PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11579, 18 February 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. J. Napier, M.H.R., and Mrs. Na-H pier, arrived from Wellington on Saturday. Among the passengers by the Rotoiti on Saturday was Dr. McGregor, Inspector of Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums. Sir Maurice O'Rorke returned from attending the sitting of the Senate of the University last week, and he and Lady O'Rorke are now on a visit to Te Aroha. Sir James Hector, Chancellor of the New ', Zealand Universitv. arrived from the South by the s.s. Rotoiti on Saturday morning, to attend the sitting of the senate to be held in Auckland. Our Coromandel correspondent writes that Mr. P. Macleod, 8.A., B.Sc, director of ■ the Coromandel School of Mines, has been Appointed to the responsible position of lecturer in chemistry, assaying, and miner- ] alogy at Hobart University and Technical School. Mr. Macleod is a New Zealand na-. tive, and received his education in the 3 colony. The salary with attachments is . said to be worth about £400 a year. The Primate (Bishop Cowie) arrived lrom Napier with, the Imperial troops on Saturday. ■ He was much amused at the statement telegraphed from Napier that he intended going to England with the troops. It seems that the four chaplains who are travelling with the troops had all left Wellington for Auckland overland, via Rotorua, and in the absence of the regular chaplains the Primate agreed to come to Auckland on the Britannic.

A Wanganui Press Association telegram states that Mr. H. Buxton, traffic manager of the Wanganui section of New Zealand Railways, who has just been transferred to Auckland, was given a send-off by representatives of all grades of the service, on Saturday night, and presented with a silver tea and coffee- service, silver tray, silvermounted cut-glass spirit stand, and smoker's outfit. Mr. Piper, late of the Greymouth. section, succeeds Mr. Buxton at Wanganui. The Rev. Father Corcoran,'of St. Patrick's Cathedral, has been appointed parish priest of Panmure. Great regret is expressed by the parishioners of St. Patrick's at his departure from the city. Father Corcoran arrived here from Ireland six months ago, and was appointed curate of the cathedral. The Rev. Father O'Carroll. also of the cathedral, has been appointed parish priest of Kihik'hi. Father O'Carroll has made many friends in the cathedral parish. An interesting wedding was celebrated in Wellington, on February 14, when Miss Leah Moeller, fourth daughter of the late Tvlr. Philip Moeller, was married to Mr. William John Poetz, the representative of a leading firm of silverware manufacturers in New York city. The wedding was s quiet one, owing to a recent bereavement it the family, Trooper John Moeller .'"living died of enteric in South Africa. A cheerful incident in connection with the marriage, however, was the unexpected return of Trooper Robert Moeller, in the Karamea, in time (the Tarawera having been unexpectedly delayed for half-an-hour), to wish his sister and her husband good-bye on their honeymoon trip in the South, and all happiness in the future.