PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11844, 23 December 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. J. J. Holland was a passenger from Gisborno yesterday by the Elingamite. : Dr. Maclaurin, of Victoria College, Wellington, is at present on a visit to Auckland.,.; v., : ': .'•'. /.W ■ :

f. - Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hemery were passengers from Sydney by the mail steamer Ventura on' Saturday. The Hon. Thomas Mclnnes, of British Columbia, is now on a pleasure trip through the Commonwealth. V ■,'".; "Mrs. •.'•• J. McCosk Clark and the Misses V;Clark. ere •; passengers '. to .New Plymouth yesterday by;-'-the Ngapuhi. ■■'•;.;.■•;.''•' ■": .Mr. A. Horsburg, late of, the Coria, is now third ■;'engineer of the Zealandia, in ■place of Mr. Donaldson, who has resigned. ' Miss K. Van Asch, who intends competing at,the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Cham- ; pionship Tournament, has arrived in Auckland, v . :■•':■•.-';.;

/:/ Mr. . G.; W. S. Patterson,, who has; been on a short visit to Australia, returned ,from i ; Sydney .', by the mail \ steamer Ventoa on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Stead, Miss Stead, j and Mr. W. Stead, of Christchurch, were passengers from Wellington by the Taka- | I puna yesterday. ; - „ : j I: /Professor F. D. Brown, of the Auckland University, and the Misses Brown j returned from Sydney by the mail steamer j ..Ventura on Saturday. ;/ /■/.•; - •'■■ -/i---'"j /.Troopers/C. McGregor and A. Purcell, j who. returned irom South Africa, by way i !of . Australia, were passengers by. the Zealandia from Sydney last night. ;-/'■ The Hon. B. R." Wise, Attorney-General : of New South Wales, accompanied by Mrs. Wise, /were passengers from Sydney by the mail- steamer Ventura on Saturday. - ■■■ Mr. Horace Moore Jones, artist, formerly of Auckland, but who has resided in Sydney for, the last few years, \ is at present in Auckland on a health-recruiting visit. The Rev. H. Anson, who was recently . -appointed to the position of warden of St. John's College, accompanied by Mrs. Anson,! left for New Plymouth yesterday by the ; Ngapuhi./ , Lloyd's Weekly of November 10 has tha following:—Fanny Powel was last heard of in Auckland, New Zealand, 13 years ago; married there to a Mr. O'Brain. Nephew, George Winter asks.. ; Mr. J. W. Tibbs, headmaster of the Auckland - Grammar School, 1 accompanied by Mrs.' Tibbs and family, is about to leave for Hobart, Tasmania, where they will ; spend their Christmas holidays. Mr." Tibbs js p. native of .Tasmania. * .Mrs. .Barton Ireland and Miss Ireland were passengers from Sydney-by the .nail "steamei Ventura on Saturday morning. ; Mrs. Ireland has been absent irom Auckland for about four years, during which time she has been sojourning in England ; and Australia. '~ , Mr. .F. E. Baume was r. passenger to Samoa by ths mail steamer Venture tc i meet Mrs. Baume, who is returning irom San Frandsco to.Auckland by the Sonoma. A ■ large number of friends, including several of-the members of the City Council, assembled at the steamer to wish Mr. Baume good-bye v / ~; A Wellington Press Association telegram states that Mr. T. G. Bogue, an American expert, who is expected to arrive at Auckland by the 'Frisco mail steamer, will make a report on the Otira section of the Midland railway for the Government. Mr. Blow, the Under-Secretary for Public Works, has come '. up to Auckland to meet Mr. Bogue. Trooper Foley, son of Mr. Maurice Foley, of Hobson-street, who has been out in South Africa for the past , two years / with the New Zea- - landers engaged in the war, and Trooper Tuffnell 'returned to Auckland yesterday by - the ; Elingamite, having come on to Wellington from Capetown by the Waiwera. .. - : \.:~ /

, ' Mr. J. W. S. Marehant, who has been : promoted from the position of Commissioner of Crown Lands for -..Wellington,'-to that of > ' Surveyor-General, was (a Wellington Press j , Association telegram states) on Saturday pre- ■ . seated with a service of plate by past and I '•„ i present officers of the Lands art.] Survey De- , partment, •who bad served with him. In ?'./ " the absence of the Minister for Lands the ; ." presentation was made by the' Hon. W. Hall- ■ Jones. , ■ The practice-room of the [ Parnell Drum and Fife Band was the scene of a pleasant little H ceremony on Tuesday evening last, SiU " ,"w ! n the ' president of the'band, the Rev. -U- Kelly, on; behalf of the members, presented the bandmaster, M.. F. R. Stihvell. sfflft f with a handsome silver-mounted walkingtick, in recognition of his services'in con- ' ' • • Will V th ' the rr , band - the Ambers " turned thanks" 5 ' Tl '! sapient briefly re "