PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15496, 1 January 1914, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

ft*!;'-.'.' ."•'■'-.'..i-i. 11 .<» • ■■ 'Jin. : m> lias. 'Qmoa» ; Moobb, of Wan-, Ranui, are Jit present en a visit to Auckland. TEe Rev. and Mrs. Gavin Smith arrived in Auckland from Nine, in the South Sea Islands, by the ketch Kereru last evening. Sir Jamej Carroll will arrive from Wellington by this morning's Main Trunk express. He is to hi a guest at the Star Hotel. Mr. A. P. Brown, prominent in business circles in Wellington, is at present visitins Auckland, and is staying at the Royal Hotel. Mr. J. W. Tibbe, headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School, left for the (South by the 0.10 o'clock express last night. Mr. R. E. Butcher, inspector of explosives, was a passenger to Auckland from • (Wellington yesterday. He is staying at the Royal Hotel Dr. P. H. Buck (Te Rangihiroa), M.P. for the Northern Maori district, and Mrs. Buck, arrived from Wellington yesterday, find are staying at the Central Hotel. Mr. George Flux, for many years a city headmaster under the Wellington Education Board, is paying a visit to Auckland. He is staying at the Royal Hotel Mr. Vernon H. Reed, M.P. for Bay of Islands, will orrive in Auckland from Wellington on Monday afternoon. ' He ;, intends to visit Australia for a holiday next month. ' The death is announced of the Dowager Queen of Sweden, who succumbed, to acute inflammation of the lungs after an illness lasting only three days.— (Press Association.) Mr. T. Buckley, chief electrician for the I'osi -and Telegraph Department, left for Wellington by the mii-dly express yesterday. He has been in Auckland for a fortnight on Departmental business. Dr. C. B. Rossitcr >and Mrs. Rossiter, of Auckland,, are at present abiient on a motor tour in South Auckland. v The party left Mount Albert on Christmas Day, and proposed to. visit Waitomo, Okoroiie/ v ßot<arua, and ; Tauranga.,-',■■ i.:- ! •; :. Sir Josnpb, Ward, Leader of tb& Opposition in the' House of Representatives, is f visiting Invefcargill ' He will attend the , West Coast jubilee celebrations,. which begin op. January 7, and return to Wellington aboutithe middle of January; .. ■> : J Major General Godley, • coarnandant of ■(j the New Zealand forces, who is expected . to ; in Auckland on January 3 sitter : i ? his visit Ito the' United kingdom;' will I remain .for about a week, in the northern % city, ;; and*. will then go on to-Wellington I (telegraphs our Wellington correspondent). ¥ Colonel ; Heard, * acting-commandant, will 'leave Wellington for Auckland to-day, and J), will meet the commandant on his arrival, He will also be present at the military tournament,-. - ■ Sir William H. Lever, head of the firm :"of Lever Bros., of Port Sunlight, .ww ex, ? ; pected to reach; Wellington last evening % from the Solomon Islands in the-firm's ; own cteaiaisr, the Knhkmbangia. v Created j:a':.baroni3t in 1911, Sit William is chairm of tie Liverpool School. 1 ; of < Tropical Medicine. He was a member of the Honsft of Commons from 1906 to 1910.. The .' has extensive interest? in the South Seasj and employs its own fleet of steamers to , collect : the } copra 1 from ; the ; varioWrislin\t groups, A manufactory exwts in Sydney, : and the firm is about to establish a factory at Petone. Sir William will 'leave- tomorrow for Sydney to join his eon, Mr. ' W. Hulma Lttcr. ' :