PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12571, 5 August 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr T. C. Field, Mayor of Lyttelton, and Mr G. A. town clerk, returned from Wellington, bv the s.s. Waikaro on Saturday. Messrs W. W. Collins, M.H.R., and CL J. Smith, M.H.R., were passengers by the same steamer. Among the passengers from the north by the . s.s. Tarawera on Saturday were Sir G. M. O'Rorke, the Hon* C. C. Bowen, H. Gourley and D. Pinkerton, Dr Do Renzi, Captain Bone, and Mr C. A. O. Hardy, M.H.R. The Rev Otho Fitzgerald, who has had charge of the parish of St Thomas's, Newtown, practically ever since it was a parish, and who was also at one time curate of St Mark's, Wellington, intends (says the "Post") to resign his charge about the beginning of September, he having recently joined the Central Africa University Mission. Mr Fitzgerald is going first to England, and thence he will journey to Central Africa, where he will, be stationed at Licoma, an island on Lake Nyassa. Mr Fitzgerald,-who has been engaged in clerical work in. Wellington since 1893,'is a son of the late Controller-General. The Wellington correspondent of this journal states that, in> letters to Mr Donne, of the Tourist Department, Sir Donald Wallace and -Mr Pearce, the artist for the " Sketch," who visited this colony with the Royal party, both express a hope to re-visit New Zealand at no distant date. Miss H. Coupland, of this city, sent two copies of a song composed by her, " Mulg'a' Town," to Lady Catherine Coke, asking her to present a copy to the Duchess of York. She has received a reply stating that the Duchess had been pleased to accept one cf the copies sent. It is reported that Sir John M'Kenzie's condition is again, critical, and that the members of his family havo been summoned to lis residemco.