PERSONAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 17, 21 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs H. E. Grainger, who have been spending a holiday in the Auckland district, have returned. Dr Hocken, who has been in illhealth for a considerable time, left Dunedin for Melbourne by the Marama on Sunday accompanied by Mrs Hocken. The visit, which, will be only a short one, is taken in the hope that the sea voyage to Melbourne and back will have a beneficial effect. Notwithstanding his illness (says the Otago Daily Times) Dr Hocken has, under great difficulties, devoted every spare moment to work in connection with the preparation of the books and pictures which will form the library that is to bear his name. Captain Aldwell has been appointed to the command, of the ferry steamer Maori, in succession to Captain Hunter.

Mr and Mrs Booth and Miss Pettit returned to Dannevirke from their trip to Lake Taupo last evening. Lieut. Neilsen, Sergt. Law, and Priva/tes Eyles and Deihl left for Palmerston last evening tp attend the Manawatu Rifle Association meeting. It is hoped that Sergt. Gebbie will go through to-morrow and join them in the teams match.

The Rev. Alex and Mrs Whyte and family took their departure by steamer yesterday for Port Chalmers. A Foilding wire states that Mrs Goodbehere, relict of Samuel Gioodbehere, ex-Mayor of Feilding at the age of years. Deceased was the mother of Edmund Goodbehere, present councillor, chairman of the fire board, etc., also an ex-Mayor. The family were one of the first settlers of the district.

The Rev. Mr Griffin, who has been visiting: Whangai-ei, where he has been spending his annual leave, was a passenger to Dannevirke by the express train last evening. A Press Association telegram from Timaru states that Mr Peter Keddie, well-known in commercial circles in Otago and Canterbury,' died suddenly yesterday evening. He had until lately been inspector of factories, but retired on account of failing health. Cr Carson has been appointed by the Borough Council to act as Mayor of "Wangamii during the abseuce" of Mr C. E. Mackay. During; his stay in Hastings, Sir Joseph Ward will be the guest of Mr G. P. Donnelly. Miss Parker, a New Zealander, addressed a woman's suffrage meeting at Hamilton, Scotland, a few nights back, under the auspices of the Scottish University Women's Suffrage Union. Miss Parker, who bad to put up with some good-humored heckling, argued that women's suffrage liad been of benefit to New Zealand. The meeting voted in favor of the reform being adopted in the United Kingdom. Peara None, a direct descendant of the famous Ngawaka warrior, Tamati Waka Nene, and J. Ngawaka, also a Ngapubi, who were born in the Bay of Islands, and who are members of the strongest, most influential, and aristocratic tribes in the country, gave a very successful recital at Queen's Gate Hall recently. There was a packed house, and the audience was a most enthusiastic one. Peara Nene has a robust tenor voice, and is highly spoken of by critics. Mr Naawaka was encored eight times after his haka and Maori song. These young Maoris cannot fail to be a great attraction at any concert.