PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12249, 20 April 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

.Me. P. A. Hadley returned from Sydney by the Waikare last night. Mr. Lacey, late of the Ovalau, is now chief officer of the Mararoa. Viscount Borrington leaves on a visit to Fiji by the Moura oil' Wednesday. Mrs. and Miss Moss Davis returned from Wellington on Saturday by the Ngapuhi. Mr. Justice Cooper was a passenger from New Plymouth by the Takapima yesterday. Sir Edward and Lady Gibbes were passengers from New Plymouth by the Ngapuhi on Saturday. The Hon. J. Carroll was booked to leave Gisborne for Napier last night, proceeding to Auckland via New Plymouth. f Surgeon-Captain F. W. King, who has been at Wellington attending the sittings of the Imperial Pensions Board, returned yesterday by the Takapuna. Mr. G. L. Shaw, who has been connected •with "the" press of the colony for some years as reporter, etc., died in the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday from pneumonia. Mr. Thomas Ryan, once a London cabdriver, and now an enthusiastic temperance worker, arrived in Wellington the other day by the Turaldna. He is travelling in search of health. " ' . Mr. A. B. Paterson (" The Banjo '), editor of the Sydney Evening News, was married recently to Miss Alice Walker, second daughter of the late Mr. W. H. Walker, of Tenterfield station. New South Wales. Messrs. W. B. Robinson/ financial editor of the Melbourne Age, and J. H. and O. Syme, sons of Mr. David Syme. proprietor of the Age, left Wellington for Sydney by the Monowai on Saturday evening. Mr. D. T. Mcintosh, district engineer for railways at Wanganui, is going to the Old Country for a six months' trip. Before leaving Wanganui he was the recipient of a presentation, made by the Mayor on behalf of subscribers. Mr. Henry Roff, bush manager for the Southland Sawmilling Company, and Mrs. Roff, on the occasion of their departure from Orepuk: for the North Island, were visited by a surprise party of the employees, on Good Friday night, and presented with a marble .' clock as a token of esteem. Mr. Roff is settling at Masterton, where he has got an important post. Several pretty weddings have taken place in Cambridge lately, those united being Miss Veale and Mr. J. J. Collis, both of Cambridge West, whose' marriage took place last week:' Miss Roberts, of Cambridge, and Mr. Fearnley, of Auckland. on Wednesday last; Miss Hutchens, of Cambridge, and Mr. Tver, of Auckland, on the same day: also Miss Nettie Scott arid Mr. . Murdoch Anderson. Mr. P. S. Cassidy. whose death has occurred at Christchurch, was manager of the New Zealand Times m 1896. Mr. Cassidy, '.who was a native of Donegal, started in life as a reporter on the New York World. He later on joined the staff of the New^ York City Press Association, and afterwards became city editor of the New York Mercury. He was one of those who organised the New York Press Club. Mr. Hugh Cassidy, of Canterbury, well known as the proprietor i of the Canterbury West Coast line of coaches, is a brother of deceased.