PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10403, 30 March 1897, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Pabst returned from Sydney by the Waihora yesterday. Sir John Hall starts on his trip to England on Thursday. The Rev. W. Morley left for the South by the Takapuna yesterday. Mr. Justice Conolly left for New Plymouth by the Takapuna yesterday. Mr. Fishwick has resumed his duties as

chief officer of the Tyser line Hawke's

Bay. Captain W. Farquhar and Mr. W. Laird left for Sydney by the Rotomabaoa last evening. Sub-lieutenant H. P. V. Hickman arrived by the Waihora from Sydney yesterday to join H.M.s. Royalist. Dr. Coates, and Mrs. and the Misses Coates, who have been on a visit to England, returned yesterday by the Waihora from Sydney. Mr. S. Clarke Johnson, the newlyappointed inspector for the colony of the Loan and Mercantile Company, leaves today for Wellington, via the East Coast, by the s.s. Waihora. Mr. Thomas Wallnutt has been appointed accountant of the Union Bank of Australia. in this city, in place of Mr. J. S. Field, who proceeds to Cbristchurch to join the branch of the Bank there. Mr. Arthur Gore, for some years agent for the Australian Mutual Provident Society at Napier, has severed his connection with the institution, and intends to enter into business on his own account in Wellington. Mr. Charles Redwood, of Wairau, one of the best known and most popular public men in the district, is leaving shortly, under engagement, to supervise a large malting business about to be started by a. wealthy syndicate in Queensland. An effort is to be made to perpetuate the memory of the late Mr. H. S. Cox, for some time on the staff of Wellington College, by founding a reading-room in that institution to be known as the "Cox Memorial Room." A committee has been formed with that object in view. Mr. J. \V. Saimond, whose appointment to the Professorship of Law in the Adelaide University, has just been cabled from Adelaide, is the son of, Professor Salmond of the Otago University. He is some 37 years of age, and was educated in Dunedin. He is an LL.B. of New Zealand, and the author of a valuable work on jurisprudence, as well as being a regular contributor to the " Law Quarterly tleview." He has lately been practising in Geraldino, Canterbury, having taken over the practice in that place of Mr. Wilson Smith, now practising in Auckland. At Greytown, on Wednesday, Miss Amy Smith, only daughter of the late Dr. Smith, was married to Mr. McLean, a well-known resident of Kangitikei. The ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride's mother, and was conducted by the Rev. • Charles Murray, M.A. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. Angus Smith ; the bridesmaids being Miss McLean, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss K. Batlibone, the best man being Mr. :V' Booth, of Rangitikei, The dress of the ;":;'■■■■, bride was of grey silk, trimmed with Wm broobe* to matah, with the customary veil u. : •■- ,: and orange-blossoms. The travelling dress _■•"'-■•■£ waa, navy blue, with cream vest and hat. irv- The dresses of the bridesmaids were of '"'.} crepon, that of Miss McLean being, cream ... trimmed with brocbd to'match,' and Miss •': '■'./Rathbone'? pale blue trimmed with white :•'; •;•': brocheV / The presents were numerous and '/"■-■' costly. . __________ . . , .