PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13494, 22 May 1907, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

•; TiE Rev. S. Spencer left for Gisborne by the Zealandia yesterday. • . "•/ Mr. A. P. Friend returned from the South yesterday by the Rarawa. / Mr. , and Mrs. E. Tollmach left for the South by the Rarawa yesterday. Dr. Mason, chief health officer, was a passenger from the South yesterday by the : Barawa. ' Mr. T. W.. Kirk came up from Wellington by the Rnrawa yesterday, in order to attend the Winter Show. • In yesterdav's issue it was stated that "Mr." J. C. Macky had left for.Sydney. It should have been Mrs. Macky. , Mr. C. R. Vickerman, of the Public Works Department, was a passenger by the Barawa for the South yesterday. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones (says a Wellington Press Association telegram) is reported to be gradually improving. in health. Mr. W. D. Snowball, Government veterinarian, and inspector of abattoirs, came up from Duneclin yesterday by the Rarawa. Mr. Mack Jost, who is in charge of Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World," arrived from : the South yesterday morning by the Baiawa. Mr. H. Palethovpe, Government fruit inspector in Wellington, was taken suddenly ill yesterday in the Customhouse Building, and had to be removed to, his home in the ambulance. , . '. At a. meeting of the City Guards, Dunedin, on Monday evening,. Sergeant-Major Willoughby, of Auckland Battalion; was elected junior lieutenant. Lioutenant Willoughby has had 14. years' military service. Mr. John George Ward, of Cabbage Bay, died at the Goromandel Hospital, on Sunday evening. Deceased was about 53 years of age, and had resided in the Cabbage Bay district for" 20 years. He leaves a widow and infant son. The funeral took place yesterday, a large number of Cabbage Bay and coastal settlers attending. Mr. Alfred Hill (conductor), Miss Arline Thackeray (violiniste), and Mr. r Ernest Jamicson (secretary), of the late Exhibition Orchestra, arrived at Wellington from the North- on Monday > night. Miss Thackeray has .been appointed violiniste to the Conservatoire of Music at Dunedin. • Mr. Hill goes j South for a short holiday, and Mr. Jamieson returns to Christchurch, where he has been appointed flautist to the Canterbury Con- j servatoire of Mus'c. - j The Hon. Lancelot Walker, M.L.C., died j at his residence at Four Peaks station, near Geraldine, on Sunday. He had been ailing j . during the past year, and on that account (says a Pre S3 Association message) was not ] in his place in Parliament last session. De- j ceased, who was 78 years of age," arrived in' \ Canterbury front England 'in 1856. He sat in the House of Representatives as member for Ak«i;roa and Ashley, and in 1855 was called -to the Legislative Council. A pretty wedding was solemnised in the Pitt-street Methodist Church on Wednesday, May 15, when Miss Alice B. Gladding, ;only daughter of Mr. L. W. Gladding, of Grey Lynn, was married to Mr. Laurence H. ; GosS, second son'; of the late Mr. Frederick H. Goss, of Manchester, England. The Rev. A. Luxford performed the ceremony. The-service was ,■: fully choral: Mr. Light, F.G.O..'presided at the organ,; and played the )'' Wedding March " as the . bridal party, were leaving. At the conclusion of. the. ceremony the guests, numbering between 80 and 90, adjourned to Buchanan's cafe, where a reception was given by the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs.} Goss subsequently ; left /for the Lake for a', short stay prior to their ; leaving for New "Plymouth, /en route to ! Wanganui, their future home. * ._ : The funeral of the late Mr. Charles Bishop, I of: Te : Arai, took place at the Waikaraka ; cemetery, Onehunga, =■ yesterday, ■■' when a large number .of ! friends attended. Mr. Bishop, who was 65 years of age, was born in Warwickshire, and arrived at Auck- ' land in 1862. * Soon after his arrival nhe joined the First Waikato Militia, /and went ; through/the Waikato war. At the end of . the campaign he married, and settled down ; atjWaipu for a few years. /; Subsequently he embarked; in;the hotel ) business at :Whanga-' rei and Mangawai, finally shifting, to- Te Aral in 1891. For a considerable time he suffered from an internal trouble, for .which he was operated upon, last Thursday by Dr. Gore ■ Gillon." Although the operation was successful heart failure caused , death on Sunday morning. Perhaps the most exciting/ incident, in. Mr. Bishop's career occurred while he was. rafting at Pakiri, in the surf. Owing fto j the. rough sea the ;■ raft ■ capsized, with the result that although Mr. Bishop was ; washed ashore ; alive, • is . two companions met with a watery grave. The deceased is survived by his widow, one son (Mr. A- Bishop, of <. Onehunga), and four daughters. , The .funeral,, which , was conducted by the Rev. Canon Haselden, was of the military order, a detachment and firing party being provided' by the New Zealand Permanent Artillery. ; ■.- , . . . '