PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10405, 1 April 1897, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hib Worship the Mayor (Mr. A. Boardman).is stated to be slowly improving in health.

A cable has been received from Professor Thomas, from Australia, to say that be may be expected in Auckland on Monday next.

One of the inmates of the Castlemaine Benevolent Asylum is a nonogenarian named John Burns, who was born in Sydney in 1802.

Mr. J. R. Montgomery has resigned his position on the staff of the Otago Boys' High School, having been appointed beadmaster of the Geraldine State School.

Professor N. P. Gerard l'ochin, of London, is at present staying at Lake House Hotel, Rotorua. He is engaged writing a book on the geology, botany, and ethnography of the South Sea Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Humphry Haines, who have been on a visit to England, arrived at Wellington by the Ruahine, on Tuesday, and will come on to Auckland by the Tasmania, which is due on Sunday morning next.

Sergeant Barberry, who has been appointed by the Government Artillery Drill .Instructor, is an old Canterbury boy. He left New Zealand some years ago, entered the Imperial service in the Royal Artillery, and has become an expert in drill.

Mr. G. W. Mcintosh, manager of the Blenheim branch of the National Bank, has arrived in Wellington, to assume temporarily the managership of the local office of the bank, during the absence of Mr. Gee, in England. Mr. Gee is leaving by the Gothic, to-day.

At Masterton, on Tuesday morning, Miss Flora Wallace, neic* of the late Mr. Howard Wallace, of Wellington, and sister to Mrs. W. Hirechberg, of Masterton, was married to Mr. Frederick Chalmers, son of Mr. F. B. Chalmers, of Fernihurst. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. C. Yorke.

During his residence at the Hospital, Dr. J. C. Pabst has earned a high name for first-class work as assistant medical officer, and his reputation now bears the hall-mark of the profession, as upon his recent visit to the Melbourne University he took with great credit the degree of Doctor cf Medicine, which, as is well known, is the highest qualification obtainable. He has received many congratulations from his friends on his well-earned success, and it will doubtless be gratifying to the public interested in Hospital. |