PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11562, 28 January 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. J. B. Williamson returned "from Sydney by the Mar-area yesterday. : Mr. A. Davis was a passenger "from Sydney yesterday by the Mararoa.. Captain Jackson Barry was a passenger to New Plymouth yesterday by the Ngapuhi. Captain Mcintosh, of Onehunga, who has been attending the Federal Rifle meeting, returned from Sydney yesterday by the Mararoa..- ' ■..•• '.' ■•.■ _ Captain Plunkett, surveyor to the local Underwriters' Association,' returned from Gisborne yesterday by the Talune. Mr. Alex. Alison, manager of the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, returned from : the South-by the Rotoiti on Saturday. Mr. Bluett, formerly first mate of the ship Wesfcland, is third officer of the Abbey, Holme, the American liner, now in port. Mr. James Allen, M.H.R., is said to be suffering seriously from facial paralysis, and,, in consequence, he may probably withdraw from political life. The Rots. J. P. Cowie and W. Beatty were passengers to Napier by the Te Anau on Saturday, to attend the sittings of the Anglican General Synod.' - Sir G. M. O'Rorke.Messrs.. W. J. Napier. and G. Fowlds, M.H.R.'s, and Mr. Samuel Vaile, who had been to Australia attending tha Commonwealth celebrations, returned from Sydney by the Mararoa yesterday. Among the members of the Sixth 'New Zealand Contingent, about to leave for South Africa, is Mr. Louis William Blundell, whose father, the late Mi. Henry Blundell, wiH be remembered for his connection with the Wellington Guards, as well as for his public spirit. • At the warehouse of Messrs; H.B. Morton and Co. on Friday morning, Trooper Alfred B. Morton, who is leaving for South Africa, with the Sixth Contingent, was presented by the staff of the firm with a silver flask, suitably inscribed. The recipient, in acknowledging the gift, said that if it should ever be his luck to return to commercial life he hoped he might be associated with as good a lot of fellow employees as those of whom he was about to take leave. Mr. Edward Morton, uncle ;of the departing trooper, presented him with the most appropriate gift of a pair of handsome fieldglasses, by Dolland, of London.