PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12240, 8 April 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. T. E. Donne, of the Tourist Department, is at present on a visit to Hanmer. Captain George Crawshaw proceeds South to-day to assume command of the s.s. Mapourika. Mr. Bedford, M.H.R. (Dunedin) will not accompany the Parliamentary party on the Island excursion trip. Mrs. W. A. dimming, and her two daughters, left for Australia by the Waikare on Monday night. Mr. Hugo Friedlander, upon his return from Europe, is to be accorded a public welcome by the residents of Ashburton. At a public meeting at_ Wangamii last night, Mr. James Crichton, lion, conductor o £ the Garrison Band, was presented by the citizens with an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns, in recognition of his services to the band. Miss Sarah Campbell, youngest daughter of Captain A. Campbell, of the barque Clan MacLeod, was married vesterda.v to Mr. A. H. Brabant, son of Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M. A number of the vessels in the harbour were gaily decorated with bunting in honour of the occasion. The Rev. R. A. Cook and Cyril Bavin, missionaries in connection with the Methodist Church, the latter a son of the Rev. Rainsford Bavin, of Newcastle, the chairman of the Methodist Conference, left Sydney by the Birksgate for Fiji, the former for Levuka and the latter to Lautoka. The Coromandel Hospital Board has appointed Miss Street, of Auckland, to tin position of matron at the hospital. She is to take up her duties on the 13th hist., up till which date the Sisters of Mercy will continue to carry on the nursing. The Board have not up to the present made any other appointments to the nursing staff. The Rev. Tlios. Eykyn, who ' has been acting-vicar at Holv Trinity Church, Devonport, for the last 12 months, concluded his labours on Sunday last. Deep regret is felt in the borough at the reverend gentleman's departure, more especially amongst the young people, with whom, he hoc always been a favourite and very influential for good. Mr. Eykyn speaks in the highest terms of the courtesy and generous treatment he has met with amongst all classes in Devonport. Aucklanders will be pleased to hear of the welfare of Mr. Harry J. Syms, son of Mr. H. J. Syms, of the Epsom' Hotel. Mr. Syms left Auckland about 13 years ago, and after a short residence in . Australia, went to the United States, where he entered into journalism, and was successful in that capacity. He was made captain in an Idaho regiment, and fought in the Manila campaign. He then returned to Idaho, and has been elected registrar of lands in Boise city, the capital of Idaho. A presentation was made at the Police Barracks last evening to Sergeant C. W. Hendry, who has been transferred to Wellington. In presenting Sergeant Hendry with a case of silver-mounted pipes, suitably inscribed, Detective Henderson referred to the esteem in which Sergeant Hendry was held by the junior members of the force, to whom he had always lent valuable assistance, and given encouraging advice. Sergeant Hendry returned thanks. A social evening followed, during which vocal items were given by Constables Moriarity, Ramsay, Hollis, Benseman, and Murphy. The councillors and officials of the Borough of Grey Lynn assembled at the residence of Mr. R. T. Warnock, Mayor of Grey Lynn, on Monday evening, in order to make a presentation to him upon his retirement from office. Mr. Donald, as senior councillor, introduced the subject, and said they had to do honour to their worthy Mayor on the occasion of his retirement from the Mayoral chair. The time and attention Mr. Warnock had given to the interests of the borough could not be lightly passed over, and it would be difficult to dissociate the borough of Grey Lynn from his name. Messrs. J. Farrelf, Brinsden, Foster, / and McMaster also spoke in eulogistic terms. Mr. Donald then, on behalf of the councillors and officials, presented to the Mayor a handsome silver tea and coffee service of live •pieces, artistically chased, each having engraved on its the initials of the Mayor. The silver hot water kettle bore the following inscription : 7-" Presented to Mr. R. T. Warnock, J.P., Mayor of Grey Lynn, by the members and officers of the Borough Council, on his retirement from the Mayoral chair, April 29, 1903." Mr. Warnock, in returning thanks, spoke briefly of the progress of the borough. The handsome present they had given him would be a continual reminder of the many pleasant evenings he had spent with the Council. . An hour, was spent sociably before the gathering dispersed. •