PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10044, 3 February 1896, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. A. J. Cadman is expected in sown in a day or two. Mr. George S. Graham has returned from □is trip to the South. Mr. David Glendenning, the well-known Napier contractor, i« dead. Dr. McGregor arrived from Wellington by the Takapuna on Saturday night. Captain Waller, late of the Flora, has been appointed chief officer of the Anglian. It is stated that Mr. T. W. Hislop intends to again eontest the Oamaru seat at the next general election. Captain J. T. Rolls, of the Union Company e service, was a-passenger from Wellington by the Takapuna on Saturday night. Mr. W. B. Fox, brother of Colonel Fox, was married at Culverden on January 23rd, to Miss Wilson, daughter of Mr. Frederick Wilson, of Cuiverden. Mr. Jay, the well known Greymouth contractor, left for South Africa on Monday lost, where he will endeavour to open a Market for West Coast timber. Mr. F. J. Crawford, of Sumner, who lerved his apprenticeship in the New Zealand Shipping company's ship Waimate, has passed his examination as second mato of a foreign-going ship. Messrs. W. Halse and J. D. J. Visser, tho Commissioners appointed by the Cape of Good Hope Government to report upon the agriculture of Australasia, arrived from tho South by the Glenelg on Saturday, and were taken for a drive round the city and suburbs yesterday. They leave for the Hot Lake? district morrow. During the absence of Mr. James Mills in England, Mr. E. P. Houghton will'net as managing director of the Union Steamship Company. Mr. W. A. Kennedy, who has been in charge of the Wellington office, is to go North on company business, and will be relieved by Mr. W. H. Blacklock. Mr. McFarlane, who has been temporarily In charge of the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been appointed manager of the Ashburton branch of that bauk, and Mr. Stedman, who has been manager of it* Timaru branch for some years, has been appointed manager of the Wanganui branch.