PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12077, 22 September 1902, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. James SruHntT.Y returned from Napier by the Wuikare yesterday. The Hon. E. Mitchelson returned from j Svdnev the Mararoa yesterday. I 'Colonel was a passenger from Wellington bv the Takapuna on Saturday. : ■ Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Campbell returned ; from their visit to Australia by the Mnruloa yesterday. . • . Captain George Crawshaw arrived trom •Sydney by the Mararoa yesterday, and takes command of the Walka're. to-day. , _ J Captain G. A. Lobb. late of the 1 avium, , who came up in command of the Waikare yesterday, has been granted holiday leave for a few weeks, and will remain in Auckland for the present. ■ ~,. :../.,■„,' :, . Captain W. H. Watkeys, K.N.E., of the British-India Company's steamer Uinta, was a passenger to 2\ T apier by the Te Anau on/ Saturday, en route to Masterton, on a visit to his friends in that district. Our Wellington correspondent states that Captain Bruce Hay, of Auckland, who went away with the Second Contingent, and has been in South Africa, for the past three years, is at present in Wellington. He leaves for Auckland this morning. Mr. Malvin Vanimau, the American photogiapher, who has been engaged by the New Zealand Tourist Department to photograph the scenic beauties of the colony, is now in Auckland. He will shortly leave for the Hot Lake region and Te Aroha, for the purpose of procuring views of these places. Mr. Arthur H. Nathan returned from Wellington by the Takapuna on - Saturday, accompanied by his sou, Mr. Louis N. Nathan, wh<) arrived by tbe s.s. Athenic from London last week. Mr. Louis Nathan has been in England for some years past, gaining business experience, and returns to Auckland to enter tin- warehouse of his father. Mrs. Harold Lilley, of Sidney House, Toowong (Queensland), recently decided to adopt the stage as a profession, and has secured an engagement with Mr. Frank Thornton. Mrs. Lilley is a daughter of Mr. Thomas Finney, one of the -known of the commercial men of Queensland, and the daugh-ter-in-law of the late Sir Charles Lilley, who was for many years Chief Justice of that State. » A 'pari j of English and American tourists, including" Mr. and Mrs. Wand, of Leicester. England; Mr. Weber, of Leipsic, a German journalist and Mr. Schroeder, arrived in Auckland by the Hauroto. They left San Francisco by the Sierra, and broke their journey at Samoa. The whole party intend to go through the Hot Lake region, via Ta-upo, to Wauganui. Messrs. Weber and v Schroeder intend to canoe down the Wauganui. The former is the representative of a Herman illustrated paper, and will secure ''paoto/grfcpis lor reproduction in his journaL