PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12176, 23 January 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■■ »,. • . .'::,;..>:■■:■■■'■■ ■•' '■- " Mr. and Mas. G. R. BtoojmELD are passengers from Sydney by. the mail steamer Sierra, which arrives to-day. • Miss J. H. Hume has .received the appointment of assistant to the Waihi District High- School, ; Captain R. Todd, New Zealand superintendent for the Tyser line, was a passenger from Napier yesterday by the Te Anau. Major Whitney, of the Colonial Ammunition Company, and Miss Whitney, are passengers by the mail steamer Sierra, which is due from Sydney this morning. " > General W. P. La louche, of the Indian - Staff Corps, who. is at present cm a visit to Wellington, has been in the colony on several occasions previously. He has made several visits from India for the purpose of enjoying the season's fishing in our streams. Mr. L. B. H. Harris, an engineer, who is leaving the employ of Messrs. Geo. <Fraser and' Sons, in order to take up an . appointment in Philadelphia, U.S.A., was presented last evening by his colleagues in .'" 'Auckland with a complete'smoker's outfit and rule. ' < " A party consisting of Sir John Downer, Lady Downer, Ron. E. T. Derham (Acting-Postmaster-General of Victoria) and Dr. Walsh, is at present touring in the Southern ,'•''Lakes district. They will visit Wellington shortly, afterwards proceeding to the Wanganui River and Rotorua, and , leaving 'Auckland on February 16 for Sydney. Captain W. Jackson Barry attained his '84th birthday on Sunday last, he having been born at Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, on 'January 18, 1819, a few months before the birth of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. He left home as a boy of 10 with Sir John •Alcock, ■ in the ship Rover, on June 28, 1828, 4 arriving in Sydney early in 1829. , His • life and adventures are fully told in his , .'/book oh the Australasian colonies, which is now,, in the press, and will, shortly be .published, i Unfortunately-the captain was oenfined to his bed at Wellington on his P birthday, he having been suffering recently birthday, he having been suffering recently ,■ from a, prevalent complaint, from, which he is; but slowly, recovering. A number of his friends J and 1 well-wishers visited him and '. tyfidM him -a- speedy recovery. . 1- .. - . ......