PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12608, 24 June 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

* 1 Mlt. E. GrSBAKD, official assignee, returned , from his visit to Tftranaki yesterday. i Colonel Hume, • inspector of prisons, \ was i a jassenger from Sew Plymouth by the i VBot&iti-yesterday. ,] Mr. G. Xrtmfeld returned by the Han- ■■' Mttoj from Tonga, yesterday, after a short ' vrait to the Islands. » Sigaor Bragato, the Government viticul- j -'tnrist, was a passenger from New Ply- < ,'i month by the Rotoiti yesterday.' , J Mr. E. K. .Mulgan, M.A., inspector of , schools,.returned to Auckland from New. \ Plymouth yesterdav by the Rotoiti. 7 "';- ' Mr. A. E. Harding, s MH.R. for Kai- i para, arrived in .towp yesterday, and will ;l lie at the Royal Hotel till Sunday, when * he leaves for Wellington. ; • Major - Moore, * recently in command .of - • {be < New Zealand Permanent Forces, will ; Cleave".Wellington for England to-day,y to . rejoin the Royal Artillery. " ''■ . ." Miss (Dr.) Hodge, of Sydney,' who has been touring- the Islands "in the London ■\ Missionary Society's- steamer John Wil- * liams, was a*passenger from Tonga by the Hauroto yesterday. . Lieutenant - George Burskitn was a pas-; ;* . senger. from Capetown, by '• the Kaikoura t yesterday. v - Lieutenant Burslem vis well > ; known in Auckland, having; taken part in t the Maori wars at Waikato and on the East Coast. -' ■ . ■ . „.:,- - '■ J Mr. H. C. Brewer, Registrar of the Su- t preme Court, has been ill since Monday last, ' lot is now recovering, and is expected to 3 resume his duties on Monday next. In the * .meantime Mr. Thomas is carrying out the ( duties of the office. '/ ■■'.■/,:' *■---" f j Mr. Ronald Luke, son of Mr. 0. M. \ Luke, of Wellington, has entered the establishment of the Electric Power Company at I Wolverhampton, England ; Mr. Luke left t Wellington in February last, and intends I to study electrioal engineering. ' 1 ■ The appointments r of! Mr,, H. G. Seth- « Smith, as deputy for the Chief Judge of the * Native Land Court, and Mr, Jackson Pal- ', mer, as judge of the Native Land and Appeal Courts, _ are gazetted. Mr. and Mrs. -SethSoitb. arrived in Auckland from Wanganui v 'yesterday. ■■,' J. - • *■' ■< si • Miss Wignall, who has been -assistant 6 j matron of the Auckland gaol for 'the' past n four years, has been promoted to the matron- e ahip of the Wellington gaol, and leaves to- °, day by the Rotoiti to take, up "her' new * duties. The officers of the Mount Eden e prison made a presentation to her of a ft , handsome dressing-case on Wednesday night, 1 in appreciation of her work. "Captain Jackson Barry, when retaining ° from f.he residence of Sir A. J. Cad man „ UastrWJflk; met with an accident, owing to © ,the bad . state of the " roads. His buggy was upset, .and the captain, who i 3 now 86 « years of age, . was thrown out upon his n head. The .wonderful old pioseer seem? to n have recovered as easily and quickly as [if 2! he were a youth, and is now out again. He has just sent off a large consignment p of his books by the Government steamer si Hinemoa A to Weston. I*i 1■ " ■