PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13191, 31 May 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

•A*. C. Waianutt has been elected chairman '»f the Rotorua Town Council. JudgeS«th-Smith'a*d'.Mrs. Seth-Smith' loft Napier for Auckland by tho Tarawera yesterday. . ■ Mr, J. F. Doherty, of Morrinsville, has >/:•?/■ been appointed to the Primitive Methodist Church, New Plymouth. >i Dr. W. H. Horton has been appointed public,vaccinal ov for the district' of Tokaloka, Northern Wairoa. ' # Mr. R. Leech, late of tho Union Steam Ship Compnv's service, has been appointed '"' assistant harbourmaster at Westport. The Boa Kathleen Plunket, who has •■ '■■"''' been.on a visit to Colombo, returned to ■-V Wellington yesterday by the Moeraki. Mr.. Taipari, .chief, of .the Ngaiterangi tribe, leaves TauraDga for -Wellington i shortly, business connected with native .y iffairs. ..... ; ,Dr. C. P.>Knight, who has been to Melbourne University jubilee, celebrationis, returned to Wellington from Sydney yes- ;~. terday morning •by the Moeraki. -Mr. Frederick Harvey was-yesterday admitted by Mr. Justice Edwards as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of , New Zealand, ©a' tie application ol M'r. J. It. Reed. . ' •Dr. .-Mason, chief health officer. for the oolony. arrived in Auckland from the South yesterday forenoon. His'visit is mainly on matters 'connected with the consumptive • sanatorium at Cambridge. 'The 1. a. Jajt..-.- Cjuc-U (Mini.der Joe ''.' , ."N-T-. '-r. i.?air: a-i: ; '*.■ 'do:. Janes SI--iv •' •c»o%ViUi (Mini.'S*i'r I ■>■<* 'Axucf- --nd Justice; :.-- •.-.-.■,. rived from Wtii ; . ;> jesterday mom i ■', j awl prodded t once '. • She ,: kato. i , A': Napier. Press Association telegram! .f'C; : • states : t-hat .'he Borough Council has se■'j ••:■:.,- lecCod M'-. .hunc- Archer, of Auckland, for • the• posifit;:.. -,'. borough overs* 'i >.v.d ■ "-mitary oulveyor. : i''ere were 3v: .•■ppl'-.ants - it tan s!l parts-of th-?.-colony. Mi. ai.d Mrs. W. H. S. Moorhcus of Wellington, who have beeM on an exten- •' sive tour, returned to Wellington by (he <■';■ ' Moeraki yesterday morning, Amongst the ■ : places were the Sandwich Islands, ~'('• Ganad"., the United States, Mexico, Great Britain, Europe, Egypt, China, Japan, and the Philippines. The tour occupied t . 14 months. j ■: The Ret. C. Doley, a'returned missionary from New Britain, is now visiting Wellington, : as the special deputation for the Australasian Methodist Foreign Mis- ■ sion Society. This, society is doing work on a 'large scale in the South Sea Islands, at Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, New Britain, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The , ' ' deputation is spending three months in New Zealand, journeying from Invercargill to.Auckland, and calling at the chief centres, i ' '. •' -...■•• J i '■■'-." ■ i ' At a recent meeting of the Dunedin Council .f the Churches a .communication was read from the secretary of the Australian

Evangelistic Campaign, stating that Gipsy Smith, the celebrated evangelist, was com- ,• ingto the colonies, and had been requested !. ' , to come a little earlier than the time ai- ■ ' ranged for (April, 1907*, .so that- he could \4 : \. '■'• taktt Hew.Zealand, especially Christfhaich, .' . on his way. No vfcivl had been received ■ from Dr. Dawson. The Council decided that.. Marchwafi as, early as Gipsy t Smith should be.herei ". " " ■"•' " ' '* fft";?'&v ;: ; / ■''->• - ——— t - k . 'Professor ' Wassilieff, professor of hisi|g;Sjftory at the University of Dorpat, Russia, is 'at, present on a visit to Wellington. fef Professor Wassilieff took part in the Melbourne University jubilee celebrations, at - which lie represented the University of St. '. .".Petersburg ; and the Women's Pedagogic ;> , Institute of St. 'Petersburg, in addition te „" v . ■ his own University. He will remain in ■";. Wellington, for a few days, and will then. , go on k» Auckland, possibly by way of the ~' -. Wangai.ui River. From Auckland he will take steamer to Tahiti, his homeward - Mit* being through the South Sea. The Mayor olParnell (Mr. G. W. Basley), on .behalf'of Parnell residents, made a pre- - sentation yesterdav to Mrs. Spellman, wife of JGonstable'Spelfmah, who' is leaving for . R'-lfTnia to-day. as the rules of the service' , Trill not allow presentations to be made- to or.i«itsi?«?s. Mrs. Spellman was asked to receive p. "f>l<i albert. and a purse of sovereigns. The Mayor referred i* most oompliC ' mentary term?,, to Constable -Spellman' s tact\.\r - ful and intelligent serric* in Parnell, and I- Messrs. J. Fit* (ex Mayor),-' J. R. London, lIP. Fitt, ar.d Briggs also made eulogistic speeches. The Mayor attributed Parnell's ;,- freedom from crime-t-y'th©; vigilance and general intelligence of' the "i>blicemen stationed in the district.