PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12545, 12 April 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Db. Makciix was a passenger to Wellington by the Tafcapana last evening. ~ - Sir' Joseph Ward left Wellington for Lyt- £•••>' telton last night. Miss 0. G. Ireland leaves for Sydney by the mail steamer Sonoma this morning, fe;- .* Mr. G. W. S. Patterson leaves for Sydney Vi; i by the mail steamer Sonoma this morning. Ijttlf! * Mr. H. L. Mitchell, in response to a requisition, will stand for the Hokitika MayorM-. alty. ■. / The Hon. H. L. Saunders, of West. Australia, left for Sydney by the WestraJia last evening. ' - ■"■ ■■ -T Mr. Alex. McDougall. of Wellington, has iM/been appointed commercial manager of State collieries. The Rev. J. and Mrs. Fussell leave for Sydney by the mail steamer Sonoma this morning. ■ Mr. A. Haana is a passenger to Sydney by the mail steamer Sonoma, which leaves this morning. • KySf- Sir. E. D. Benjamin leaves for the United States and Europe by . the mail steamer Sonoma on the 29th inst. - r '<>, Dr. Ferguson, the new housp physician for the Auckland Hospital, arrived from Sydney s§Jvt by the Zealandia yesterday. "The Rev. J. T. Pinfold, who is going on a holiday trip to the Old Country, preached his .farewell' sermon at Hamilton. on Simuay. , Captain Thomas Braidwood. with Mrs. ■ Braidwood and family, left by the Takapuna for Wellington yesterday, en route for Scotland. ■ ■ ■ ■; . w-/i v iMr. J. Coom, chief engineer of working railways, is about to leave for America and Europe, partly on Departmental business and partlv on pleasure. Colonel Lauterbach, of the German army, i who has been touring New Zealand, leaves ' i for Sydney by the mail steamer Sonoma this i ' morning, en route for Europe, t A Press Association telegram from ChristJtr church, states that Mr. C. N. Gray, a mem- • ber of the City Council, lias been nominated -V- for the Mayoralty of Christchurch. fVOp :. Sergeant Tanner, of the Coromandel Dis- | trict High School cadets, has won the education district prize medal. 1903, for the AuckJ||§§ land district, with a score of 70 points. Yesterday Commander Foote, of H.M.s. Psyche, returned the call made to his vessel on* Saturday by the Mayor (the Hon. E. Mitchelson) and town clerk {Mr. H. W. Wilson). Mr. R. Cavill, the champion swimmer, was . a passenger to Sydney by the Westralia last evening. Mr. Cavill will probably go to the fiftSt: Louis Exposition, and on his return will revisit New Zealand. r' The Hon. A. Baldey. M.L.C., has decided to become a resident of Wellington. He has been entertained by his old friends, and neighbours on leaving Ryal Bush, Southland, where he had been a resident for many years. Inquiries made at the Central Hotel last evening show that. Mr. Rolleston, the proJ prietor, who is at Woodside hospital, is in a very serious condition. There were numerous callers at the hot-el, awl a great many in..quiries* made as to Mr. Rolleston's condition I during the day. Mr. J. C. Malfroy, of Hokitika, who left \\ * yesterday for a seven months' trip to Europe ' and America, was entertained on Saturday ' night by a number of representative citizens, who assembled to wish him "bon voyage." His employees presented him with an illumii/'v" nated address. Mr. A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., for Masterton, intends tc make a holiday visit to Australia before Parliament meets. It will be the first V ":holiday trip Mr. Hogg has taken for 15 years, • and i f is the intention of the Master-ton people to present, a pur, of sovereigns to him before his departure. T„•' '.'A-Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that the Rev. P. W. Fairclougli. l f - Methodist minister, who is being transferred to Wellington, was given a farewell social at '} f Dnnedin Inst night, when he was presented with a purse of sovereigns, a gold pencil case, and a framed photo, of Sister Olive's class. Amongst- the passengers by the Rimutaka. which arrived at Wellington last night, was v , the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. founder and director of the National Society for the Pre- - vention of Cruelty to Children. Leicester Square, don. He was from 186?! to 1865 ' a Congregational minister, and is the author - ' cof '"Hie Gaol Cradle: Who Rocks It?" "A Pica for the Abolition of Juvenile Punish-' ■ ments," and "Sunday Evening With My ! • Children." - He is now taking the round trip in tie Rimutaka fax the benefit of bis health.