PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 110, 24 April 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

! A London cable states that Lord | Northcote is seriously indisposed. ; Lord Lansdowne’s recovery is reI tarded by a severe cold. | Lord Onslow is making favouri able progress towards recovery.

Mr. Richard Kiliam has been gazetted German Consul-General of the Commonwealth. New Zealand, and Pacific Islands.

Mrs. W. F. Knight, of Tahoraite. Dannevirke, who has been spending a few days in Napier, returned home by the express this morning. Mr. Gardiner, the newly-appoint-ed Sanitary Inspector under the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, has arrived in Napier and will commence his duties shortly. Dr. W. W. Moore left by the express train this morning for Dunedin, where he w ill conduct the anatomical examination held at the Otago University.

Mr. and Mrs. Havlod Smith and Mrs. (Dr.) Dawson, of Pahiatua, left Napier, where they have been spending a brief holiday, by motor car yesterday. The wedding of Mr. P. W. Fourneau, of Hastings, and Miss R. G. Brabazon, of Oakleigh. was solemnised in the Anglican Church at Norsewood last week bj’ the Rev. W. M. Cockerill.

The Bishop of Waiapu and Mrs. Averill left by the mail train this morning for Auckland to take part in the consecration of the new Bishop of Auckland. Bishop Averill, acting on medical advice, will then proceed to Rotorua. The family of the late Mrs. Skerrett, who died in Napier on Friday, included, besides Mr. C. P. Skerrett (King's Counsel, of Wellington), Mr. King Skerrett, of South America, and four daughters, three of whom are now in England, the other residing in South America. A third son (Bunny) was killed in. the Boer war.

Mr. Charles C. Robertson, who was connected with the Post and Telegraph Department since 1867, died at Wellington yesterday, aged 62. For two years before his death, he was in charge of the Telegraph Engineer’s district of Wellington. He was previously Inspector of Telegraph for Nelson, and before that he was officer in charge of Wellington Telegraph Office. The Hon. Jas*. Carroll, ActingPrime Minister, left Auckland by the Main Trunk express for Wellington on Thursday nigfct. The Hon. Geo. Fowlds (Minister for Education) left by Friday’s express, and the Hon. J. A. Millar, who has been spending holidays fishing at Taupo, has also returned to Wellington. The Hon. Thos. Mackenzie opened a new Post Office at Christchurch on Saturday and in the evening took steamer to Wellington.