PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13781, 20 June 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

,i - mmmm " — • ■ '?".■ Dr. Baker was a passenger from the :>;:.- South by the Takapuna yesterday. U , Mr; J. Bollard, SI.P., owing to a slight I ,y ' accident, is confined to his home, but ex.l "'\' pects to be about again in a few days. fvSn.' r ' ■•' ■':.'' '■'■ " |?fjA' - Ku'belik, the violinist, accompanied .by his wife, the Countess Czaky Ozell, and If concert party/ arrive from Sydney by tho Mokoia to-morrow. Mr. James - Parslow, the. veteran rifle ' shot and-ex-champion marksman of New ■ , Zealand, is at present in the Waihi Hospital in a critical condition. $ Mr. W. S. O'Brien, who has been actingsuperintendent of the Wellington City Fire Brigade since Mr. Hugo resigned, has been < • appointed superintendent of tho brigade Mr. T» H. White, who has been appointI ©d manager at Sydney to the Kauri Tims>'.:'■■ ber Company, leaves Auckland by the I Moana, on Monday, to assume his new '■;> duties* $¥. Sub-Inspector Gordon has returned to i 1 .'Auckland, after a visit to Whangarei, I where he represented the police at the |f animal meeting of the Marsden Licensing ] Committee. | Itr Mr. R. G. M. Denny, formerly Collec- ■'" tor of Customs at Tonga, who-has been !' on a- visit to Scotland, is at present in Auckland, and leaves for Tonga by the f: : ' . Attia on Tuesday next. life The death is announced of another of '; Auckland's old identities in the person of I Mrs". Jessie Shove. Deceased, who was 1 ' the daughter of the laic Mr. Hector Sutherland, of- Waipu, arrived here with her par- .!*'■■ ents in 1855, and a year after her arrival '■ <-ho married tho late" Mr. Thomas Shove. £■' She. had reached the age of 79 years, and V ' leavos a family of two eons and three -' daughters. NEWS IN BRIEF. lira"" • '" - * • " tA?'": : : ■ THERE are 5900 books in the Victoria Col- ' ' ; lege library, Wellington. £200 a year being spent in the way of books. „•" There are still strong indications of 'gas at the bore of the Inglewood '(Taranaki) Oil Boring and Prospecting Company. ',' ■ Tho total shipping which entered tho port of Hamburg in 1907 amounted to 12,040,461 tons, as compared with 11,069,000 tons in ;>' 1906. An announcement in last week's Gazette states that the originals of inland telegrams % .sod cable messages aro kept for six months and 12 months respectively. > ' ' :< "We have been asked to state that a sum of money has been found in the local post office/and that the owner may obtain it on making application to the chief post- | master. '•'.'"' Milk delivered in bottles, instead of be(''s;;'' '' ing poured out of cans at the door, is becoming popular in Wellington. A supplier '■■■ states that tho demand is greater than p" , the supply. "That," said a man at Mr. Sidey's politi- ?•;{■.. • cal meeting at Dunedin the other night, "is '; my only luxury, arid the only luxury of the SP'i:'working man. It should cost 2s 6d a I ' " pound, but it costs mo 6s a pound." Tho ?'■■■'■ reference was to a plug of tobacco. It is reported that the Brazilian Maritime League are arranging for the building of four 4000-ton sailing ships in Europe. The f'f; •;>• vessels will bo used for the training of sea)t>" men and officers of the mercantile marine, : and also servo as fi->ating exhibitions of f / Brazilian products in European ports. X,' '.' The Canard liner Caronia, which arrived at Liverpool on April 26, from New York, reported having established a new record ■'".'':■ in wireless telegraphy. She- was in com- '&-. munication with Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, *•' , when 2260 miles distant, , and at the same time with Clifton, County Galway, 936 miles .. v - distant. ' Stuffing rabbits' burrows with old news- ?,•■-• ■ paper as a means of coping with the rabp bit pest has been found very effective at V ' ' Peak Hill (N.S.W.). One landowner claims »* to -.'have entirely cleared his paddock by 1- this means. , The burrows opened after bes;. ing stuffed with paper were found to con- ~- tain a large number of dead rabbits.