PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9722, 18 January 1895, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. R. S. Bcsh, S.M., arrived from Whangarci last night. Mr. J. C. Firth left for the South by the Mahinapua yesterday. Mr. George Dunnetfc left for Samoa by the Ovalau last evening. Mr. Coleman Phillips left for Wellington yesterday by the Mahinapua. The Hon. E. Mitchelson left for Wellington by the Mahinapua yesterday. The marriage of Colonel Fox and Miss Cora Russell will take place on the 6th of February. Giffen, Jack Lyons and Reedman, of the South Australian cricketing contingent, are all three in the Government service.

Sir Jenkin Coles, Speaker of the South Australian Assembly, was a small faftner, a trooper, an auctioneer, and a landed proprietor before be entered the House. Mr. A. C. Walker, who has for many *ears occupied the position of purser in the Union Company's Island steamers, has been ippointed travelling agent for the company ,n connection with the South Sea Island trade.

One of the London newspapers states that the late untimely death of Lord Drumlanrig is expected to cause the withdrawal »from the Australian goldfields of one of their best known habitues, viz., Lord Percy Douglas, who now becomes heir to the Marquisate of Queensberry. Bishop Wilson, of Melanesia, arrived afc Napier from Norfolk Island yesterday in the mission yacht Southern Cross, and is to take part in the consecration of the Rev. Mr. Williams as Bishop of Waiapu, at Napier on • Sunday next. From Napier Bishop Wilson goes on to Wellington to be present at the consecration of Bishop Wallis on the 25th instant, and will afterwards visit the other ports of the colony in the Southern Cross.

Mr. John Smith, M.L.C., who died on New Year's Day in Sydney, was a colonist of 55 years' standing, having arrived in New South Wales in 1839. He died at the age of 83. Soon after landing he took to squatting, and by sticking to it made money. He owned Tamboola station in the Molong district. Other stations, namely, Boree, Devomie, Nandillyan, and Narrogal, situated between Wellington and Orange, are now held by his sons.