PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 297, 20 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

The death is reported m London ,f Mr. Xornian Shaw, architect. .’rcss Association. Admiral Ross, of the I. nited Rates navy, who is making a tour ,f the world, is at present the guest, .f Mr. G. P. Donnelly at Otatara. Mr. Julius Knight, the well-known iclor. arrived in Australia from England last week, under engage.lent to Williamson, Ltd., for a eason of drama. Father Tymons. of the Grecnneadows Seminary, has been temurarily appointed sucei sso;- to theate Dean Grogan as parish priest >.t Meaner. Sir James Mills, general manager >f the I’nion Steam Ship Company, eturmd by the Mnrama. which am •ived at Auckland last, evening, from t trip to England. The Hastings Roman Catholic ■hoir has accepted the offer made>y Mr. A. A. George of his services is conductor, pending- a permanent ippointment being imide. Mr. W. Crichton, of Crichton and McKay. architects. Wellington, the Napier Hospital Board’s architects, inspected the new buildings yesterday, now in course of erection at the hospital. The friends of Mr. and Mrs W. S. fvers. of Hast ings, will regrt t to earn of the d< alb of their three sear-old daughter which took place: it an c.-trly hour this morning. Th>4 ittle sufferer was operated on for in obstruction in tiia throat on Monday last. Mr. John McMahon, late handicapper to the Clarence River Jockey Club (Grafton, New South Wales) has been appointed chief stipendiary sti ward of the New Zealand Racing Conference. The ■Sydney "Daily Telegraph” states that last week Mr. McMahon was with an illuminated address. The marriage was celebrated al The Hague (.Holland) on September Itith. 1912, of Mr. J. S. D. Hyslop-H second son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Hyslop. of Hastings, and .Miss Kathleen Rooters, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. Roeters van Lconep, af The Hague. Mr. Hyslop is advertising manager for the New Zealand Associated Press in London. The Premier in Auckland spent vesterday afternorm transacting departmental business. In the evening he attended a reception m ..be Town Hall. This afternoon Mr. Massey opens the new pest office. The lion. James Allen and the Hon. [{. H. Rhodes spent a busy day in Auckland yesterday. The Hon. . H. Herries arrived in Auckland by the Main Trunk train yesterdav morning .and attended Mr. Massey’s reception in the evening. Mr. M. H. B. Burrell, cadet in the Napier draughting office of the Lands Department, and who has been transferred to the field staff of the Auckland Lands Office, wns yesterday presented with a travelling bag by his fellow officers. Mr. H. H. McKay, chief draughtsman, made the presentation in a few well .;ho:-.cn words, and- Mr. Burrell suitably responded. Lust evening the fellow boarders at "Wanona” presented Mr. Burrell with a p;> • prior to his departure by bo-v I " Auckland. Mrs. J. G. Fraser, an old ami respected resident c.f Poverty Bay. died at Gisborne yesterday, says a Press Association message. She came to Gisborne over forty years ago and took a prominent part in defending Tol.aga Bay when Tc Kooti descended on that settlement.. and is indeed regarded as <ne of the heroines of the raid. Colonel Porter, in his be.e.k. says Mrs Fraser did Spartan duty, arming herself with a gun and doing everything possible to instil a. spirit ot courageous defein-e into the defenders. until relief arrived. The Czar of Russia and family have arrived at Tzarskoi Selo, a town 15 miles south of St. Peters burg. It contains the famous Imperial Paia co, a favourite summer ri sidrnce of the Court. The interior is richly decorated : the walls of one in um :ire encrusted with amber, tlura- ef another with lapis lazuli. The magnificent marble gallery 270 ft et long connects the palace with a dct.-u-hc-d building. The park is full of caprices, such as a Chinese tower and '.iii-ig;'. an Egyptian pyramid, a Turkish kiosk, ami the so-called dc-H-hoiisi s of the princesses. Mr. H. <). Browne, who has been a inciiibci' ot the '‘New Zealand Times” reporting staff for the past ■ ten y< ;> >■■■--, Irnws Wcllinglon to-day i for Whangarci. where he will in future reside, having acquired an : interest in the ■’No-.-thi rn Advocate ; >ubl id) e d in that town. Mr. | Prowne has tor -i long time taken I great int erest in rifh -shoot ing. for i besides bring an active member of I the Karori Rille ( led), he was m I March last appointed secret ary o! ithe New Zealand Rifle Clubs cxe|vutivea.nd has been set-ref :uy ef the I Wellington Rifle Association since jits inception. -Times.