PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15002, 25 May 1912, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Mayor (Mr. C. J- Parr* will return The Mayor Mr. C. J- ™J ■om Wellington tins morning. Mr T M. WuW> M.P. for Halt,,i» exSted to arrive * Auckland by the JMarama on June °>- to arrivo on Monday. Air J Rifforeau has been gazetted Conful for France at Auckland (says a Press Association message). Mr. T. Parata, M.P. for the Southern Maori division, left Auckland by the $5 Trunk express train last evening. The Rev. John Dawson, general secretary of the Now Zealand Alliance, who is on a visit to Australia, will leave Sydney for Wellington to-day. The Rev H. P. Holbrook, administrator of St. Patrick's Cathedral, will return to Auckland to-morrow moning. -He has been travelling on holiday in the South for a fortnight. Mr \ B. J. Irvine, manager of the Auckland branch of the Union Steam Ship Company, has returned to Auckland from KotoW after having spent some time in the thermal regions recuperating his health. Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P., has the double honour, according to a statement made at the Farmers' Union Conference, of being the first enrolled member of the union and the first member of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. A large gathering of natives assembled at Omaha (Hawke's Bay) yesterday afternoon (telegraphs our own correspondent) to preset Sir James Carroll, and make him a presentation in testimony of the high esteem in which he is held by the Maoris of the surrounding districts. N"ew* was received yesterday by cable from Norfolk Island", by Archdeacon (.'aider, of the death of the Rev. G-. H. Andrews, missionary at Bngotu, Solomon islands, at tho ago of 38 years. Mr. Andrews, who died at Bugotu on %pril 26, joined the Melanesian Mission as a lay worker in 1905. Afterwards ha cam© to Auckland, and was made deacon here in 1910. He was ordained a priest at j Banana, Solomon Islands, just a year be-" i fore his death. J - I i