PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr. 11. S. C0w1..-,g. of U.S.A.. is staying at Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. Laidley, of Scot-land, have taken rooms ait Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Holmes, of New York, arc staying at Cargen. Mr. K. W. McLean, of Wellington, is staying at Cargen. The Rev. 0. .). Kimberley. secretary of the N.Z. Church Missionary Society, arrived by the express last evening. Mr. Broome Smith. F.R.G.S., arrived from Wellington by the express in order to attend tihe annual meeting of the X.Z. Ohuroli Missionary Society to-day. Major-General Sir Alfred Robin, wiho suffered a collapse las* week, will probably be confine-, to his bed for some Kittle time to come. Rev. R. Winchester .Jackson, late of Southbridge I Canterbury), was inducted into the Presbyterian charge of Matamata and district on Tuesday. The promotion of Colonel H. Hart. D. •*.(>., of the Wellington Infantry, to be brigadier-general in command of a brigade, ie announced. Brigadier-General Hart left New Zealand with the Main Body. Feeling reference to the death of Mr. A. Rowley, who was the first treasurer of the Auckland Rugby League. Northern I nion. was made by the chairman. Mr. .I. Ca-rlaw. vice-president, at the annual meeting of that authority last evening. Mr/Rowley was killed at fcue front.

At a special meeting o. the Waikato Presbytery, held at Matamata on Tuesday, a rail from St. Andrews Church. Hamilton, to Rev. R. Mackie, of Winton, was sustained. The call had previously been referred back to the congregation for additional signatures, as the roll not having been purged the necessary quota of names was not attached-. The Presbytery provisionally fixed the induction for June 6th.

The death is announced by our Dunedin correspondent of Mr. "Alfred Lee Smith in his eightieth year. He unsuccessfully contested Dunedin City and Bruce seats, and was called to the Legislative Council by the Seddon Government. He represented New Zealand at the Imperial Conference held at Ottawa in IS9O. Mr. Lee Smith was a Nationalist, and when the first Irish delegation in the persons of Mr. John Dillon and Sir Thomas Esmonde visited New Zealand they were his guests at Green Island during their stay in Dunedin.