Personal.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 2, 3 January 1901, Page 2

Personal.

Sergeant-Major Cbrispiu loft for Napiar by tho Mararoa last evening. Mr A. E. Gascoigne, of Wellington, loft Gisborne last night per s.s. Mararoa for the capital city, after a short sojourn in our town.

Mr H. Bull, headmaster of tlio Gisborno District High School, and Mr E. Farain, master of Murewai School, aro among thoso who have gone to tho Commonwealth celebrations.’

Messrs Smith and Williams, who succeed Messrs Cox and Holford in tho local post office, have arrived to take up their now duties.

Mr T. Brown, tho well-known Ponsonby bowling skip, arrived by tho Mararoa yesterday afternoon and will remain in Gisborno until after the tournament.

Mr F. O’Meara, an erstwhile very popular resident o£ Gisborne, and now on the U.S.S. Auckland staff, lias been placed temporarily in charge of the Gisborne oiliee, pending tho arrival of Mr Cargill’s successor. Included in the list of returning Now Zealanders by the steamer Orient, which arrived at Albany on Monday, are Privates G. Johnstone and J. Williams, of tho third contingent, and Trooper F. J. H. Gaudiu of the first contingent. Mr J. It. Perry, engineer of tho Cold Storage Department of De Bear’s Company at Kimberley and Ladysmith, South Africa, is likely to pay Gisborne a visit shortly. He will probably visit the Gisborne Freezing Company’s and Nelson Bros.’ Works at Gisborne before proceeding South. Among the visitors at the Commonwealth celebrations is Mr Jackson Palmer, M.11.R. Tho invitation from Sydney was extended to Mrs Jaclmon Palmer, but as up to the time of leaving the popular Aucklander had net abandoned the miseries of bachelorhood only half the invitation wan aeeepted.

Among the Australians who have recently come over to enjoy a few weeks of New Zealand’s bracing climate are Mr Justice Simpson and Mrs Simpson. His Honor presided at the hearing of tho sensational ease in which cricketer Conyngham sought a divorce from his wife. Mr and Mrs Simpson in pro- * vious years went to Tasmania. They were expected to go to tho north via Gisborne. The many Gisborne friends of Mr Charles Wilson, ex-M.H.R., are very pleased to learn that he has been appointed Parliamentary librarian, for a better could not have been chosen. Mr Wilson, in other days, engrossed the attention of Gisborne people by his chatty articles on books. He has acquired fame as a collector of rare books.

Mr Pearse, of the Australian Pastoralists Review, describes a recent visit to a country where they have a Government paper currencyln tho Argentine Republic you get lldol. 50 cents for a sovereign. Across the river you get sdol. for a sovereign, and one dollar goes as far as tho other. That is one reason why the Argentine is going ahead so. They aro selling everything for gold, while they pay everything in paper. The result is that the people are so wealthy that they don’t know what to do with their money. The : r opera-house, jockey-club, and so on arc dreams to us in lavish expenditure. It has always seemed to me that people who sell for gold and pay in paper have a big pull over us. Mr J. Callan, of the well-known firm of Callan and Galloway, solicitors, of Dunedin, proceeded South by the Mararoa, leaving Gisborne last night. He speaks highly of the attractions of Gisborne, and to a Times reporter expressed the opinion that this town should in time become an important faotor in the colonial commercial world. “It is one of the prettiest spots in New Zealand,” said Mr Callan before tho departure of the Mararoa, “ and there is not the slightest doubt that in a very short time Gisborne must forge ahead.”