PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 69, 22 March 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL.

From Rome comes news of the death of Cardinal Agliardi. Mr. J. Okerbloom, of Sydney, was a passenger by the Niagara on a visit to New Zealand. ■Mr. J. A. Pickett, of Melbourne, is spending a few days in Auckland, having arrived by the Niagara. Bishop Averill held a confirmation service at the Thames yesterday, and is returning to Auckland to-day. Mr. W. B. Scott, of Opotiki, proprietor of the Bast Goat* "Timw," arrived in Auckland yesterday, and is staying at Oargen. The Rev. W. A. Butler, of Stratford, was a passenger by the Maheno yesterday on his return from a visit to England. Mr. E. H. Hiley, General Manager of the New Zealand Railways, left on his return to WeUington by the express on Saturday. The death has occurred of Mr. Robert Charles de Grey Vyner, the well IFnown sportsman, and owner of the Fairfield Stud Farm, York. Arrivals at Cargen by the Niagara today incJude Mr. C. R. Adameon. Sydney; Mr. J. J. Hoyle, Bathuret, N.S.W.; Mr. H. C. Hughes, Sydney. Major Evan3, Captain and Mrs. Chariton, and Captain Craig, arrival** from Sydney by the Niagara, this morning, are staying at the Grand Hotel. ■Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of directors of- the Bank of New Zealand, who is staying at the Grand Hotel, will rerurn to Wellington to-morrow. Mr. H. Chalmers, managing director of Farmers', Ltd., one of the largest I retail establishments in Sydney, arrived by the Niagara from Sydney "to-day. Nurse Wright, who has been working! among the Maoris in the Rotorua district, has been accepted for service at I the front, and will leave for England ,by the Rotorua. Dr. Lionel J. Hood, a well knowq Melbourne practitioner, has come to Auckland by the Niagara. He is taking a holiday with Mrs. Hood, and is now staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. George H.Turton, general manager for Australia of the Royal Insurance Company, Ltd., i* a passenger by the Niagara. He is making a trip to England, travelling via Vancouver. Mr. OharlvH Holdsworth, general manager of the U.nkm Steamship Company, arrived with Mrs. Holdsworth and Mia Holdswortih by the Niagara from Sydney to-day. They are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Milsom, accompanied by their son, Mr. J. L. Milsom, arrived by the Niagara from Sydney on a holiday visit. They intend doing some fishing at Taupo. They arc at present stopping at the Grand Hotel. Mr. George Hoskins, of the firm of Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins, proprietors of the Lithgow ironworks, i s spending a holiday in Auckland, having arrived' |by the Niagara in company ""with his I wife and two daughters. Mr. .T. Stewart, vice-president and ex-1 | president of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, was entertained by his I t fellow-members on Friday evening, and' ! presented with an inscribed gold sovereign case Mr. Stewart is a captain in the Motor Reserve, and has decided to provide a car and offer his services at the front. Dr. Frazer-Hurst (Medical Superintendent of Whangarei Hospital) left Whangarei on Saturday for Trentham, en route for the front." Prior to his departure the doctor was the recipient of a travelling rug from the matron and nursing staff of the hospital. At the railway station a large number of representative business men assembled, and, headed by the Mayor (Mr D. W. Jack) accorded Dr. Frazer-Hurst an ei.thusij astic send off. ' A private cablegram received from Sydney announces the death of Mr. John Jackson Calvert, 1.5.0., in his eighty-fifth year. The deceased was Clerk of the New South Wales Parliament for many years, having been appointed to that position in 1871. He was also president of the New South Wales Rugby Union for thirty-two years, and was for some time on the council of the first Royal Agricultural Society of the State.