PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3263, 21 October 1897, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Norman Gurr returned from Sydney by the Waikare yesterday afternoon.

The Hon W, 0, Walker was a passenger from South by the Te Anau yesterday.. . Colonel Benton ’and Captain Coleman returned from South by the Te Anau yesterday afternoon.

Mr A-Sligo, the successful candidate in the recent by-election at Bunedin, came up from South by the T« Anau yesterday.

Captain Anderson, who returned from England in the lonic to Wellington, was a passenger to Christchurch by the Te Anau yesterday. The Hon 0. C. Bowen, M.L.0., returned: from a trip to the Old Country by the Waikare yesterday.' He is booked through" to Lyttelton. .v. ..

Among the passengers by the Waikare yesterday afternoon .-were Messrs Rhodes, Hawthorne and Holder, of the .team of New Zealand athletes which recently at. Sydney. ■ - . The well-known Sydney writer, Mr Louis Beoke, had, at latest advices, relinquished the editorship of Unwin’s “ Rulers of. Greater Britain” series upon which ho has been engaged in England. ’ Bro. W. Barron, Grand Master of the New Zealand Grand Lodge of Freemasons, and Bro. Bey W. Eoaaldsou, secretary, have passed through Wellington on their way to attend the half-yearly communication in Auckland. According to a private telegram received in Palmerston North (states the Daily Times), Sergeant Wilson, of Chriatchnroh, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the ..police, force in Palmerston caused by the death of Sergeant-Major Soanlan. Sergeant Ellison, of Auckland, is to succeed Insoeotor Cullen at Wanganui. Sergeant Ellison is a painstaking and conscientious officer, who is well qualified for the post. He has been for some time chief clerk m the district office in Auckland. Rata Kadavu Levu, ; grandson of the famous King Makurabau, <f Fiji, who was a member of the Fijian cricketing team that visited New Zealand in 1895, has arrived at Sydney from his island Lome. The object of his visit is to see Stoddart’s team play and witness the Melbourne Cup) ’ '

A yoqng man named Ernest Amos, son of Mr A, Amos, of Nelson, died’ suddenly in Wanganui on Tuesday. He was exceedingly popular, and his death will bo regretted by a wide oirole of friends The young man, who was in the employ of Mr A. D. Willis, was only 23 years of age. Mr Henry Collins, of Nelson, second officer of the Charles Edward, who has been studying navigation at the Trinity Bonse Navigation School, yesterday morning, passed his Examination foy a certificate' of competency as mate of a Home-trade ship in the mercantile marine 1 . **' ■'

In the latest issue to hand of “Amusements,” an English period cal, there is a phologtapK'and' short biography of Mr F. H. Fraser, spn o{ Captain Eraser, well known at ope time on tbs qoasj; as tlje genial skjpper of the Stprmbird. Mr F. M. !j?raser has just been promoted to the position pf suporjn; tendent for the Groat Western Railway Company at Portsmouth. He entered the service of the Company as junior clerk in ISG9,and in 1885 was appointed stationmaster at Windsor. On leaving Windsor .be was made the recipient of a presentation by T.E.H. Prince and Princess Christian. Hia father’s friends fn the .colony will he glad |to hear of his last iipward step iji’thp'(Service. Sir Everett Millais, tbe'gldest son of thp late Sir John Millais, who died suddenly in England lately, was several years Back well known in both Australia and New Zealand to a number of people. A London correspondent sa v s he met him in Auckland about 1881, and fie* had than bean a rolling atone in the colonies for a oobsiddtal)le time. §ir Everett was "fin enthusiastic oog'fanoier; and affef his sidtrablo capacity, bis V°to9i of African sketches give an excellent idea Of the denizens of tho Veldt. The baronet pcsessed an iron oouatitnton, and only contracted the malady which earned him off a week before his death.

Hi? Ereellenoy the Governor gave a Parliamentary diaUef at Government House last night, Tb* rfeMve.d inviteGons; —Hons W. Ilall-Jonos, J. CqrrplJ, N, li. J'. Beeves, W. Kelly, W. H. Reynolds, J. Bigg, H Scotland, J. Shepherd, S; E Shrlmski, W. C. Smith, J. Kerr, L. Walker, H. Williams, W. Eolleston, W. C. Walker, W. Swcinson, G. Jones, T. Kelly, W. Jennings, B Harris,' Sie Egbert ‘Stout, Mfessrs M. J.-S. Mackenzie, E. V. Moreau, W. Stir as, G. G. Wright, C. Wilson, W. PjraaSr, T. Parata, H.' Kaihan, J. Bollard, H. Brown, G.' CVecn', H. 4. Field, G. Fisher, M. Gilfedder, W. Herries. J. Holland, J. Hutcheson, O. Lewi?, B. MoEensie, J, A, Millar, TE Taylor, J. O’Meara,, E. Monk. E. 'Moqije, M.’sH.B, Fiaon, A. Willis and Friend. Mr Augustas Arthur Perceval, who has just inherited a seat in the House o£ Lords, several titles, a sumptuous estate, 35,000 acres of splendid land, an<} half a million of money, by the death of his cousin, the Eajr} of Eg : mont, was bom at Papanui, Canterbury; New Zealand, and is understood to be related tp the late Agent-General of the colony.; He has always been very much of a rolling stone, roving here, there and everywhere, and not gathering a great deal of moss. His lordship married one of the graceful and discreet dam. sels who assist at the bars of 3pi»r« and Fond. The union did not, however, result happily, and some time ago the pair separated. Mr Pereayal left Npw Zealand at a comparatively early age, and was for a year or so a cadet on hoard the Worcester! Be 'aid not. However, tkke kindly to discipline,'And drifted to sea before the mast. After several'voyages to Australia apd New Zealand on merchantmen, the young man obtained a second male’s certificate. He then decided that he “ never was meant for the sea,” and in 1881 joined the London Fi;e Brigade.