PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5009, 6 July 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. H. Barnicoat, solicitor, of Wanganui, is at present in Wellington. Dr Do Ronzi and family arrived from Lyttelton yesterday by the Rotomaliaua. Inspector F. Wilson, of the Westland police district, is on a visit to Wellington. Mr Cohen, of the Wanganui legal firm of Watt and Cohen, is on a business visit to the city. Mr Samuel Brown returned from tho north on Saturday morning by the Rotoiti, accompanied by Mrs Brown. Mr Malcolm, of Bahiatua, a son of tho headmaster of the Christchurch Normal School, is now on a visit to Wellington. Amongst the guests at the Royal Oak Hotel arc Mr and Mrs F. Courage, of Christchurch, who arrived by the Hotoniahana yesterday morning. Mr J. J. Ramsay, who unsuccessfully contested the Taieri seat at tho general election last year, is seeking ejection to tho Otago .Education Board. Mr F. Nordon, of Christchurch, left on Saturday by tho Warrimoo for West Australia, where ho purposes spending a few weeks before returning to Now Zealand.

Mr Bulicn, a well-known runholdcr of the Kaikouras, is on a visit to Wellington this week. Ho is accompanied by his daughter and is staying at the Empire HotcJ.

A Press Association telegram from Wanganui states that tho old Maori chief Take Take, whose tatooed face has been photographed for tho illustrated papers probably more than that of any other native in New Zealand, is dead; aged S 3, Mr W. P. Cole, headmaster of the Levin school, who is leaving for T'e Horo, was on Saturday presented by the committee with a clock, in acknowledgment of his faithful service at the school during tho last nin© years. Mr F. W. Bradey, chairman of the Education Board, made tho presentation.

Air H. Buckland tho well-known landowner of Waikouaiti, and chairman of the Otago Provincial Executive of tho New Zealand Farmers’ Union, arrived in Wellington by tho Rotomahana yesterday. Hr Buckland will attend tho farmers’ conference to bo opened tomorrow. Several other southern delegates to the conference also arrived yesterday. Hr Buckland is staying at the Royal Oak.

“We learn (says the Otago Daily Times that a unanimous and hearty invitation has been extended to the Rev J. Urivin Spence, ex-moderator of the Synod of Otago and Southland, to undertake ministerial work in an important district in the North Island of New Zealand.” Mr Spence has been engaged in the ministry in Otago for over twenty years, first at Clinton, and more recently at Chalmers Church, Dunedin. Hobart papers announce the 88th birthday of the Archbishop of Hobart (Dr Murphy) as occurring on Juno 18tli. Tho Archbishop is credited with being the oldest and longest consecrated Roman Catholic prelate in the world, with, of course, the exception of his Holiness Pope Leo XHI. Dr Murphy was invested wih bishoprical honours in October of 1846, which date is about three years after the consecration of his Holiness as Archbishop of Damletta. The tall, imposing figure of the aged prelate—he is over 6ft in height—has been one of the most familiar objects in tho somnolent capital of Tasmania since 1864, when he arrived in the island colony. Captain Dunsford, who for thirteen or fourteen years was well known as Lloyds’ surveyor at Lyttelton, and who had since lived in retirement, died at Christchurch on Thursday, at the advanced age of 85 years. In the days when all eyes wore turned on Ballarat, Captain Dunsford established a goldbuying agency there and was the first person to treat with the ,miners on tho newly discovered fields. Ho afterwards, opened up a branch of the Bank of New South Wales at Ballarat- He returned to the sea a few years later, and commanded several vess-ii'i before he relinquished his calling to take over his appointment at Lyttelton. The deceased leaves two sons and three daughters, the former being Mr Frederick Dunsford, of the Government Life Insurance Department, and Captain H. Dunsford, of the Huddart, Parker service.