PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13048, 13 December 1905, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Very Rev. Father Hays left by the Manuka tor Napier last night. Mr.' J. T. Julian was a passenger to Gis- ■ borne last night by the Manuka. Miss Shirley Baker was a passenger for Tonga by the* Hauroto yesterday. The Revs.' Lamond, Robertson, and Grubb arrived from Whangarci last night ; by the Ngapuhi. Mrs. Harrison Lee, the temperance lee- , turer, leaves for Sydney by the mail steamer Sierra to-night. ; - - '-. Mr. Macintosh, late first-assistant engineer of the Sonoma, has been appointed ;*;;:" chief engineer of the Sierra. Mr. F. Mander, M.H.R. for Marsden, and Mrs. Mander, arrived from Whaugarei oy the Ngapuhi hist night. Tho Hons. T. R. Ward and S. L. Lazarus, of Fiji, were passengers to Auckland from Suva by the Navua yesterday. Mr. J. D. Perritt, the well-known artist, has returned to Auckland, after a very successful visit to Sydney and Brisbane. Dr. F. W Coding, United States ConsulGeneral for New South Wales and Queensland, arrived by the Sierra yesterday, en route to Sydney. Mr. Harold L. Nathan, son of Mr. N. , Alfred Nathan, returned from England with Mr. and Mrs. Nathan and other members of the family, on Monday last. Father Curran, of lowa, U.S.A., arrived yesterdav bv the Sierra on a visit to New Zealand." Sydney, and Melbourne. Father Curran is staying at. the Grand Hotel. Air. M. F. Carey, chief electrical engineer of the Auckland Electric Tramways Com- : pany, returned by the Sierra, yesterday, from a visit to England, Canada, and the United States. Captain H. Cashman, late chief officer of the Navua," has been, appointed to the command of the Rosamond, Mr. Robinson, late of the Tarawera, going over to the Navua as chief officer. Mr. R. H. Nolan, of Hawera, and Mr. V. H. Nolan, who have been on a visit to Europe and the United States, were passengers from San Francisco by the mail steamer Sierra yesterday. A cable has reached Auckland announcing that Mr. Richard Powell Cooper, head of -firm of" Wm. Cooper and • • Nephews, Berkharnsted, Efjgl-"Td, has been created a baronet. Lieutenant Carpenter, adjutant of the . Auckland militarv district staff, returned from Whangarei by the Ngapuhi last night, where he has been on a visit of inspection . of the Hikurangi Rifles. Mr. P. R. Sargood, of Dunedin, with Mrs. Sargood and their three children, who have been oh-¥"visit to Europe and the United States, relumed to Auckland by the mail steamer Sierra yesterday. Sir J. Henniker-Heaton, M.P. foi Canterbury (England), left Suva on December 4 in the'R.M.s. Miowera, en route for Van- j couver and London. Since he has been at sea his promotion to knighthood has been announced. Mr. H. W. Seton Karr, the well-known explorer and: "big game" authority, is at. present in Auckland, and is staying at the Central Hotel, Mr. Seton Karr is making a torn of the colony, and has been greatly impressed with all he has seen of its sporting possibilities...^ 4 ; ; :,:: : ■- : :'■?',''; '■'■.•: . Mr. Hudson-Berkeley, one of the proprietors of the Newcastle Morning ; Herald,, '." 'of Newcastle, New South Wales, arrived by the Sierra from San Francisco yesterday, en route to Sydnev. Mr. Berkeley has been on a pleasure trip through the Continent of Europe and the British Isles. He was astonished ;to : find' New Zealanders almost, - wherever he went.' h : ff.t}'^- :: S'.'^' : V--':*.-">•'■ ••;'-"•-.".•■■■-'■-. '";••■ ■■''.';".." ■ '■ '-. <