PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

yesterday. J " apier left for Wellington Mr. \\ . W. Squires, of Nelson i. r,n a brief holiday visit to Auckland.' " Mr. Martin Kennedy, of Wellington, is at present on a visit to Auckland I P Mr. J. vG. C oateS ' "M.P. for Kainara left lor Wellington by the mid-dav express yesterday. Colonel A. R. late, of Grovtown, i s at present in Auckland, and i," staving at the Central Hotel. The Hon A M. Myers. Minister for J- usioms and -Munitions, returned to Wellington last night by the Main Trunk express. Mr. Mervvn Weils, Mayor of Cambridge, is spending a few davs in AuckHotel aDd 1S Stayng at the Cent vMr J. Munro. manager of the Rank of t . w South Wales at Hastings, is on a Central HoteL aa,i ' 3 6ta - '" at 1,10 AiK lr * J- Dickson - M.P.. and Mr. Albert Glover, M.P.. arrived from Wellmgton by yesterday afternoon's Main lrunk express. Major G. W. Cobcroft, of Napier, who has been on duty in Samoa, returned bv the Navua yesterday. He is on side leave, having sustained an injury to his lett ieg. . T^ le Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, who took his seat on the Auckland University College Council for the first time vesterday, was welcomed by the chairman, Sir Maurice O'Rorke. " I Captain George C. Hart, for manv years assistant marine superintendent cf* the L aw ' Sanl and Albion Company in WelJmgton, who retired six years ago, died in Wellington yesterday at the age of 74. Dr. H. W Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop 01 Auckland, is still lying seriously ill in Sydney. News received yesterday by cablegram was to the effect that no progress on the part of the patient could be reported. I Major Norton Francis returned from oamoa. by the Navua, which arrive* yesterday morning. He has been engaged on staff work, and will report to headquars' He left for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday. Mr S. S. Deane, manager at Gisborna lor the South British Insurance Company, who has undergone an operation ior appendicitis in a private hospital in Auckland, will leave for his home bv tha victoria this afternoon. -Ajcb*->ald G. Brown, formerly of the East London Tabernacle, and Mrs Brown, arrived by the Riverina from - Sydney yesterday. They will proceed . to Rotorua at the end of the week and return to Auckland in time for the " Baptist Tabernacle diamond jubilee services on Sunday, August 29. . Mr. Percy A. Johnson, son of 'the late Captain A. J. Johnson, has joined Kin" > Edward s Horse, and is now in training at Bishop Stotford, Essex. Prior to enlisting he was second officer of the Indian Steam Navigation Company's steamer Sumatra. He was educated "at the Auckland Grammar School.