PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5557, 7 April 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL.

foil- Join'- Sec, cx-Prcmicr of New South Wales arrived in Auckland a few days ago, and is now .spending a holiday at Rotorua. Judge Haselden and Police Commissioner Dinnie are passengers from the South by the Mararoa, due at Wellington tills morning. An Adelaide cablegram slates that the Public I/brarv, Art Galley, and Museum then, will benefit to the extent of £05,000 under the will of Dr Morgan Thomas* MifoH S’i'evowrigb G Ivtly assistant M Central Public Library, has resigned her position owing to a family bereavement. Applications are to be called to fill tbo vacancy. Mr Massey, leader of the Opposition, leaves Christchurch for Dunedin today, ami delivers a political address at Naseby. Ho will probably (says a Press ' Association telegram) speak at Dunedin. A cable message states that Air Bold (Federal Brernior), tho Lord Mayor oi Melbourne and many prominent men were present at a reception given at Melbourne by the Union Company to Sir J. G Ward in his oflicial capacity as Postmaster-General of New Zealand. Pore Hilda, a prominent chief of the Ngatihaua tribe of Maoris, who was present ,'P Cambridge in connection with tho Maungatautari block dispute, died there rather suddenly yesterday. Deceased was a son of the clrof Buna To Katiae. A big tangi will be held at Tau w hare. Miss Maudo-Smith. the gifted young Now Zealand elocutionist, is to appear before a Wellington audience this evening. In tho course of Captain Scott Harden’s war entertainment at the town Hull she will recite a pcom on Die Japanese victories, entitled “Banzai Nippon,” by J. laddcll KellyAmong those present at the thirtysecond animal dinner of tho New York Press Club, held on February 13th last, at the Hotel Astor. were Mr 1. E. Donne, of tho Now Zealand ToliristDepartmont, and Mr T. G. Ramsay, of Melbourne. These gentlemen attended as the guests of Mr C. W. McMurran, a member of tho club. Tho Widows’ and Orphans’ Society presented Bro. George Leggett, who intends to visit the Old Country, with a gold watch, chain, and pendant, suitably inscribed. Air Leggett has been a member of the Order for thirty-two years, during much of which time he was trustee. The presentation was made by P.P.G.AI. Bro. Thomas McKenzie, in the presence of a largo gathering of brethren. Captain Scott Harden, the war correspondent from the Far Fast, who is now in Wellington, is a descendant of tho Stotts of'Harden, celebrated in the ballad lore of tho Scottish Borders. “ Willie ” Scott of Harden was the hero of James Hogg’s ballad, “ The Fray of Elibank,” and of the story, “ The Wife or the Wuddy,” in Wilson’s “Talcs of the Borders.” It fallows, from his connection with theScotts of Harden, that tho young war correspondent now in our midst is related to Sir Walter Scott, tho famous novelist and poet. Air Charles T. Eoberts, an old Wellington resident very well known amoim tho shipping community, died at the hospital yesterday morning. Mr Roberts was a partner for many years in a shipwrights’ and boatbuilding firm known as Pauli and Roberts, whoso skids and workshop once occupied the site of the To Are municipal baths at Clyde quay. After the firm dissolved, Air Roberts continued in business on his own account, and up till the time of his illness occupied nromises in Plimmer street, oft Alajoribanks street. Deceased, who was considered a very skilled tradesilian, was sixty-five years of age. He leaves a widow and family.