PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10033, 21 January 1896, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. John Batger returned from Sydney yesterday by the Waihora. Mr. J. M. Batham, Registrar of Deeds in Christchurcb, has been transferred to Wellington. Dr. Collins and Mrs. Collins, of Wellington, returned from an extended visit to the old country by the Gothic last week. Mr. L. D. Nathan will arrive per Monowai from Sydney on Friday. It is his intention to pay another visit to the old country shortly. Advices from- Melbourne state that Mr, W. R. Wilson is making ft good recovery from his recent illness, and is regarded as out of danger. Mr. W. E. Baxter has, we learn, severed his connection with the Church of the Sacred Heart, of which he has been choirmaster for four and a half years. Mr. J. R. Fairfax, senior proprietor of tho Sydney Morning Herald, and his son Wilfred, left Sydney yesterday, per Monowai, on a visit to Auckland. Mr. M. G. Harvey, late chief engineer of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Mamari, is now chief engineer of the Rangatira, which arrived from London yesterday. Amongst) the successful candidates at the recent law examinations was Captain Foster, clerk of the Napier Sfcipendary Magistrste's Court, and formerly of Palmerston North. He secured a pass at" practice and procedure." We understand that Mr. A. C. Arthur, of Gisborne, and formerly member for the East Coast, has had a stroke of luck in Western Australia. Mr. Arthur has gone to London to float a very rich area of ground owned by him and his brother. Mr. G. Elliot, who has been so long and favourably known as one of the staff of the Colonial Bank, at Palmerston North, and who was transferred at the time of the amalgamation to the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, has received notice of his removal to the Bank at Wellington. Baron von Mueller, the Government Botanist of Melbourne, who has long since pas--ed the age of retirement of Victorian public servants, is to be retained for another three months, or rather the Cabinet has postponed for that period the consideration as to the operation of the statute in his case.

Lord and Lady Carbery, who purpose touring New Zealand, arrived at Wellington from the Cape by the Gothic last Sunday week. Lord Carbery is the ninth Baron, and succeeded to the title in 1894. He is 28 years of age. He was formerly lieutenant of the 3rd Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. His seat is Castle Freke, County Cork. Mr. E. T. Gillon, editor of the Wellington Post, and perhaps the best-known of New Zealand journalists, was a passenger by the Waihora yesterday. Mr. Gillon has been to Sydney to seek surgical advice in respect to an internal complaint from which he has been suffering for some considerable time. He underwent an operation, but we understand that the results were only partially successful. Mr. Gillon goes on to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. James Stubbs, well-known residents of Kairanga, celebrated their silver wedding last week, over one hundred guests being present. The large assemblage was most hospitably entertained, and Mr. Stubbs expressed his sincere thanks to those who by their presence had testified to their good feeling, and for the many valuable presents made to Mrs. Stubbs on the occasion.

Students of the Auckland University College and old boys of the Grammar School will be pleased to learn that Mr. D. H.Jackson, M.A , B.Rc., who has beon ab the great German educational centre at Heidelberg, has succeeded in addintr to his past honours by taking a Doctor's Degree at the Heidelberg University. To obtain this degree the student, after conducting a research to a satisfactory conclusion in the laboratory, has to undergo an oral examination in German for two hours. Among the passengers by the Waihora, which arrived yesterday, were Mr. F. W. Webb, C.M.G., Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, and Mr. R. A. Arnold, the Clerk Assistant. The former comes to try the effect of the New Zealand tatbs to re-establish his health, which was seriously impaired by the Redfern railway accident on 31st October, 1894, and Mr. Arnold is trying a course of baths for a rheumatic affection from which he has been suffering for a considerable time. Mr. Francis James Newton, C.M.G., Chief Magistrate in Bechuanaland, who has been appointed to succeed Dr. Jameson as the Chartered Company's Administrator in Mashonaland, served as extra aide-de-camp to Sir Hercules Robinson ab Cape Town in 1881, was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Scanlen, Prime Minister of Cape Colony in 1883, and nerved in the same capacity under Sir H. Robinson in 1884 86.' He became Chief Magistrate of British Bechuanaland in 1888, Colonial Secretary und Receiver-General in 1889, and was appointed Administrator and Chiet Magistrate : in 1892. - '