PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11826, 2 December 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Ms. Frank Lawby, M.H.R., returned from .Wellington on Saturday. . Mr. F. Thomas,- ?. Christ-church journalist, is at present on a visit to Auckland. Mr. Silas chief of the Hansard staff, is at present on a visit to his relatives in Auckland.

The Hon. E. Mitchelson and Mrs. Mitcheleon returned from Sydney on Saturday by the mail steamer Sonoma. Mr. L. A. Levy, who has been away or. a short visit to Australia, returned by the Sonoma from Sydney on Saturday. - Private S. inker, lato of' the 65th Foot, has received the New Zealand war medal. Mr. Schlinker was one of the campaigners in the Waikato, and resides •near Hunt'iy. Dr. Wilson, medical officer to the Huntiv coal mines, has just received an illuminated address from the residents of Robertson, New South Wales, where he was recently in practice. Mr. Corbett, member of the New fcjiith Wales Assembly, accompanied by Mrs. Corbett, came across by the Sonoma from Sydney on Saturday, on a short holiday visit to New Zealand.

Mr. Alex. Alison, manager of the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, and Mrs. and the Misses Alison, who have been on a visit to Europe and Australia, are expected t ' return by the s.s. Waikare to-day from Sydney. The funeral of Miss Elizabeth (Sissy) Hotham, took place in the Anglican cemetery, Otahuhu, on Friday afternoon. A large concourse of people followed the remains to the grave. The scholars of deceased's class at P..Mukura school, in charge of the headmaster (Mr. Jones), attended, each with a floral cross. The children of Otahuhu school, in charge of the headmaster (Air. Wilson) and the Papakura children walked on each side of the hearse as pall-bearers. As showing the esteem and affection in which the deceased was held by all classes in the community, the Sisters of Mercy of the Otahuhu Convent sent a beautiful wreath, •with expressions of their deep sympathy. The Rev. Canon Gould was the officiating clergyman. After the lesson had been read in the mortuary chapel, the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Otahuhu, icd the singing of that pathetic hymn, " Days and Moments Quickly Flying." The deceased's sister and brothers, and her uncle and aunts were the chief mourners.