PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10036, 24 January 1896, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir James Hector left for Wellington by the Mahinapua, yesterday.

Mr. H. A. Gordon, F.G-S., Mining Inspector, arrived from the Thames by the Gairloch yesterday.

Among the passengers by the mail steamer Monowai, due from Sydney to-day, are Judge Windeyer and Zimmerman, the cyclist champion.

An inmate of the Parramatta Asylum named "Gipsy" Lee, died in that institution a few days since, aged 102. He was a centenarian when ho entered, and arrived in New South Wales as a convict 75 years ago.

Mr. Arthur M. Sidey, who has resided in Napier for a number of years, and who was employed as teller in the branch of the National Bank there, has returned to Dunedin, to manage the business of Messrs. A. M. Sidey and Co.

The Rev. Mr. Scott, who has attended more men on the scaffold than perhaps any other living clergyman, retired from duty as gaol chaplain in Melbourne, after he had seen young Strange, the Gippaland murderer, executed, last week.

Mr. D. McKellar, the present Collector of Customs at Wellington, has succeeded Mr William Laing as Superintendent of Quarantine at Wellington, and Messrs. R. Carter and C. S. Nixon have been appointed Measuring Surveyors at Wellington and Danedin respectively.

Mr. W. Jeesop, a clerk in the Wellington Postal Department, who has been transferred to Auckland, having received promotion, haa received from the employees of the Wellington department a very handsome souvenir, in testimony of the esteem in which he was held amongst them. Owing to his hurried departure from Wellington, his fellow clerks were unable to get up the presentation before he left, but they forwarded it on to Mr. S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster here, with the request that he should present it to Mr. Jessop on their behalf. The present is a beautiful and massive gold Albert guard, with locket attached, and tho latter on one side bears the inscription, " Presented to W. Jessop by the officers of the Wellington P. 0., 1895." On the reverse side is a horseshoe and whip. Mr. Biss, in making the presentation, said the fact that his brother officers had forwarded this recognition as a mark of their esteem, was etrong proof of the estimation in which Mr. Jessop was held by them. Mr. Jessop has been in the Wellington Postal Department for about 20 years, and he has never before been removed from that office until bis promotion to Auckland. While in Wellington he also occupied a high position in the Masonic Order.