PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIV, Issue 12373, 11 December 1900, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr J W manager of the Union Steamship Company at Gisborne, has been appointed manager a t Greymoutn. ■_ The Hon J. Carroll, who is visiting his constituents, will remain at Gisborne until Sunday. „,. . Colonel Fox has resigned from the Waipara Road Board, on account of ill-health. Mr W. Devenish Meares was a passengei for Wellington- by the.s.s. Tarawera yesterday evening. Mr C. A. Knigge, who has been fifty yeara in the colony, forty-five of whic!lie has spent in 'Wellington, has decided to leave New Zealand and take up his midence in his birthplace, Wiesbaden, near the Rhine, in Germany. Mr Knigge arrived in Wellington when it contained rive hundred inhabitants, and has remained to witness its growth to a city containing upwards of fifty thousand.

The Hon W. Hall-Jones visited Eitham or, Saturday, and received a number of deputations." In .the evening he was entertained n't'a banquet In reply to the toast at \v.:-, health, the Minister said that the connection with the Main Trurk line' would depend on the report of the- Engineer. On Sunday Ali Hall-Jones was taken for a d'nvc, and b" afterwards left for Hawera, en route foi Wenintrton. The Wesleyan congrecratio* at Ariiburton l-as sent nn invitation to the- Rsv D. O'Donnei.i, of New South Wales, to conduct ? ; mission in Ashburtcn in about three months

time. , _. .•Messrs Lilico and Croshie. of the Timaru Woollen Company, an-d Mr D. Caird. farmer, of Pareora. returned from visits to the Old Country on Saturday.