PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10080, 16 March 1896, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mm. F. J. Moss arrived from Rarotonga by tbe Richmond on Saturday night. The Hon. John McKenzio, Minister of Lands, arrived at Gisborne, yesterday, by the Waihora.

Mr. A. Brown, of the Manapouri, has been promoted to the chief oflicership of the Mararoa.

Mr. and Mrs. John Endeau, of the Waitemata Hotel, have loft on a short holiday trip to the South. One of the oldest and moat respected settlers in the Upper Tutaenui, Mr. John Griffin, sen., is dead.

Lieutenant Gregory, of the Blenheim City Rifles, is at present undergoing examinations for commissions.

Mr. William Udy, of Greytown North, intends to contest the Wairarapa seat at the next general election.

Captain Hill, formerly in command of the Himalaya, has joined the staff of K.M.s. Teutonic, the crack liner of the White Star Company. The engagement is announced of Miss Ethel Rosenthal, daughter of Mr. David Rosenthal, of Toorak Road, South Yarra, to Mr. Sydney Philips, of Auckland, New Zealand.

Mr. William Gibbs, formerly of Totaranui, and well known in Nelson, having at one time contested the Superintondency of the province, had a paralytic stroke last week at Nelson.

Thß Rev. A. H. Collins is at present on a vieit to Cambridge, Waikato, for the benefit j}[ his health, and is expected to bo able to resume his duties at the Ponsonby Baptist) Church next Sunday. , The Rev. Jas. Blaikio resumed his ministerial duties yesterday at she Tabernacle, having recovered from an attack of blood poisoning, contracted while camping out at Greeh Bay, Avondale South. Mr. and Mr«. A. S. Allan, of Feilding, are leaving on a trip to the Old Country. A nmr.ber of their friends were present as the tr£.in left the Feilding station on Monday, to say " good-bye," and wish them a pleasant journey. Mr. Allan hss been for gome time a member of the Feilding Borough Council. Viscount Mnssarene, of Ferrard, who Is going to spend some time in touring in New Zealand with his eldest son, the Hon. Oriel Skuffington, is an Irish nobleman, and mites his lineage back to the reign of Henry •A' am Skeffington was appointed by the much-married King His ' Majesty a Commissioner to Ireland, empowered to restrain the exactions of the soldiers. Viscount Massarene was born in 1842 and married in 1870 the only child of Major Whyte-Melville, whose "The Interpreter' is one of the most fascinating of' novels. The Hon. Oriel Skeffineton is 7 84 years of age.