PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11694, 27 September 1902, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Alfred Mistowski will arrive in Dnnedin about Tuesday, November 4, for the musical examinations. Colonel Bell, who for several years represented the United States Consular Department at Sydney, and who is a platform speaker of considerable merit, intends to make a lecturing tour of this colony, beginning at Auckland in the middle of next month.

Writing from Evanstown, Illinois (U.S.), the Hon. S. D. Hastings makes acknowledgment of the receipt of a copy of the 'Evening Star' containing a report of the Jago golden wedding function, and goes on to say: " Among all those whom I met while on my trip to Australasia there ia no one whose friendship I prized more highly than I did that of my loved and honored friend John Wesley Jago. How happy I should have been could I have been present to have greeted him ia person at such a pleasant gathering. More than a quarter of a century has passed since I was in your City. Great changes have taken place since that time. Nowhere in the wide world have greater changes taken place than in your little colony of New Zealand. The eyes of the whole civilised world are fixed upon you. You are furnishing an object-lesson for all the nations of the earth. They are watching with intense interest to see what you will do next. If your experiments in government are successful other nations will rapidly fall in line. If yon would only make an end of the liquor traffic, how much more effectively you could carry forward the great work in which you are engaged !" Mr Hastings, who is in his eighty-seventh year, i 3 still an active mna in his State, and his pen is powerfully employed in the advancement of the temperance cause.

Mr F. J. Walsh was lastj evening presented with a set of sleeve links, suitably inscribed, on the occasion of leaving the Dresden Piano Company's employ to prosecute his musical studies'in Victoria, prior to finishing same in England. The manager (Mr- J. A. X. Riedle), in making the presentation, referred to Mr Walsh's pluck in the task he had set himself, and on behalf of the Dresden staff wished him every success in his new sphere. He carried with' bim the good wishes of all with whom he had come in contact during his stay in Dunedin. Mr Walsh suitably reDlied.