PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3564, 2 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mi- F. H. W- Traill left by the s.s. Navua yesterday on a trip to Christchurch. i Advice lias been received by Mr i Geo. Lysnar that Mr F. J. Lysnar has | arrived at Home. j Captain Gumming, Harbor Master. !is suffering from a badly-strained I ankle, which he sustained while aboard ! tlie tug Terawhiti on Saturday last. Mr Frank Evans, sen of Mr Charles Evans, and a one-time highly popular G ishorno hoy. is at present spending a few days with liis friends in Gis- | borne. Mr Evans, who is auctioneer ! for Messrs Jas. Macintosh and Co., of Masterton, is combining business with pleasure during bis stay in Gisborne. Mr. Muir, seur., and Mr. Bruce Muir, of Gisborne, arrived in London last month. They will be touring all over tlie United Kingdom, and will pay visits to Ireland and to tlie Continent ere returning to New Zealand by w ay of America, and Canada at the < -id of the year.—London correspondent. " At a public meeting to-n'ght atNelson, at which representatives of practically every denomination were present, it was decided (says a P.A. message) to present a piece of plate to -tlie Right Rev. Dr. Mules on the occasion of his retirement from the Bishopric of Nelson. Mr. F. IV. Marchant. M.1.C.5., of Timarii, who is well-known in Gisborne, and bis daughter. Miss Ruth Marchant, arrived in London last month, the former having been out of health for some years past, and hoping now that the rest and change will do him much good- Mr. Marchant has also certain professional engagements to attend to, and when lie is quite well probably returns to tlie Dominion. . Many of the German papers to hand contain eulogies of Sir George Reid. The Germans have discovered a remarkable likeness between Sir George and the late Prince Bismarck. “He has,” we read in the Tagleblatt, "tlie same eyes and same busby moustache, hut he has not yet been reduced to the celebrated three hairs .of the ‘Man of Blood, and Iron.’ ” It is admitted that his figure is riot strikingly like that of Germany’s famous Chancellor. The monocle is not mentioned.