MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1249, 6 February 1896, Page 17

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

Dr MacGregor returned on January 29 from hi 3 official visit to the West Coast. The Premier left for the South by the Mararoa on Thursday evening-. He will be absent from Wellington about a week. The Hawke's Bay Herald hears that Herr Handke has been offered "the position of instructor of music and German at the Nelson College, the position lately vacated by Herr Balling, and that he will probably accept it. Herr Handke was in Wellington last year with the Gwen Davies Company. The land-brokers of Christchurch waited on Mr J. M. Batharn, district land registrar, t and Mr Kilgour, chief clerk in the Land Transfer Department, on Wednesday, to wish them good-bye on the eve of their departure for Wellington, at the same time presenting them with illuminated addresses, as tokens of esteem. Our Masterton correspondent writes that Constable T. Stewart, who is leaving for Blenheim, has been presented by his friends with a silver-mounted pipe. News has been received from London that Mr J. Moeller, son of Mrs Moeller, of tho Occidental Hotel,has passed his examination in navigation, and has obtained an appointment as second mate. Some bXVgYA changes take place in St. Patrick's College stair. The Rev Father . Aubry has left to recruit his health in terbury, and tho llev Father Herberf-Tlaa been transferred to Napier. The' Bev • Fathers Holley and O'Reilly, formerly at- j tached to the college, resume their places oa_ tho staff this year. Mr C. J. Reeves, who has been a purser in the service of the Union Company for some , year 3, has resigned his appointment to pro- ! coed to tho West Coast, where he is engaged in business in connection with mining. Miss Bertha Rossow is to take a farewell benefit at tho Melbourne Town Hall on tho 27th inst., prior to her departure for England. Mr G. Wright, of Bisbbpscourt School, Nelson, has been appointed to the vacancy in tho Heretaunga High School, Hastings. Mr Blow, Under - Secretary for Public Works and Railway*, having completed his j visit to Otago, left Dunedin for Christ-1 church on Tuesday. He may probably reJ turn to Wellington by the end of the week 1 Mr Barron (Under-Secretary for Lands), whoS is at present engaged in the South with thefl Minister of Lands, is expected back at theM beginning of next week. Upon lfe. return th-ll Surveyor-General (Mr S. Percy Smith) will proceed to Tokaanu (Cake Taupo) to complete arrangements with tho Natives for the laying out of a township at that place. Mr E. Pearce intends to leave for England about the end of this month. He will pro« bably be absent for over twelve months, j, We regret very much to learn that Mr I Watson, president of the Bank of New Zea-J land, met with a serious accident on Tuesday,* • While out for an airing on his bicycle,^tej^fl , went wrong with the machine, | collapsed, and gave him a nasty fall, i result being a broken leg. Dr Anson wqß I soon in attendance, and everything is as welH I as can be expected with his patient. Prince Boris, the two-year-old son ofl Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, will be^jj baptised on Sunday. *JHJ| M. Neville Renaud has arrived in Nafß from Melbourne to take up the organist and choirmaster at St. Church. \1 Mr A. F. Hill has bsen offered the position! of principal of the Nelson College of Music I Mr Hill, however, has declined the offer, anM will remain in Wellington. H On Tuesday the Chief Justice admitted Mil I Frank Holdsworth as a solicitor of the! Supremo Court, on tho motion of Mr W. H.B Quick. Mr Holdsworth has been employedß in Mr Quick's office for many years. ' I Miss Spencer has been appointed to sad ceed Miss Fraser at the Napier Girls' HiVIM School. J -"B«