PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9620, 19 September 1894, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Stevenson left for Sydney by the Mararo* yesterday. Captain George McKenzie, late of the barque Vivid, arrived by the Wairarapa yesterday to assume charge of the new schooner Huia. Miss Dixon, of Mount Albert, and Miss Philips, daughter of Mr. P. A. Philips, the Town Clerk, left on a visit to Australia by the Mararoa yesterday. Captain W. J. Newton, of the Union Company's steamer Mahinapuu, who has been on a holiday visit to Australia, returned by the Wairarapa yesterday. The Roby Fletcher Memorial is being raised in South Australia, with the object of establishing a scholarship iu mental and moral philosophy in the Adelaide University. Captain John Mcintosh, who remained behind at Sydney through illness on the last trip of the Wairarapa, has quite rerecovered, and came over in charge of the steamer yesterday. . Mr. C. Kenderdine, of the Townsville staff of the South British Insurance Company, who has been spending a holiday in Auckland, returned to Australia by the Mararoa yesterday. A considerable sum of money has been collected in Wellington for the proposed memorial to the late Mr. Bethune, and the amount will be devoted to the erection of a memorial wiudow in St. Peter's Church. • A fashionable wedding takes place this afternoon at St..Sepulchre's Church, when Mr. E. Clifton, Inspector of Stock, is to be married to Miss G. Binney, daughter of Mr. G. W. Binney, the well-known auctioneer. Captain Hood, formerly of the schooner Rifleman, an old Chatham Islands settler, is at present in Auckland on a visit. He was seized by the natives, at the time of Te Kooti's escape from the Chathams, tied up and thrown into the water, but ultimately escued. He leaves for Waikato to day. Mrs. Threlfall, wife of Professor Threlfall, of the University ot Sydney, is about to ptblish in London a volume of poems, entitled " Starlight Songs." Mrs. Threlfall is a sister of Mrs. B. R. Wise and of Mrs. E. T. Cooke, wife of the editor of the Westminster Gazette, and formerly editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. Mrs. Margery Matthews, the proprietress of the Mount Alexander Mail, who died at Castlemaine on September 2, was a daughter of Captain Armstrong, of the 71st Irish Fusiliers, and went to Forest Creek in the early days of the colony of Victoria, and was married in Castlemaine to the late Alexander Matthews, a pioneer journalist of the goldfields, who died while proprietor of the Mount, Alexander Mail, in December, 1891. Mrs. Matthews, who was an exceptionally intelligent woman, proved herself very capable not only in the business department of the paper, bub also in the editorial chair.