PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13708, 26 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Jouv M'ackay, Government printer, is at present on a visit to Botorua.

Dr J W Williams has consented to contest the Mayoralty of Gishorue.

D,. \ 0 Purchas and Mrs. Purchas returned 'from the North by the Clansman yesterday.

Miss Tittell Bruno has returned to Australia after an extended holiday in America and Europe.

Mr W. A. Boucher, Government penologist', arrived from Wellington yesterday by the Takapuna.

Chief-Detective Marsack, win. has been »,wav for a month <>n holiday leave, has resumed his duties in Auckland.

The Rev. Marmaduke Warner is expected to arrive in Inglewood to-day to take up work in the Taranaki district.

Archdeacon Cole, of Taranaki, will induct the Rev. H. A. Saved to the charge of Stratford, Taranaki, on Sunday next.

Captain von Grunslius. of luankfurt-oi>-the-Maiu, Germany, wul visit New Zealand shortly lo take part in the deer shooting season.

Mr. S. Hattersley, of the clerical department of the Colonial Sugar Company at Chelsea, is leaving for England shortly. On Tuesday Mr. Hattersley was presented by the employees, through.Mr. H. H. Speedy, chief engineer of the works, with a handsome gold watch, as a.token of the esteem Vi which he is held.

The Rev. J. Cocker, the New Zealand representative to the Primitive Methodist Conference, to be. held in London shortly, leaves Wellington for England to-day. The executive of the New Zealand Alliance has passed a resolution recording its sense of the valuable aid Mr. Cocker has rendered to the no-license movement in New Zealand.

Captain Johndal, of the barque Olivia, which is loading kauri timber at the Northern Wairoa for Hull, England, left for Kaipara yesterday. Captain Johndal has been trading between New Zealand and Australia for the past 12 years, and on his present voyage will proceed to Norway to take command of a new vessel for the intercolonial trade.

Mr. Jas. Mitchell, one of the early settlers of Wellington, died yesterday morning. Deceased arrived from England with his parents in the ship Gertrude 67 years ago, and he and his two brothers (Mr. Henry Mitchell, who is still living in Wellington, and Mr. Wm. Mitchell, who died six years ago, aged 83) settled in Polhill Gully, and for many years carried on business there as contractors and brickmakers. The suburb of Mitchelltown was named after them. Deceased wits in his 86th year. He has-left a family of four sons and three daughters.

Mr. R. A. Hould, senior clerk at the Auckland official assignee's office, who has retired from the Government service, after a connection of 24 years, was presented with a travelling bag and portmanteau by his colleagues yesterday as a mark of their esteem. In making the presentation, Mr "E. Gerard (official assignee) said that Mr. Hould had been a loyal and most valuable public servant Mr. Hould suitably . replied, and in doing so mentioned that 'it was 50 years since he. had landed in New Zealand. He will leave on a visit to England shortly, and he expects to be absent for about 12 months. ,

* Mr. Young Warren, who died at his residence, "Llanavon," Dominion Road, on Monday, at the age of 72 years, arrived in Auckland from Ireland in 1862 by the ship Shalimahr. ,-. 'Joining the volunteer force during the Maori war, he saw active ser'•viceMir the Waikato, and afterwards entered into business as a grocer, retiring about 21 years ago. From 1899 to 1900 Mr. Warren represented Karangahape Ward in the Auckland City Council, and also held office as a member of the Costley Trust Board, the Charitable Aid Board, and the Mount Eden Highway Board.. Deceased leaves a widow', three sons and two daughters. The interment took place at the Onehunga Cemetery yesterday, the Rev. W. S. Potter officiating. .