PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. J. B. Rainoy, of Wellington, is a t the Star HoteL Mr. and Mrs. W. O'Riordan, of Sydney are at tho Hotel Cargen. Mr. J. McCallnm, of British Columbia, Canada, is at the Star Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. C. Jones, of Neath, New South Wales, are at tho Star Hotel. ; Mr. R. S. Ellis, Mr. H. Ellis, and Mr. ''J A. T. Perkin, of London, aro at the Hotel Cargen. Mr. L. M. Cole, of Sydney, and Mr. H. R. Atkinson, of Tauranga, are at tho Central HoteL Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bowring, of Sydney, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. V. Hutchison, of Wellington, and Mr. F. J. Nathan, of Palmerston North, aro at the Grand Hot-eL Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Matthews, of Sydney, and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gillon, of Wellington, are at the Central Hotel. Mr. G. N. Connell and Mr. A. A. Gaffnay, of Sydney, and Mr. H. P. Gullett, of Melbourne, are at the Hotel Cargeu, Mr. T. Price, of Wellington, Mr. W. Farmworth, of Wanganui,'and Mr. 0. G. Thornton, of Paeroa, aro at tho Royal HoteL . Sir J. Joynton Smith arrived yesterday at Wellington by the Tahiti from Sydney on a holiday trip through New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs A. Prosser, and Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bevin, of Whangarei, and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Williams, of Hastings, aro at the Star HoteL Mr. H. L. Lawrie, a retired English business man, was a passenger from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. Ho will proceed to Rotorua for trout-fishing. Mr. P. J. Keeling, of Birmingham, England, Mr. C. M. Carroll, of Ireland, and Mr. C. Kingston and Mr. J. N. Hunter, of Sydney, are at tha Royal Hotel. Mr. T. G. Amos, Mr. 7. Lazarus, Mr. A. G. Gillies, Mr. G. Sharpe, Mr. 'J. Canny and Mr. A. J. Canny, of Sydney, and Mr W. A. Duffield, of Canberra, aro at the Grand HoteL Lieutenant-Commander C. Graham-Wat-son, who, with Mrs. Watson, arrived from Sydney yesterday, is to replace Lieutenant-Commander L. L. Tollemache on H.M.S. Dunedin. Mr. R. A. Waley, of London, Mr. 11. L. Lowrie, of Rockhampton, England, Mr, W. N. W. Cunningham, of New York, Mr. A. Cathcart, of Durban, South Afripa, and Mr. C. Struber, of Capetown, are at the Grand Hotel. Tho Rev. V. Kav.inagh, and Mr. M. J. Rohan, of Victoria, Australia, Mr. Donelan, Mr. J. E. W. Eawcett, Mr E. Moon, Mr. F. W. Bakewoll, Mr. I. Walters, and, Mr. W. Smith, of Sydney, Mr. V. Perrin, of Perth, aro afc the Star Hotel. Major T. J. Mather, of the Australian Salvation Army field service, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday to spend a holiday with relations at Frankton. Major Mather, who has been 43 years with the Salvation Army, was once stationed in Auckland, Colonel Richard Sparrow, C.M.G., D.5.0., of Essex,* arrived yesterday by the Maunganui from Sydney. He is accoml panied by Mrs. Sparrow, and will later proceed to Russell, where lie intends..to do some deep-sea fishing. Colonel Spar-row-j who has iid# retired'from'* the saw service in South Africa, India and" the Great War. Major-General Edward Henry Willis, C.8., C.M.G., who has been attached, to the Royal Artillery in India since the Great War, arrived yesterday by ■ the Maunganui from Sydney. His term--.of service in India has come to an end and he will spend two months in New.Zealand on his way back to England. Maj6rGeneral Willis is a keen fisherman and he intends to spend most of his time hero in trout-fishing. During the war,he served with the Seventeenth Corps in France and was mentioned in despatches five times. The Governor-General, "Sir Charles Fergusson, was his chief. From 1896 to 1898, Major-General Willis was instructor in artillery in Queensland. He is accompanied by Mrs. Willis, and is-at tho Grand Hotel. .