PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12210, 4 March 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir G. M. O'Rorke was a passenger from New Plymouth by the Ngapuhi yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Binney were passengers to the South'by the Westralia yesterday, en route for Australia. • • 1 It;- is; not generally known that Mr. T. G. Macarthy, of-Wellington, is cousin to Justin Macarthy', M.P.,. historian, dramatist, ■■ and novelist. «- • "

' The Right Rev. ' Monsignor Maekay will be 5 administrator of the Dunedin diocese of ' the Roman Catholic ; Church . during the absence of s Bishop , Verdon in Australia in connection with the golden, jubilee of the Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney. . T - . . . j . ~ • The Hon. J. V. O'Loghlin, of South Australia, left Wellington last Friday for Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, . Canterbury, and' -Otago. . Mr.; O'Loghlin has been mostfavourably impressed by New; Zealand and the condition of - the people. ■ i " ' : v Last night a number of railway employees .assembled at the Onehunga railway office and presented Mr. Guy, .the stationmaster,. with a silver-mounted pipe,' a silvermounted matchbox, ; and : a pocket knife, on: the occasion of his transference to New

Plymouth. ; .y : Mr. - Thomas Riddle, second son of the Rev. 'J. P. Riddle, of Rakai'a, has been appointed by ' the Presbyterian Ohurch to take lip the work of the late Rev. T. Smaill, at the New Hebrides. Mr. Riddle took his literary course in New Zealand, and studied theology. at Edinburgh. He returned to the colony a few months ago. A' very pleasant ceremony took place at the rooms of the Rev. T. P. Eykyn, Devonport, when Mrs. Edward Wood was presented by the past and present pupils of Holy Trinity. Sunday-school with a handsome; pair of vases. Mrs. Wood has been teaching the, Bible class for over 20 years. A speech was read by Mr. A. J. Powley, on' behalf • of' the pupils. Music was indulged in, and a supper terminated a most enjoyable evening. ,