PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12523, 16 March 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

; 7 """ ■; V, —: • •. •. v. j? Ma. J. J. Craig has returned fhjm' life '}.ki : visit to Sydney." *•£:-. ■";■.-.. „i . :■•.: '•: ;>,- Captain Duder, harbourmaster, has been granted leave of absence. v : Br. Williams has been appointed honorary consulting surgeon' to the Auckland Hospital. :• ; , . : Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M., left for Napier by the Zealandia yesterday, to assume duty thare. - "■ Major Maxwell, of India; who is taking'.'ra f :! extended holiday, leaves: for • Rotorua", this . morning,. . . ; Mr. James Trounson, of the Northern Wairoa, leaves Auckland shortly on a tour round the world, : s ' '• 11 Colonel Pitt, Attorney-General, is to make .his first official inspection or the asylums of I; : the colony next month. -i ' ' he Rev. R.L. Walker, M.A., of St. - James' Church, Is the president-elect of the . Presbyterian - City Mission for the ensuing v•/ ■ year. -''V-* - ' ■ , .: Dr. ■ Rabat, of Onehuaga, left yesterday _ .by the s.s. Rarawa for , Wellington/ Dr.'Pabst expects to return at the end of - the week. Mr. J. O'Keei®, the well-known sheep-; ; farmer, : of Martinborough, left ; Wellington . , for Sydney last Saturday, en route ,to Europe. : i"'--y ' ;) v r ; r",. Sir John See< Premier of New South Wales, will arrive at Onehunga from New Plymouth . this morning, accompanied by his son and daughter. .. " / , Mr. William Ranstead, of Hamilton, leaves for Fiji on Tuesday next, to join the Canadian mail steamer for Vancouver, en route oV J for Europe..•!,» ■. Mr. James H. .. Ooates, general manager of the National Bank, leaves on a trip to England by the Whit© Star liner Atheiiic on the 28th prox. . Mi*. W. Hi Phillips, Mayor of Waihi, has : had. another severe attack of illness, and his -; medical advisers have recommended perfect : : ' quietness for several days. . " , . ,j vr. ' ; Mr.' W. S.'LaTrohe, M.A., who has been . v appointed director of the Technical School, Wellington, will leav© for ; New Zealand by tho steamer Tongarir© on March. 24., : Mr. Quinnell, Government Veterinarian, ' who has been relieving at Waitara. will act as ; inspecting officer at ' the newly-erected freezing .wows at Taredra, near Tiwaru. ; :-Mrs. H. J. Millar, Of Johannesburg, who '*< has -been or* a long visit to Wellington, , leaves for South Africa on Saturday next, s?kv"i-- connecting with the Marathon \at Sydney on the 30th inst. " , . _ ■ • - Sir John See, Premier of Neiv South Wales, accompanied ,by his son and daughter, and his secretary, • left- Wellington by ,the Manawatu "train, en route for Auckland, ;;;; ;yisterday,. morning. ' .v : ;.- • Mr.; j. H. Owe'n. general manager ' of Messrs.. Sharland and Co., left Wellington - i- .for 'England .v yesterday. u Mr. .Oweii will ■ spend some time in America;, visiting the St. Louis Exhibition before going on to Eng- ,. ; 'land- ". , ... • , ' Mr. : Shaw, a prominent official of the Midland Railway Company, England, is at - present a visitor to New Zealand. : Ho ; » loaves 'Wellington for. Sydney oil his retiiru. / to the Old Country bj the Manuka on the 25th inst. * . Mr. J." W. Joynt, registrar of the New. /■.is Zealand University, leaves Wellington by the TaVapVttaMb^dfty,- and will join the San Francisco mail steamer at Auckland, en • y route, for England. ; He will be absent-from '"the colonv about five months. - \v M.. Alfred G. Wiggins, of -Staple Inn . Halt, London, who has been touring' the colony, leaves for Sydney bv the mail steamer Sierra next Monday. He returns ' to England by the German liner Gneisenau, sailing from Sydney on; the 2nd prox.Mr. Alfred Suter (son of Mr.- H. Suter, ' ■ late assistant curator of the Auckland .Museum), who is engineer at the Chelsea ; Sugar Works, has jus's successfully .passed . his examination for an extra first-class cer- . tificate of competency for land and sta- • tionarv engines. . .. r Mr.*H. J. Crowther, of. the audit.branch •of'the Customs Department, Wellington, * has been appointed collector of Customs at Westport, . Mr. Spence, collector at- Westport, is to act- at Christchurch in place of • - - Mr. Carter, who has been granted leave ■,of. absence. on -account of ill-health. At the last session of the New Zealand Senate, recently held in Wellington. Dr. V; . Bamford, of Auckland, was appointed examiner for the colony in New Zealand law and general lav/-, in the case of practitioners admitted elsewhere seeking admission to the legal profession of this colony. • The Anglican Bishop of Auckland * (Dr. Neligan), who is at present visiting the northem portion of his diocese, is being kept very busy from day to day. 'He is accompanied by Archdeacon Walsh and the Rev. H. A. Hawkins,' and has been most hospitably welcomed by both Maoris and Europeans." This being Dr. Neligan's first visit ■ ■to the extreme north of his diocese, the trip lias naturally proved deeply- interesting to him, and the manners and customs of the V' Maoris, largo numbers of whom have been presented for confirmation, have especially . engaged his attention. , • - j '