PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3826, 23 August 1899, Page 5

PERSONAL.

. Nest week Archbishop Redwood will conduct a mission at Meanee, Hawke’s Bay.

A number of influential citizens are trying to induce tho. Mayor (Mr J. R. Blair) to stand again for that position. Mr IV. Prince, wharfinger to' the Wellington Harbour Board, who has been ill tor tho past few months, has resumed his duties. A. Carterton telegram sent by the Press Association states that Mr George King, an old and respected settloij died there on Monday afternoon. He arrived in the colony in 1857. Miss Annie Lorrigan, tho well-known Auckland soprano, has been engaged by the Palmerston North Choral Society.

which is producing Hadyn’s “Creation” and Handel’s “Judas *xacc»beus” at the end of the month.

The London correspondent of a Melbourne 'contemporary states that ViceAdmiral Lord Charles Scott. K.C.8., who - formerly commanded on the Australian station, and who married Mies Ada Ryan, daughter of Mr Charles Rva-n, of Ryan ‘ and Hammond, Melbourne, has been promoted to the rank of admiral.

A venerable native named Tamati Hanimana, an old resident- of Mokoia Island, iu Lake Rotorua, died recently at tho Purewa mission station, near Pitongia, Waikato, where he was visiting his son, the Rev T.iimona- Hapimana. The “Hawke’s Bav Herald” says the cld man was a fine specimen of the past o-enoration of Maoris, and was well acouaiuted with the .ancient loro and mythology of his people.