PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15060, 1 August 1912, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mn. John Kkib, estate agent, and ( exchairman of the Standard Insurance V Oll1 * pany, died at Dunedin on Tuesday night. Air. Charles Rhodes left for Wellington last evening bv the. Main, Trunk express. He will probably return to Auckland on day. Mr. E. W. Alison left by Hie Main Trunk express for Wellington hist evening. While, in Wellington he will attend tho conference to be held under lie auspices of the l'eform party.

The Veil. Archdeacon Urodie, whose illness has given list; t-> grave anxiety, shows marked improvement (telegraphs our vYaihi correspondent), and strong hope* are now held out for his recovery.

Mr. 11. 11. Adams?, accompanied by Cap tun iieid, wiil leave on a. visit to England s, i-in on ow l.iv the Makura. While in the Old Country' Mr. Adams will be engaged upon lite flotation oj several companies.

Anions the p.«-spongers who arrived in Auckland bv the Zeaiandia from Vancouver vosterdav was .Mi. .Matthew (/lark, of Auckland. Mr. Ciark lias been absent from New Zealand during the. last 18 months on a business trip to England. He spent. a fortnight in Germany: Hon. K. O'Connor, a- judge of the High Court of Australia, passed through Auckland yesterday on board the Zealandia, bound from Vancouver, to Sydney. He ha% been on an extensive tour of England and the Continent, and is returning home with his health completely restored. Air. V. .1. fair, Mayor of Auckland, who has been absent for" some weeks on a visit to Australia, was expected to return next Sunday, but will not bo here till some days later. Instead of coining to Auckland direct, ho will leave Sydney on (Saturday in tho Maunganui for Wellington, vrhero he is due on Wednesday. lie will attend to certain business in the capital before coming North, and is expected here at the end of next week.