PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Premier returned from HHike’s Bay last night. Hon. J. G. Ward wil proco j:1 to Eketahuna to-day to open a new post office there.

In chambers yesterday, before Air Justice Edwards, Air E. F. Johansen was admitted as a barrister and solicitor, on the motion of Air T. F. Martin. Captain Neil McDonald, who was master of the kotoh Gratitude when that vessel was lost on the Macquarie Islands some years ago, died at- Porirua on Wednesday last.

Dr Leriion, formerly Superintendent of Telegraphs, has not, wc regret lo state, yet recovered from his serious illness. He returned to Otaki yesterday from Auckland, but is still in a veryfeeble state.

The death is announced to-day of Mr Robert Craig, surveyor, a very old settler of Wellington. Mr Craig arrived hero in the ship Tyne on August 11th, 18-11, and in the following year, with six other men, left Wellington for Nelson in an open boat, the voynrm across taking nine days. Mr Craig, who •••.■a.s

seventy-seven years of age, resided in Little Pipitea street for many years, and leaves a grown-up family of throe daughters and two- sens. The funeral will leave his late residence to-morrow afternoon for St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral and thence to the Karori cemetery. There was a wedding of particular local interest (our correspondent writes) at Petone on Thursday, the contracting parties being Mr J. A. Allender and Miss A. Barber, both well-known m the district. The.ceremony was quietly performed at the residence of the bride’s parents by the Rev A. Thomson. The best man was Mr W. Allender, brother of the bridegroom, and the bride, u lie was given away by her cousin (Mr Edward Barber), of Wellington, was attended by her sister, Miss Olive Barber, who was -dressed in a dark bine silk blouse, and carried a shower bouquet. Tho bride was attired in electric blue, with a white tucked silk front, and wore a wreath of orange blossoms. ’lhe presents wore numerous and.appropriate.