PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13490, 17 May 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. B. McNab, Minister for Lands,! left Wellington for the South last night. \ Judge Sim returned South yesterday by / the Rarawa. , Captain Symon left for New Plymouth yesterday by the Earawa. , Major Oakes was a passenger from the , South by the Moura yesterday. : ' Adjutant and Mrs. Melksham were passengers yesterday by the Rarawa to New .Plymouth, , Mr. !C. J. Liggihs, general traffic mana- , ■ ger at Dunedin for the Union S.S. Company, is at present on a visit to Auckland. ■ .''.'' '■■" 'ix-n 't' :/\ •■•!£•.'! z' • Mr. Bodle, manager of the local branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, returned from the South yesterday by the Rarawa. . A number of the officers of the squadron were present at a dance given by Mr. and , -Mrs. > .NV Alfred -Nathan at their residence, : 'Princes-street,'last'night'. V Mr. W. F. Massey, Leader of the Oppo- ' sition, arrived from New Plymouth yester- i day by the Rarawa. He was met at Onehunga by a number of friends. ■ Mr.". T: ■Ci-• ■ Schnackenberg, manager at ' .New Plymouth for Messrs. L. D. Nathan \ and Co., arrived by the Rarawa yesterday > to spend a short holiday in Auckland. ' < Vice-Admiral Fawkes was present at the , annual meeting of the St. John Ambulance . Society last night, at the Choral Hall, and '] presented the certificates and medallions to ] the. successful candidates. ~..; , On Wednesday, at the Waikino foundry, ! Mr. L. Snowling, who is severing his con- ; nection with the Waihi Gold Mining Com- < _ pany, was entertained by his fellow-workers, < and made the recipient of a presentation. :•■': ] * : Captain Cumming, harbourmaster at Gis- , borne, returned to that place yesterday . from Auckland, after having arranged for • the construction of a fine launch for harbour work, somewhat upon the lines of the ! Auckland Harbour Board's launch. ■ "' : ■ - '■ ~~"**■"' 1 It has been decided to appoint Mr. W. i G. Biddell, at New Plymouth, to act as second magistrate at -Wellington (says a Press Association telegram). Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, of Palmerston North, has been ' appointed to the Bench, "and takes Mr. Riddell's place in Taranaki. • i Mr. David E. Lindsay, well known as i mail agent on behalf of the New Zealand * Post Office between. New Zealand and San ! Francisco for several years, died on Wed- 1 r nesday, aged 47 (says a Wellington Press < Association telegram). i Deceased under- • went an operation for hernia 'a week ago, 1 and;was making an excellent recovery, < when heart trouble supervened. ': i Mr. W. J, Durie, executive secretary of the New South Wales Court at the Exhibi- ; tion at Ciristchurch, left for Sydney yester- , day. ; v He:,expressed the opinion that the ' Exhibition had been entirely successful as 1 an exposition of New, Zealand's wealth and , resources. 1" No one, he said, could speak ' ; too highly of the hospitality ;so generously • lavished on visitors -Sir John-Hall. " * Mr. R. R. Martin, organising secretary of the-New Zealand' Political Reform League, who has been' at work in Taranaki, ; on behalf of the successful candidate, Mr i : Okey,: returned ■'*' to Auckland yesterday ] ''. morning by the Rarawa.;; Mr. Martin will 1 proceed next week/to Huntly, Raglan, and i ICawhial to complete the organisation of i the Waikato electorate, after which he will i proceed South. ;: ' 1 Mr. L.' R. Phillipps, president of . the j Auckland provincial section of the New i ; Zealand Farmers' Union, is to be presented , by the members of the Helensville, Wood- '! hill, and Kaukapakapa branches of the union j with a handsomely illuminated address i prior to his departure on his proposed visit ] to Europe. At yesterday's t conference, ', " Mr. F. Dye, on behalf of the unions named, ] 'presented Mr. Phillipps with a copy of , the address, '■ and explained that there. u had '* notvbeM- time-'to -get"'tfie?'fflmhlnated ? ad- • .dress prepared for presentation at that ga- j He eulogised Mr. Phillipps' long t sind valuable services to the' union," and j the recipient suitably responded. . ' ] $■ : , .'-, ■ • ".; 1 the interval between the second < and third acts of the play " Arrah-na- ? Pogue l at-His Majesty's Theatrc'lasl; even- ! nig, an interesting ceremony took place on i the stage, the Mayor (Mr. A. M. Myers), on 1 .behalf of the Irish citizens of Auckland, ] presenting; Mr. Andrew Mack, the popular actor, with a' beautiful greenstone and silver i .-.■ casket. The casket, which is a fac-simile ' of the one presented to the Duke of Corn- ' ; wall : and : ' York (now ■ the ■ Prince of Wales), J bears on the top silver, plate, with the in- < "Presented to Andrew Mack by 1 the Irish.citizens- of Auckland/ May, -1907," i and on one side/is.another silver <?•- i ■; -op. /.which: is a view: of Waitemata '» Harbour, -with Rangitoto -in the- -ok- i ground.; The beautifully polished ' grew- < stone is mounted' on silver supports -if fein 1 : and shamrock leaves, and the whole sir nds :on a silver tray. Mr. Myers, in mat-tag the •; presentation, referred to ' Mr. * Mace's ■» work" in.'-'presenting the truer*. side . : of the i Irish -character, and in really revolutionising the stage r- Irishman. '■£"]la. returning j thanks Mr. Mack, who was received with 1 prolonged; applause, spoke of the most J hearty and cordial welcomes he had received ] throughout New Zealand, and delivered a ; humorous and characteristic speech on hi: - stage work. At the conclusion o* Iris re- ' marks he was accorded; :at the c»il of the ; Mayor, three hearty cheers, and cheers Wfie : a]so.given, for'the Mayor, "and. lastly, At Mr. ; Mack's request, for New Zealand; '// ;