PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2928, 18 September 1896, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

It is, stated that Mr Justice Williams in' tends retiring from the Bench.

F. G. Simpson will represent at Sydney in the cycling events which iro to decide who shall bo sent to. England. His times are : 2min 25,2.-qsß,s, Luvd Glasgow and party leave by the Hinornoa at 3 o'olook to-morrow morning on a four days’ cruise to the Marlborough Sounds,. Havelock and Pieton will bo among the places visited.

. Mr W. Ferguson, qecrejjary, to, the Wellington Harbour Board, 1 was, granted, three weeks’ Icuvc.of absence, at the meeting ot (fio Board, yesterday. ' ‘ ’ '"

I Mr Herman Dairy Expert for tho Swedish, Goyernmcni, representing tho Dr Do Lqic4- Cream Separator Company, Stock- : holm, arrived from Sydney last night on his , way to Canterbury. Mr John Moriarty, of Westport, who had. his eyesight seriously injured by a powder .explosion at Addison’s some months ago, loaves for London by tho lonic to- ir,ojrrov,. for ■ medical treatment.

The appointment, of- Mr James Crosby Martin a,s public Trustee, vice Mr J. K. Warihurtew, appointed to the office of Controller and Auditor-General, is gazetted, as also is that of Mr John McGowan, as Superintendent of the Government Advances to Settlers. Office, vice Mr J. K. IVarßurtoq.

A specie! catje, message received- by us frqii\ Adelaide, states that Madame Antoinette Trobelli finished a very highly successful season or nine concerts in that each being: attended by thousands of people, ‘ After singing her last nun?,be,r. she received a tremendous ovf\tio£, ihe 'orchestra and public stand,ihg. up and cheering far several minutes. She left o,r\ Tuesday for Broken Sill, where all the seats far three concerts were booked days previously. Mr J. D. Greig, who takes over the managership of the Bank of Australasia at Wanganui from Mr Turner io Auckland), arrived from Sydney last rught oy the b.s. Teknnr r TJu Greig. was for three year* ot- G.oUjlborn, (Neyr. So,nth \\ ; ales)i o.t the. ’Asia, and leaving. - there was vfith, a And a.f snV^aiS lls ’.

The Bev and Mrs Wyndham were passengers by the Tekapo last night. Mr Naree, lately ofliksex (England), andatohe time located in Brisbane, proceeds, to Pa); maraton North ib a few days, where ho will act as curate ta tha Eey Mr Bunt, vioar of the pariah, In common with tho rest of the coramuity tho representatives of the press whoso .i i f y it is to attend the Magistrate** C m-t reg ot ot* ceedinglv the resignation by M* J. C. Martin ot his office as Stipendiary MigUtrato. To the reporters, as to everybody else, Mr Martin has been nniformly most kindly and considerate, and in a variety of ways he has given them material assistance in the performance of theic duties.

to his vifitto tho Coast, the Westport Times recalls tho fact that Sir Robert Stout played in a football match there 22

Mr T. K. Warburton, accompanied by big daughter, left for a trip to Australia by the Tasmania yesterday for the benefit of bis health.

Mrs Hewott, superintendent of the W.C.T.U. work among the Maoris, has just returned to Wellington from the Waikato, where she has been most successful in promoting among the Native people a desire for those higher things which make tor the preservation and uplifting of a people. While at Auckland Mrs Hewott visited the Maori College at Parnell, and she declares it to bo an institution of which the Native race ami tho Europeans ought to be very proud. At Napier the Native Girls’ College was visited, and the groat progress made by the scholars—more especially in spiritual matters—was noted with satisfaction by Mrs Howctt and the lady tourists who accompanied her.