PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

*Its Excellency the Governor lias return■■ed,to.Wellington from the South. . ,s ; .Captain A._ D. Chrihp has transferred ' from the ILuiroto lb the Manapouri. Captain Gregory, late of the Squall, takes the Bauroto south. ' The Dairy Commissioner (Mr. Ouddieju .who is at present in Wellington, will attend the Agricultural .and Pastoral Show in Auck- ;'■'•■•• land next week. ■ ■■■' Mr; E. Dane, of Onehunga, vice-president of the district, branch of the" H.A.C.B. Society, is at present dangerously ill sufferI; ing from appendicitis. ~.:,:',. :' .'. , Major Long left Wellington on Saturday for Sydney where he will* carry on his investigations into the meat freezing estab:.v lishments oh behalf of the War Office. ' : • The Very Rev. Father .Lewis, S.M., has been in very poor health for some time, and is now in a private hospital at, Wellington .:■■.■■■, awaiting an operation of a serious nature. Owing to the llarawa having to return to port yesterday the Hons. J. A. Millar and Jas. .McGowan. came on to Auckland, but will leave this morning for Kcur, Plymouth > by the Takapuna, •'■'/. The Hon. T. W. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, was entertained at a banquet by the citizens last, night, in order to mark ■v their appreciation,of-, his 'work in the civic : ; government of the city during the past two years. , - ■■""■*■.• Mr. Arthur J. Rattray, son of the late Mr. Jas. Rattray, •of Melbourne, was marTied in Wellington on Saturday, to Miss Alice May Kirkcaldio, eldest daughter; of Mr. John Ivirkcaldie, of Wellington. The I ceremony was performed by the Rev. James Paterson. . ' ■. .;.7.-'- ; . * - ' A movement is on foot among leading "Irish residents in Auckland to mako a presentation to Mr. Andrew Mack, as a mark, g: ; of their appreciation of his faithful studies' of Irishmen 'and Irish life in contra-distinc-tion to the burlesque, of such subjects which |v one so often sees and which constitute a real ■ injustice to Ireland. •. • Mi'. H. X. Southwell, a well-known Syd- i ney concert manager, arrived by the Waikare j ; to i' arrange a ; concert tour for Mr. Andrew Black and Mr. Leopold Premyslav. The r') latter is a Polish artist, and it is stilted that no violinist lias ever before created such excitement" in Sydney as this young player has I done. Concerts will be given in Auckland j early in July. . " • • '.' '-A ! The Rev. Alexander Shepherd, one of , the earliest Presbyterian ministers in the j province • of Hawke's Bay, * died at • Napier i last evening, at the age of 82. He arrived In' Now Zealand : n 1865, and • was soon afterwards inducted to the church at Wai- . ' pukurau, at which place he became : the first'clerk of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery. He afterwards filled for many- years the .position. pastor of the Havelock Pres- «: byterian Church. He leaves a widow and V one daughter. 'Mr. Gustavo Reimer, manager of the I general ' agency in. Sydney of the German- I I Australian, Steamship Company, who ar- '', rived in New Zealand last month; is ' at ■ present in Wellington on ; business connected with his company. Since his arrival ,in the colony he has visited several ports I of the North Island, and he will leave for ; . the South in the. course of a few days en ' route for Sydney: The company /which '..■ Mr. Reimer represents has its headquarters in Hamburg, and is running about' 30 large cargo steamers between , the Continent of Europe and Australia. ■•-"■".