PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14746, 31 July 1911, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Archdeacon Cole was a P-jjjJ; NeW Plymouth yesterday by the lateena.

Mr J F. MacMahon, of MaeMahon Brothers,' is at present on a visit to Auckland. .;_,. . ',< ~

Captain Matthews was a passenger for Newptymouth by the west coast steamer yesterday. . :-. , •

Mr A. V. S. Reed, of Tuparoa, arrived by the Main Trunk express yesterday, and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. Hugh H. Gato, a tourist from Canada, arrived by the Maheno yesterday, and is staying at the Royal Hotel.

Mr. D. M. Ross, of Napier, arrived by the Main Trunk express yesterday morning, and is staving at the Star Hotel...

Bishop Crosslev, who is indisposed, was reported to bo much better yesterday. tie expects to bo about again in a day or two.

Mr P. N. ■Kingswell, who has been on a holidav trip to the Islands and Australia, returned'by the Maheno yesterday morning.

Mrs. Alice Alison, wife of Mr. Duncan Alison, died at Waipu on Friday, after a brief illness, which developed into diphtheria.

Colonel G. W. S. Patterson, coast defence commander for the Auckland district, returned by the Maheno from a visit to the East yesterday.

Mr A. S. Ayson, chief inspector of fisheries, arris-ed from Wellington by the Main Trunk express on Saturday morning, . and is staving at the Star Hotel.

Mr. Leopold Jacobv, of London, who has been touring the Dominion, arrived from Wellington by. the Main Trunk express yesterdav, and is staving at .the Grand Hotel.

Mr. A. B. J. Irvine, manager of the Auckland branch of the Union Steam Ship Companv, returned from Sydney by the Maheno'vesterdav. after a six weeks tour of New South Wales and Queensland. ;„

Francis McParland, licensee of the Hotel Cecil, Wellington, died on Saturday, aged 71. He was a former resident of. Westland, and was chairman of the Wellington Licensed Victuallers' Association.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie arrived at Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning, and went south by the first express. He has engagements in Otago until Thursday. On Wednesday he will attend the opening of the Dunedin Winter Show.

The Rev. A. F. Smith and family, of Northcote. have booked passages for England by the Ruahine, leaving Wellington on August 24. The Rev. H. S. Davies will take charge of. the parish of Northcote after August 20 untfl "a new vicar is appointed,™

Of the visitors who arrived by the i vesterday the following are staying at the Grand Hotel:—Messrs. El Macdonald, of Aberdeen; J. G. Campbell, of Newcastle-on-Tvne; R. Newton Vanes, of Dunedm; H. E. Snell. of Ceylon; and T. H. Barnshaw, of Sydney. r

The appointment of Mr. W. J. 'Hookey, manager of the Waihi municipal gasworks, to a similar post at Nelson will cause a distinct loss to Waihi. Mr. Hookey has rendered excellent service at Waihi, and has mads himself extremely popular with his fellow-townspeople He took a ..prominent part in musical matters, more particularly in connection with the Waihi Liedertatel, and his departure • will . be generally regretted. ' \

" Mr. -Newton Jones, the London Sunday-1 school evangeliet, arrived by the Maheno ! from Svdnev vesterday. Mr. Jones visited the Dominion 13 years ago on a health tour, and he .considers, his present yieit a happy "climax to his 21 years* evangelistic work" in connection with the London Sun-day-school « Union throughout the British Isles. He has just completed a campaign in Australia, , with gratifying results. ~;: M», object he has in view is 'chiefly to create a revival in Sunday-school work and to encourage . Sunday-school reform. - After visiting ; Wellington, , Cfiristchurch, ; and' Dunedin ho : proceeds to the Argentine and returns to England on January 1. Mr. Jones opened his campaign ini Aucklandlast evening" at the,:. Baptist Tabernacle,. where he gave an" earnest address * before a large congregation. _____