PERSONAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9990, 29 November 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

PERSONAL.

Mr. Reid, manager of the Colonial Bank has declined the position of assistant manager in the Bank of New Zealand. Messrs, J. McKerrow and S. Percy Smith, and Major-General Schaw have bave been elected Governors of the New Zealand Institute. The appointment of Mr. Robert Pitcaithly as United States Consular Agent at Christchurch, vice Mr. Albert Cuff, resigned, is provisionally recognised. Sir ■ Henry Norman, lato Governor of Queensland, arrived at Wellington by the Mararoa on Wednesday, November 20th, and is a guesb at Government House until the Ruapehu loaves for London. Mark Twain (Mr. S. L. Clemens), accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Auckland by the Mahinapua on November 20, and gave his first "At Home" next evening, in the City Hall, to a crowded audience. The party took their departure on November 26. Mr. and Mrs. Donald McNicol, who have resided in the Palmerston district for 42 years, celebrated their diamond wedding on November 7, old and young residents turning out almost en mam to pay their

respects. A deputation of boot manufacturers and importers, met on November 6 at Mr, Gabriel' Lewis' warehouse for blie purpose of meeting Mr. Hodgson, and presenting him with a very handsome secretaire for his valuable services rendered to the boob trade.

Brother W. Beehan, P.D.M., was the recipient of a present from the district executive of the H.A.C.B. Society. The presentation has taken the form of a P.D.M. collar, and was made by Brother \V. Kane, D.P. Brother Beehan acknowledged the gift in appropriate terms. Mr. Duncan McCorquodale, salesman for the Northern Roller Milling Company, is leaving Auckland to start with two of his brothers a roller flour mill in New South Wales. The counting house staff met on November 25 to present him with a handsome valise and silver-mounted dressing case.

About £800 having been subscribed in Dunedin to the Dr. Stuart Memorial Fund, the committee obtained a model of a statue of Dr. Stuart from Mr. William Leslie Morrison, of Wellington, and are now waiting till the fund is augmented sufficiently to enable them to give the order for the statue. About £900 will be required. The clay model of the Ballance Memorial is considered by the committee of the fund to be , in every way satisfactory, and the designer (Mr. R. R. MacGregor) is to be requested to supply a photograph of tho plaster model taken from the clay, in order to compare it with the marble statue when finished by Mr. W. J. Helyer, the contractor.

On his return to business on Monday, Nov. 4, after a visit to the old country, Mr. Arthur 11. Nathan was accorded a warm weloome by the employees of the firm with which he is connected. Mr. Thomas W. Allen, warehouse manager, presented an address on behalf of the employees, of whom there were aboub 30 present.

A memorial is to be erected by tho stewardesses in the Union Steamship Company's service to tho brave stewardesses who lost their lives by the wreck of the 8.8. Wairarapa, and the Dunedin City Council Reserves Committeo have agreed to granb a site in the Northern Cemetory. Designs for a memorial have been received, the cosb being estimated at about £50.

In the City Hall on Nov. 20, a very successful concert, tendered to Mr. F. M. Alexander, the well-known elocutionist, as a farewell by his pupils, was held. Ab the interval, His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. J. Holland), on behalf of Mr. Alexander's pupils, presented him with a handsome illuminated address, and in a shorb speech passed a high eulogy on the recipient.

A pleasing ceremony took place at Owharoa, when Mr. S. Farmer, on behalf of the employees of the Owharoa Gold Mining Company... presented Mr. A. Thorburn, their late manager, with a handsome token of their appreciation of his service. The presentation took, the form of a beautiful marble clock, inlaid with malachite, and bearing a silver plate engraved with tho name of recipient, and by whom presented. Mr. Soffern, the Editor cf the Taranaki Herald, retired on Nov, 2 into private life, after forty years' connection with newspapers in New Zealand, having been twenty-eight years editor of the Herald. He was presented on Nov. 1 with an illuminated address and several presents by tho staff. In his valodictory epistle Mr. Seffern refers to his new work "Chronicles of tho Garden of New Zealand," which he says he hopes to publish in a month. Mr, Walter Pcnn is Mr. Seffern's successor.

An interesting social gathering of workers took place in the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms on Nov. 26. The president, Mr. J. L. Wilson, occupied the chair. After a bountiful tea a meeting wus held. Devotional exercises concluded, presentations were made to Mr. John Douglas of a beautiful illuminated address on his retiring from the leadership of tho Sunday evoning evangelistic choir, and to Mr. W. J; England, organist at the Sunday afternoon services in the Young Men's Christian Association lecture hall, of an address, hymn-book, and date-box ill Russian leather, surmounted with clock.

Mr. Charles T. Callis, teller at the Wellington branch of the Bank of Australia, was married ab St. Mark's Church, Sussex Square, to Miss Nimmo, eldest daughter of Mr. Z. -Nimmo. The wedding breakfast was served ab the residence of the bride's parents, in Cambridge Terrace, and amongst tho presents was a very handsome clock, set in massive marble, presented by the staff of the Bank, with which Mr. Callis has been connected since lie left his first business appointment, which was given him by Sir Julius Vogel as clerk on the office staff of the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition of 1885. The happy couple left Wellington by the midday train for Palmerston North.

Mr. Michael Davitb arrived at Wellington on Saturday afternoon, November 23, and was mot by Sir P. Buckley, the Hon. Mr. Blake, Dr. Grace, the Hon. W. McCullough, and other leading men. Later in the day a formal welcome was tendered to him at the Occidental Hotol. It was intended to present him with a purse of sovereigns, bub he declined. Representatives were present from tho National Federation, the labour bodies, the women's associations, etc. Tho speeches were of the briefest description, and were confined to expression of welcome. Although Mr. Davitt refused to take a .present ,of 20 guineas for himself as a souvenir of his visit, he accepted it on behalf-of the Irish National Party, and will hand it over to Mr. Justin McCarthy. Mr. Davitt told the Wellington branch of the Irrfh National Federation that they had acted moro consistently than any other branch in the Southern Hemisphere in assisting the Home Rule cause during the last fire or six years. Mr. Davitt was accorded a hearty reception in Napier, where ho was welcomed by His Worship the Mayor., His lecture in the evening was crowdod. . v

A Kanaka named Kidd, a seaman on board the brigantine Linda Weber, trading to the Islands, was seriously assaulted at the end of the Railway wharf, ab 11.30 on November 23rd by being struck on the head with ft brick in a scufflo by gome person unknown. Ib appears he was going on board-his ship at tho time, and his outcries awoke his comrades, who are all kanakas, and they came on deck only in time to hear the footsteps of some persons hurrying up the wharf. They took Kidd below and bandaged his head. He was afterwards taken to the Hospital in a cab. On being examined, the patient was found to have had his skull fractured, and the unfortunate man succumbed to his injuries.. An inquesb was held on the 26th November, before Dr. Philson, coroner. The evidence of a number of witnesses was taken, and the inquest then adjourned for a week on the application of Inspector Hickeon, who was present ab the inquiry, till Tuesday next, ab ten a.m. In the evening four seamen—Charles Davidson, John Simmons,. Antonio Santos, and. Myluis Simave — from .vessels ii) port, were arrested on a charge of murder of the deceased Kanaka, Ned Mateloo, of the brigantine Linda Weber,