PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13489, 16 May 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

•The Rev. Mr. Evans went South yester- . day by the Rotoiti. , Mr. J. Prouse, the well-known vocalist, returned South by the Rotoiti yesterday. Detective Miller was a passenger to Fiji by the Talune" yesterday, en rout? to Honolulu. Mr. A. D. Riley returned Ito Wellington yesterday from. a visit to Australia by the Moeraki. Mr. W. C. Buchanan, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Moeraki. ' . ; The Hon. 0. Louisson.'who has been on a visit to Australia, returned to Wellington from Sydney yesterday by the Moeraki. • | Mr. and Mrs. C. A: Wells, of Whitianga, left for a trip to the Islands by the s.s. Taltmo yesterday;. l'\]■■■ -.[". M *- " , Mr. F. Kearsley came up from the South ■ yesterday, after having attended the annual! communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge at Invercargill. The Very Rev. Father Lewis, S.M., of Wellington, underwent a serious operation ■» yesterday; and is reported to be progressing as well as can be expected. ,;.-,/ i Inspector* Kiely, who has been appointed to tho new police district, with its head-! quarters at the Thames, arrived in Auck-j .■■< land from W anamu yesterday. ' *:: Mr. ; JThos.. .Aldridge, staiionmaster ' .at Balcintha; "has received notice' ■<of f his promotion to Frankton. He leaves at the end of the week' to take up his new duties. ...'-.-■■ The Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. J. D. Ritchie) will leave for the North next Monday to attend the winter show of -the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Mr. . Hewitt, son of Captain, Hewitt, of Palmerston North, arrived at J Wellington / yesterday from India, ;on furlough. Mr. , Hewitt went out to South Africa with New Zealand's Fourth Contingent, and at the end' of his servico there went to India to fill a position in the Remount Department. i ,-.!. j _ ' ; j Mr. J. W. Shackelford, who/has been' connected with the 4 street Methodist -}■■ Church for some years past, and who is | 1 about to leave for England, was presented .with a handsome travelling bag by the. members of the church last night, in recognition of his services to the church. "At His" Majesty's Tneatr©; a flashlight j photo, is to be taken to-night, when Mr.!. Andrew Mack will be made the recipient! of a handsome souvenir, by a "number of prominent Irish i citizens., The Mayor of ,; Auckland will % make the presentation; on the stage, between the second and thirdacts. ! ■■■■•■ \ ■-.•'■:■■ ■ ~~—T" I Brother W. J.'Napier was presented at a] gathering of Devon port Foresters on Tuesday ; evening; ; with a Past Ranger's regalia"; aladV a" picture, emblematicalof ; Forestry, :by j 1 - the brethren of Court A.0.F., as| a mark of their ap'preciatio*' of his; efforts in tho interests of the order. ;/' I ■ -. __—t. ■■■ An interesting visitor to Rotorua at present is. Surgeon-Major Daniel Robert Thompson, CLE., M-D.j M.R.C.S., L.M., formerly ■ surgeon of First 1 District Madras . Presidency, and medical inspector of immigrants in Madras, .now retired and settled in Tasmania. Dr. Thompson, who is! in his 75th year, is a halo, hearty man ■ still, j and more active than many much younger men. ■ - News has ' been received from Ophirj (says a Dunedin Press Association tele-1 gram 'of vesterday's date) of the death of -.-'■ Dr. ; Bauchbp, who had ; been suffering for a week from a severe attack of inflamma- i tion ;of the lungs. Deceased was a native of Port Chalmers. ;; Ho had practised .at ■*= Ophir for 18 months. Twelve months ago he married, but had the misfortune to lose his wife four months after marriage. The funeral of the late Captain Charles Spooner, of Epsom, took, place yesterday at Purewa, 1 4 ; ( There. was ; a ~ : , very large atten.-. dance relatives arid• friends. Captain Spoorier was one of tho old-time shipping masters saflmgVbut,\or/Auc(kland ,' having ; charge of the old 4 Atlanta" and Orpheus schooners. /■ Retiring from the sea a good many ; years ago, Captain Spooner entered the employ 'of the late Mr. Samuel Jagger, of the Captain Cook Brewery, where he remained i until I '. the business was taken over by Messrs. Hancock arid Co. The deceased was highly esteemed, and his relatives have the cordial sympathy, of many friends in Auckland and elsewhere.