PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4883, 7 February 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. J. Palm; >r* Government Pomologlst for tho N orth Island, was in town yesterday.

Mr O’Meara, Mi. t 1.11.., has decided (says our covrespom lent) to coiumonco business at Pahiatua as an auctioneer. Sir Arthur Dougin 5, Under-Secretary for Defence, iia.s inf;. wmed the Govoruinent that lie intends' to resign his position in tho public sc twice. Mr J. Graham Go w, who has been appointed Trade Comr aissionor for New Zealand in South A frica, leaves for Capetown by the ste: vmcr Kent, now loading at Dunedin. Mr W. Smith, bass player, of the Wellington Garrison 13 usd, was taken seriously ill on Wednes day evening ao Masterton. Ho is suffering from _scyc.ro haemorrhage, of the and. is in a critical condition.

Application has been mado to the Rojui Humane Society of How Zealand for recognition of the br. Sivcry of Gaptain W. D. Reid, Aiarino Superintendent at Auckland, in coni n.ection with the wreck of the Elingauiib 3. Mr T. E. Walton, late proprietor of iho “Waimatc Witness,” M; uvaia, is now on the reporting staff o f the Natal ‘•Tiincs.” Ho intends to start a paper in one of tlio now districts. Air Y altou left New Zealand last A .ngust. Alisa Alanoramabai, of the Mukti Alisdon Homo (India), who is.at present visiting New Zealand, is the daughter of Pandita Ramafaai, superint evident of the mission, and is of Brahmin', descent. Sho is accompanied by Alias .Abrams, secretary of tho mission,.

Air N. Dunlop, of tho Nations’! Atutual Association, whoso death ocieitrrcd at Croft on on Thursday, was for many years in business at Geraldine, South Canterbury, where ho was well Icuown. Ho had boon in poor health for’ some time. Tho deceased leaves a wife, a son and three daughters. Air Napier Bell, C.E., who has been visiting Wairoa. to inspect and ailvise upon proposed harbour improven tents there, has completed his oxaminatikms, and left yesterday for Waikokopu on a similar mission. Air Bell’s report will bo presented to tho Wairoa Hart, nxur Board within tho next fow days. Sister Mary Josephine died last nigiht at St. Joseph’s Convent, after a vc try short illness. TJio deceased lady was born in Galway, and before taking t.h«’ veil wa.s a Aliss Ycrclon. Solemn High Alass will bo celebrated at tho Basilica, Hill street, this morning, for tho repeso of the good sister’s soul. Tho interment will tako place to-morrow afternoon at 2.15. A cable message from London announces tho death of tho Right Rev. Dr Abraham, aged oighty-nino years. Tho deceased arrived in New Zealand in 1350 as English master at St. John’s College, Auckland. A fow years later ho was mado Archdeacon of Waitemata, and was consecrated Bishop of Wellington in 1858, a position which ho retained for twelve years. "Air A. L. Abraham, of Palmerston North, is a nephow of tho deceased.

Tho Rev W. C. Waters, vicar of St. Peter’s, Willis street, has accepted tho living of Shornhoumc wirii Fring, Norfolk, England, which had been offered him by tho King. At a meeting of tho vestry of St. Peter’s yesterday. Air Waters’s resignation, to take effect in about throe months, was received. Tho vestry passed a resolution expressing regret at Air Waters’s retirement from the charge of St. Peter’s, a-position ho has