PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10477, 24 June 1897, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. James Smith, the discoverer of the Mount Bischoff tin mine, died recently in Launceston, at the age of 70. Mr. John Seed, chief engineer of the Union Company's steamer Mahinapua, is to be married shortly to a Wellington lady. Tuesday, Jubilee Day, was the birthday of the Right Honourable Richard J. Seddon, L.1..D, P.C., M.H.R., Premier and Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand. Captain Davies, late chief officer cf the Huddart-Parker steamer Anglian, has been appointed master gf the brigantine Stanley, in place of Captain Morrison, who will proceed to Sydney to take charge of the barque Fiado. The New Zealand Insurance Company has decided to open a branch of its business at New Plymouth, and Mr. H. M. Didsbury, of the Wellington branch, has been appointed manager of the new branch. Mr. Didsbury leaves to take up his new duties in a week or two. Mr. Didsbary's absence from Wellington will be a distinct loss in musical as well as in athletic circles. Mr. A. G. Johnson, who acted as marshal in connection with the demonstration made by the citizens of Wellington when Lord Glasgow and family took their departure for Great Britain, has received a letter from our ex • Governor, acknowledging with thanks the receipt of photographs of tbe scene on the wharf and in the harbour on that occasion. Lord Glasgow adds.that at the time of writing (11th May) Lady Glasgow and family and himself were busily engaged in getting Kelburne House, at Fairlie, on the Clyde, in order. J)ewe of the death, in Western Australia, of Mr. William Jenkins, well-known in all the colonies as a theatrical manager, has been received at Wellington. Mr. Jenkins was last in Wellington with the Cuttica Concert Company, and prior to that be was concerned in the visits of other musical and theatrical celebrities to New Zealand. For many years also he was associated with I he staff of Messrs. Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove. The same letter conveys the intelligence that Mr. Richard Keating, another popular manager, is dangerously ill with typhoid fever. A very pretty wedding took place at St. Matthew's Church on Tuesday afternoon, when Mr. J. H. Trelease, manager of the Woodstock Main Reef Gold Mining Company, Karangahake, was married to Miss Beatrice Maud Trelease, the youngest daughter of Captain and Mrs. Thomas Trelease, of Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England. The Rev. J. Harrison, of Coromandel, was the officiating minister. The bride, who recently arrived from London by tbe s.s. Kaikoura, looked exceedingly well in a dress of cream serge, and whs given away by Mr. John Endean. Miss Endean was the bridesmaid. She was' dressed in pale grey, wearing a very handsome gold brooch, the present of the bridegroom. Mr. C. Trelease, brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man. As the party left the church the " Wedding March" was played very, effectively by Mr. J. T. Knight. The honeymoon is to be spent at Lake Takapuna. A very pleasing ceremony took place on Monday last at the Bank of New Zealand, Hamilton, when Mr. James Hume, the popular Waikalo manager of that institution, was the recipient of a handsome album containing an illuminated address and the photographs of the officers with whom he has been associated during hi* 36 years' service in the bank. The presentation was made by Mr. F. J. Brooks, the bank's agent at Cambridge, on behalf of tbe officers subscribing to the testimonial, and he, in a few well-chosen remarks spoke of the great esteem and affection in which Mr. Hume was held by all those who had served under him. Mr. Hume, in reply stated that it was with great pleasure he accepted the memento of the goodwill that bad always existed between himself and those who had been associated with him in the bank's service, and that no other form of presentation could, have given him greater pleasure. In addition to the names already published as guests at the Northern Club's ball on Tuesday night the following were present -.—Captain Selby H. Ash and the officers of H.M.S. Goldfinch, Miss Armstrong, Mr. H. C. Bagnall, Mr. James Bain, Mr. L. Bankart, Mrs. Browning, Miss Chatfield, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. A. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. H. Cox, lb, J. Daveney, Captain and Mrs, Daveney, Miss Dixon, Mr. E. G. Elliot, Mrs. Flint, Mrs. Gillies, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Percy Gould, Mrs. Goodson, Miss Hardy, Mr. Martyn Hume, Mr. Lang, Mr. Stuart Hurray, Miss Mclllvene, Mr. D. Mac(Jormick, Mrs. A. Kerr-Taylor, Miss Taylor, Miss Torrance,. Mr. Claude Purchas, Miss Percival, Mr. J. Phillips, Mr. J. E. Partington, Mr. George Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Katbbone, Mr. - Riding, Mrs. Sowerby, Miss Clare Smith, Mrs. Skiffington Smyth, Lieutenant -Colonel Shepherd,' Messrs. Seavil (2), Mr. J. Sykes, Mr. Smales, Mr. and Miss WorsD, Mr. G. Way mouth, Mr. A. E. WhiUker. '! Thanks are doe to Mr. Keesing and Mr. Adam Cairns for the use of the ground on which the supper tent was erected and the Messrs. Winks end Hall for Nine of the table decorations. :