PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13453, 1 June 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Th« Rot., Mr.' Goodyear, of :Tauranga, is at present on a visit to Auckland;

The- Hon. W. Hall-Jones is improving in health, and only requires a good rest to ensure complete and speedy recovery.

Captain S. Holford is temporarily in charge of the s.s. Pateena while that vessel is taking up the-Takapuna's west coast running. r/ ■■' ' •

Mr. E. T. Norris, of Wanganui (says a Press Association telegram), has been appointed assistant master at the. Ash burton High School.

Captain Flemming, the superintendent of local marine at Auckland, who has been to Wellington on official business, returned by the Pateena yesterday. '

Dr. H. Grattan Guinness will leave foxSydney on Monday. He will, deliver his final address in Auckland at His Majesty's Theatre to-morrow evening.

Mr. Horace Moore- a well-known artist, who has been, for years a member of the council of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales, has decided to residein Auckland. ' v, "". ' '.',..'. i" .".' .. ' ' "'.:'':

Mr. F. Brown, manager of the Komata Reefs mine, has accepted the position of superintendent of the Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Company, a post. rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. H. 1.Simmons.

Mr. J. R. Carpenter, who has been on a visit to Europe,, the United States, and Canada, and who came to Auckland by the Miowera from Sydney, on Sunday, left for New Plymouth yesterday by the Pateena, ,on his way home'to Masterton.

The Hon. J. A. Millar arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He will be in Hunedin to-day, and will inspect the workmen's homes at Windle on Monday, opening the Dunedin Show on Tuesday, and addressing his constituents on Tuesday night. The Minister will return to Wfllington on Wednesday by the first express.

Mr. John Golds-worthy, old colonist, aud a resident of Coromandel, of. many years' standing, has passed away. Although he had reached the age of three-score and ten, deceased had been robust and well until the last few months. For the past few years he had been manager of the Old Hauraki mine, which position ho held up' till the time of his death. Mr. Goldsworthy arrived in the colony when, a child, and had followed mining pusuits for 55 years, his first experience being gained at copper mining at the Great Barrier, under his father. He was known in almost every mining camp. Mr. Goldsworthy was admitted to the Coromandel Hospital last 3 week, and he died there yesterday. He leaves a widow and large grown-up family, as well as several brothers and sisters. The remains will be interred at Auckland this afternoon.