PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10835, 19 August 1898, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Lordship Bisiior Lexihax left for New Plymouth by the Gairloch yesterday afternoon.

It is rumoured that Major Gudgeon is likely to receive the appointment of British Resident at Rarotonga. Mr. P. A. Ediniston, manager of the Accident Insurance Company, was a passenger to Wellington by the Rotoiti yesterday. Mr. Brown, of the Westport Coal Company, who has been on a short visit to Auckland,' 1 left for Wellington yesterday by the Rotoiti.

The Mayor of Auckland and Mr. Thomas Cotter, city solicitor, leave Wellington by train this morning and will arrive in Auckland to-morrow.

The death of the Rev. Mother Bernard ■Walshe, the Venerable Mother-General of the Sisters of St. Joseph, near Sydney, took place on August 2. The Rev. T. S. Forsyth has resigned as honorary secretary and treasurer of the Evangelical Alliance of New South Wales, and the Rev. R. Dey has been appointed as his successor.

The Rev. R. M. Eraser and his family arrived in Sydney last week from Tasmania on their return to Epi, New Hebrides, where Mr. Fraser is the missionary of the Presbyterian Church of Tasmania. The Rev. W. E. and Mrs. Bromilow, of the New Guinea Wesleyan Mission, who have been on furlough for a few months in Australia, expect to leave Sydney for the Islands towards the end of September. ]Jr. Gallagher, the Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of Goulburn (New South Wales), was recently entertained at a banquet at Corowa, and was presented oil behalf of the parishioners with an address and a purse of sovereigns. It may not be generally known, says the New Zealand Times, that the Mr. Richard Meagher, whose name appeared as the chosen of one of the New South Wales electorates, in the list of successful Parliamentary candidates, is the same " Dick" Meagher who achieved such notoriety in connection with the Dean poisoning case and was subsequently struck off the roll of barristers.

Yesterday. Mr. George Niccol received a cable message from Mr. Carmichael, mate of the. barque Woosung, from Burnett Heads, Queensland, notifying him of the death of ■ the master, Captain Thomas A. Fry. No information as to the cause of death was given in the message sent. The Woosung left the Bluff for Lady Elliott Island about a month ago, to load guano for Kobe, Japan, and when the vessel sailed Captain Fry was iii excellent health. Mrs. Fry and daughter were passengers bv the barque, and were on board at the time Captain Fry died. The deceased was about 15 years of age, and was very well known in Auckland, having been master of a number of vessels engaged in the intercolonial trade. He was of a genial and kindly nature, a thorough seaman, and bore a very high character for integrity in all business matters. His many friends", both in Auckland and other parts of New Zealand, and in Australia, will regret his untimely decease, and deeply sympathise with Mrs. and Miss Fry in their great bereavement.