; in practice at Cambrieige. Mr. C. H. Frayling, principal of the i Jubilee Institute for the Blind, left - Auckland last night for Christchureh, > accompanied by 26 of his pupils on s their way home to different parts of i the Dominion fo.r their Christmas holii days. Mr. Frayling will return early in - January for the reopening of the trade s departments attached to the institute, i- A warm tribute to the good work done f by Mr. James Grierson, who has rei signed from the position of Inspector to - the Education Board, on account of ill- - health, was paid by Mr. G. J. Garland, t chairman, at the Board's meeting yesterl day. During his long years of service, c Mr Garland remarked, Mr. Grierson had t taken a deep interest not only in the c work of the Board, hut "education in f Auckland generally, and it was with e_- - ceedingly great regret that the Board - parted with him. He sincerely hoped - that Mr. Grierson would be restored to s health, and that he would he spared for - many years to come. f The Rev. Martin Anatey, BD_ MX, '• secretary of the Loudon City Mission, r arrived at Wellington on We_nesday, on t a vis-it to his brother, the Hon. John I Anstey, M.L.C., of Timaru, aocompaniexl S* by his wife and daughters. Mr Anstey • is a well-known Biblical scholar, a mem- ' her of the Standing Canua—tee of Cein--3 vocation in the University of London, * representing the faculty of Divinity. He lectures for Dr. G. Campbell Morgan at Westminster Chapel, and Ls a vice-presi-e dent of the Bible Teachers' Association. He has just completed a standard work on the "Chronology of the Old Testament," which is to be published next aut turnn. Mr Anstey remains.iv New Ze»a----r land for two or three, moot—s, and - will s be glad of oppoFtunitias of preaching f and giving infon maom xe«pect_g the .Lanark ti 4fc« London GQ|£>4-t__«_