PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 260, 20 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. IL Simson leaves, for Wairoa today. Mr. John Grant, proprietor of the Woodville ' Examiner.'' is on a y isit to his son in Napier. Mr. D. MacMillan, district Engineer, loaves to-morrow for the Titiokura deviation works. Colonel Stuart Newa.ll, C. 8., yvas a passenger by the steamer Rotorua yesterday for London. Mr. Edgar R. Waite, curator of the (’anterbnry Museum, is spending a week or two in Sydney.

Mr. IL IL Groom, a member of the Hawke's Bay Land Board is lying in a critical eomlitiifci at his home in Ormoml ville.

Mr. R. A. Bollaml, Chief Inspector of Scaffolding, who has been on an official visit In Napier, leaves for Wellington by the express train tomorrow morning.

Mr. A. Cameron, teller of the Bank of New Zealand at Cambridge, has been promoted to the managership of the branch of that bank at Taumaranui.

Mr. J. S. Soddon, son of the ’ate Mr. Richard Seddon, is at present staying in Sydney. He is going to England to continue architectural studies.

Mr. Claude E. Webb, representing J. C. Williamson, Limited, arrived in Napier last night to make arrangements for “The Woman in the Case” season. Australia’s oldest inhabitant, Mr. Newman Hollis, died at Port Macquarrie to-day, at the age of 107. He had resided in the colony since his infancy.

Mr. J. H. Board, the well-known English cricket coach, is returning to Neyv Zealand by the lonic, which is due on Monday, under engagement to the Hawke’s Bay Cricket. Association.

Mr. J. Coates, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, and Mr. R. Acton-Adams, one of the largest runholders in Otago, New Zealand, left Sydney last week for a few days’ visit to Coolangatta. At a meeting in the Sydney Town Hall, yesterday, presided over by the Lord Mayor, it was decided to present Madame Melba with an address and a piece of gold plate in recognition of her patriotism in bringing out at great personal sacrifice the Royal Opera Company. Ov-'r £2OO has been subscribed. The many friends of Mr. D. A. Baxter, manager of the Loan and Mercantile Company in Napier, will hear with mingled feelings that he has been promoted to the managership of the Christchurch branch of the company. They will be glad to know that such substantial promotion has come to Mr. Baxter, but they cannot help regretting his departure from the town in which he has won such deserved popularity and esteem. Mr. Baxter has been sixteen years in Napier, and during his residence here he has become intimately acquainted with the commercial and agricultural life of the district, anil his abilities as a business man have won him the unbounded confidence of the company’s large clientele. The company is to be congratulated upon its latest recognition of his services.. Socially, Mr. Baxter will bo greatly missed in Napier. His genial disposition and honourable record made him warm friends among all classes, and his severance of all associations will be deeply regretted. Mr. Baxter has also devoted much of his time to public work, amt his capable services ou numerous public bodies deserves grateful recognition.