PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 January 1895, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. De Zooche, formerly of Dunedin, has died in New York. Mr. John Grice, of Waikato, leaves for England this week. Signor and Madame Satirise, of Dunedin, ire passengers to Sydney by the Tasmania. Dr. McGregor, Inspector of Hospitals and Asylums, arrived from Wellington yesterday by the Takapuna. ■ Mr.Chaa. Hudson, late district traffic manager, leaves for "Wellington to-day to take up the duties of his new post. Mr. J. North, son of the Rev. A. North, of Dunedin, who has been supplying the Mount Eden Baptist Church for some two months with much acceptance, returns to bis studies this week. After a brief interval be will enter permanently on the work of preaching. By the death of Sir Edmund Lechmere, says Christchurch Truth, a young Christchurch girl will become Lady Lechmere. The late baronet's eldest son was here a few years ago, and married a niece of Mr. Charles and Mr. W. E. Samuels, well known among us ; and by the death just announced, he succeeds to the baronetcy and the estate. The Rev. Thomas Cook, English Wesieyan evangelist, who has been recently conducting missions in Australia with marked success, may be expected in Auckland shortly. He commences his New Zealand mission in this city, and will visit Wellington, Christchurch, Ashburton, and Timaru, closing his mission in this colony al; Dunedin in March next. < A short time ago Mr. T. F. Faulkner, the blind organist, visited Auckland and gave an organ recital in Pitt-street Church. He has been organisb at Trinity Wesleyan Church, Dunedin, for seven years, and also officiated for some time at two other city churches. On the occasion of his recently leaving Dunedin for Christchurch he was presented with a purse of sovereigns and a letter by the subscribers expressive of their ■* appreciation of his abilities. Colonel Reginald Dalgety, C.8., commanding the York and Lancaster (65th) Regiment, arrived at Wellington by the Rimutaka from London last week. Colonel Dalgety, who is a cousin of the senior partner of the firm of Dalgety and Co., is on leave of absence for six months, and after touring New Zealand and Australia, proceeds to Java, Singapore, and Ceylon, and then on to Capetown to rejoin bis regiment, which is stationed there. Mr. Buchanan, late chief officer of the Ruapebu, is now chief officer of the Rimutaka. Messrs. White-Parsons and Forbes,; who were third and fourth officers of the Bimutaka last trip, have each been promoted a step; and Mr. Mardon, late of the Kaikoura, is fourth officer. Mr. McMaster, late chief steward of the Ruapehu, now occupies a corresponding position on the Bimutaka, and Mr. A. Hume, a son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hume, is second refrigerating engineer of the same vessel.