PERSONAL ITEMS.
Rabbi Goldstein was a passenger to Lyttelton yesterday by the s.s. Westralia. Mr. liiddick, inspector of dairies, will pay an official visit to Auckland in a day or two. Mr Rothcrham, the locomotive superintendent of the New Zealand railways, is at present in Auckland. Mr. J. O'Meaia denies the authenticity of the report that he purposes contesting Wakatipu seat at the general election. Mr. J. D. Sievwright-, who has been 12 or 13 years connected with the North Otago Times, has been offered and has accepted the position of sub-editor on the staff of the New Zealand Times, Wellington. Our Maukn correspondent writes:—file many friends of Mi. Jos. Clark, of Waiati, will'be glad to hear that be is all right again, and what was reported about him from Onehunga was not of a very serious nature. Captain W. Scotland, late of the s.s. Actea, and who has been for some time at Home superintending the construction of the Slaw, Savill, and Albion Company's fine new steamship Kumara, has been appointed to the command of liei. Mr. John Carson, who has been a leading hand in the fitting branch railway workshops, fit- (Newmarket, for a number ol years, has got deserved promotion, and leaves hero to-morrow, en route foi West port, where he assumes the position oi running sheds and workshops foreman His colleagues and friends at New market and Auckland do not intend to al low him to go away without a memento o the parting, and have therefore decided U present him with a Silver tea and CGfle service, suitably inscribed. A very pleasant little social gatherinj took place at the Hamilton Hospital las week (writes our correspondent), the objec being to say farewell to Dr. and Mrs. Kenny previous to their departure for Rotorua Mr. T. Walter, on 'behalf of the nursiii] staff, presented Di. and Mis. Kenny wit! a handsome pair of silver entree dishes suitably inscribed. In doing so, he re ftrred to the high esteem in which t-li doctor is held by the staff, and the gooi feeling which had always existed, and tli great regret that was felt at his departure He wished the doctoi and his wife God speec and hoped that they might be long spare to use the souvenir. Mr. Waltei then, o behalf of. a numbei of lady friends, presents Mrs. Kenny with a valuable silvei trai In doing so, he spoke in eulogistic terms i the lady's estimable qualities, and the loi and esteem her friends felt for her. D Kenny replied, and assured his friends thi he and his wife did not require any souven to remind thein of the many happy da; they bad spent in Hamilton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10969, 25 January 1899, Page 6
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