PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15296, 8 May 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

f- - V' V- -■ - ■" " - - - ■ , \ Mr. and Mrs. L.; Blundell, of Wellingz¥i ;■ ■ton, arrived in Auckland yesterday. The Commissioner of Polio© - (Mr. J. ;': Cttlleh) left Wellington for Auckland yesterday. ' ' •" ' " " ■ Professor Douglas Archibald, the Eng- : lish meteorologist, arrived in Auckland /■>■!,. yesterday morning. .; '.Mrs. and Miss Seddon and Mr. Stuart Seddon were passengers by the Main • Trunk express last night for Wellington. Colonel Logan, who has been staying at the Northern Club, left by the Main, , Trunk express last night for Wellington. Mr. M. M. McCallum and Mrs. McCallum, who have . been touring in Europe for the past 12 months, return to Auckland by the Niagara to-morrow. l Mr. H. Frith, sen., of Birkenhead, leaves by the Main Trunk express for Wellington on Tuesday, en route to England. fie returns about Christmas. Dr. Truby King, of Dunedin, accompanied by Mrs. King, will leave Wellington to-morrow for London, where he will represent New Zealand at a health con- • ■ ference. -..,-,..,. J . . Mr. James Body, Mayor of Te Kuiti, was present as a visitor at last night's ■■■:,- meeting of the -City; Council. .He was accommodated; with - a seat ; beside .:the - Mayoral : chair: * The New Plymouth: Harbour Board has reelected Mr. J. B. Connett chairman, .""/.''.'. : a position he has occupied since 1902. He was a member of the first board in 1875, and has continued a member almost ..."■'.■■. continuously since then. The Hon. H. D. Bell, Minister for Internal --Affairs, left by the Main Trunk express last evening on his return to Wellington. ' ' He was accompanied by Mrs. Bell and the Misses Bell and his private secretary (Mr." J. W. Black).. .; : : -Another old colonist, in ';the person of '■..■/' Mrs. Jno. Grant, whose husband was well . known in connection with the volunteer -.-. v movement at Thames and Auckland, died ;, yesterday. '• With her husband. deceased " arrived in Auckland in February, 1865. Mrs. Grant leaves three sons and one -- daughter, and v ft number of grandchildren. -Mr. James Hislop, Under-Secretary for ,/ Internal \ Affairs, will leave Auckland to--1; morrow evening. He has superintended the arrangements in Auckland for the visit v .::';■:•' of thousands of children to the New Zea- • land, and ; will proceed > direct to Christ- ; ~; church, arriving, on. Saturday morning, to ■/" make = similar arrangements there in con- : • nection with the ship's visit to Lyttelton. The latei Mr. William :"Malohe, late of v- the 57th Regiment, who died in the.Waiv. ■. ~ - katd S Hospital on :■■■ Monday'; ■: night, } was ;.J-.; ; V. buried with military honours • yesterday ..afternoon. Deceased was with his. regi- ■■'::..-.-. ment at the. storming of the Redan. when ;/j? ;;.('• of'6oo men who .-} marched ■";-' out 'only. 200 returned- _ • Deceased ; also, took part ■'■ in the Indian Mutiny campaign, and served .with, his regiment" in New Zealand. A ■ firing party ... was . furnished "\ by the 16th - -'(Waikato) Regiment. - ; . " ...;