PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11367, 9 May 1900, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain Asa Whitney was a passenger to Sydney yesterday by the mail steamer Moana.

Captain Todd, the representee of the Tyser line in New Zealand, left for Napier .yesterday by the Waihora. Sergeant Lyons, of Christchurch, is at present, in Auckland on a visit, and has gone on to Rotorua to visit the sanatorium.

Mr. Jago (according to a Wellington Press Association telegram) has been offered and accepted the position of chief postmaster at Wellington. Mr. Claude Fenwick, of Messrs. T. and S. Morrin (Limited), who has been on a visit to Europe, returned by the R.M.s. Moana from San Francisco yesterday. The friends of the Rev. A. Mitchell, who has been seriously ill at Coromandel for some weeks, will be pleased to learn that he is now reported to be doing fairly well. Mr. E. C. Ranrlle, the present Grand Master of the Coromandel Masonic Lodge, has left for a visit to Europe. He will visit the Paris Exhibition in company with Mr. Colin Frasei, another old Coromandel resiaent.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states that Mr. A. L. Beattie, locomotive engineer on the Hurunui-Bluff section of the New Zealand railways, succeeds Mr, Rotheram as locomotive superintendent for the colony. A Press Association telegram, from Oamara, states that the Hon. S. E. Shrimski "•he is leaving Oamaru to take tip his mldenw in Auckland, owing to ill-health was presented yesterday, by the principal'residents of the place, with an illuminated rddross. which set forth the interest the hon gentleman had always shown in the institutions of the town, and their advancement. A number of speakers referred in eulogistic terms of Mr. Shrimski, who leaves to-day for the North.