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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1536, 7 August 1901, Page 22

Qur Auckland correspondent telegraphs that among the passengers who arrived by the San Francisco mail steamer was Mr F. G. Woolley, who was a candidate for the United States Presidency last year. Mr Woolley gave a lecture last night. He visits Rotorua, and will go South on a lecturing tour on Monday next. Another passenger was the Rev Charles Williams, ex -president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland.

Among the passengers by the s.s. Papanui, which left for London on Thursday, is Mr Leopold Man del, son of Mr Joseph Mandel, a young New Zealander, who after spending some years at the Wellington College under Mr J. P. Firth, 8.A., is proceeding to the Old loan try to pursue at Guy’s Hospital Medical School the study of medicine. * During his school course Mr Mandel early displayed a liking for the medical profession, and at the age of fifteen ho matriculated as an undergraduate of the New Zealand University, passing at the same time his medical preliminary examination. Mr Mandel, who is now seventeen years of age, will take a course extending over six years at Home, and he leaves* with the best wishes of all who know Ljni. As a student, his former masters predict* for him a successful career. A splendid manuscript on. vellum, be_ ing half of- Wycliffe’s version of th© Bible (dated 1410), realised £I2OO in a London saleroom. A picture by Constable, “The Lock,” sold for 1900 gum; eas. An egg of the giant bird of Madagascar, which hast been extinct for over a century, fetched 35 guineas. Mrs Neve, of Guernsey, who enjoys excellent health, entered upon her 100th year on Saturday, May 18.