PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7025, 13 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONALIA

The Rev. Father Herbert returned by Hu, Mamma .yesterday from Sydney.

Mrs Lindsay, of Wanganui, was vp* lerdav appointed matron at the Wungauui Orpluuilgt-.—Press Association. Mr ami Mrs, Scott, of Sydney, who have been on a vis it to Wellington, will luturn to Australia by tho Manuka tomorro w.

Mr 1. A. Shields, a director of the P. and 0. Company, loft Wellington by tho Mahn Trunk express on Tuesday on Uis way to Auckland.

Mr J. W. Stewart, of Auckland, was a passenger by tlio Marama yesterday from Sydney, as also wa.s M r A J. Hordern, of the linn of Mcsurs Hordern Bros., Sydney,

A* Press message states that tho Wanganui (Hospital Board yesterday appointed Dr .lames E-eid, ot Mongouui, to the position of house surgeon at the hospital.

Herr Bcnno Schorek was a passenger from Australia to South Africa last month bv tho Miltiadcs. Ho returns in March to direct Madame Carreno s tour of the colonial cities. Captain McLean, of tho Waihora, which is at present out of commission at Svdnev owing to the coal strike, arrived hero yesterday by the Marama on a holiday vUit. He is to leave for Auckland to-day.

Tho Prime Minister (Sir J. G. Ward), Lady Ward and family returned from Invercargill yesterday morning. Sir Joseph will remain for ten days in Wellington. after which he hopes to spend a holiday in. one of the Southern summer resorts.

Mr and Mrs T. W. Eonfchorne, of Petonc, accompanied by Miss and Master Bonthorne. will leave Wellington on tho 2ist instant by tho Ulimaroa for Sydney in order to catch the Orient liner Osterley, which leaves for London on February 10th.

Miss K. Alma "Wooton, who for eleven years has been lady superintendent al Auckland Hospital, has tendered her resignation owing to ill-health. The Hospital Board received her resignation with dc-2p regret, and gave her six ■months' leave of absence on full pay. Commissioner and Mrs Hay, of the Salvation Army, will arrive at the Bluff on Monday next, and will commence their lour ot* tho Dominion at Invercargill tluit evening. They will be accompanied by Lieiit.-CoJonel Burtonshaw, tho 'Training Home Principal, and Adjutant Jurio, the Commissioner's priviUte secretary. The Magisterial duties at Wellington, in view of Dr McArthur's early departure ior England, have been, slightly rearranged. Dr McArthur will take tho .criminal work for the next fortnight, .and Mr TV. G. Riddell will preside over the civil sittings, so that tho former may bo free from any reserved judgments and adjourned business.

A cable message, received by the Rev. S. J. Garlick, of Lower Hurt, intimates that his son, Mr F. Garlick, had passed the London Board of Trade's examination for a certificate as chief engineer. For some months past Mr Garlick has been a student at a marine engineer's institution, controlled by Mr B-attle, at one time a Petone railway workshop© .employee. Messrs Johnston and Co., local agents for the P. and O. Company, advise that among tho passengers booked by tho 11,000 tons liner Malwa. which is to sail from Auckland on Februairy 16th for London, aro the Hon- Mr and Mrs Loms*son (of Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Walter Johnston and Miss Coleridge (of WeTirngton). Hon. Seymour Thorne George" Mrs and Miss Thorne George, Mbs Fox, (of Rotorua), and Mrs Malcolm Ross (of Wellington). The death is announced at yesterday morning of Mr Philip McCarthy, farmer, a widely known colonist who settled on the West Coast about 1865. Ho loft Westland about twentyfive years ago for Manaia, where he had resided ever since. Tho lato Mr McCarthy was associated at Charleston, West Coast, with tho Argylo Water Race, which he was manager of for several years. The interment will take place at Manaia to-morrow. He leaves a largo grown-up family. Mr C, M. McCarthy, hotel-*keeper, Wanganui, and Mr Bernard McCarthy, solicitor, Hawera, are eons of tho deceased. On January 4th the Rev. Dither O'Shea, Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Wellington, visited the Stoke Orphanage to install the new manager and matron, Mr and Mrs Flaherty (says the Nelson ‘'Colonist"). Tho Rev. Father Clancy, for many .years manager of the institution, was also present. Father O'Shea spoke in the highest terms of all ho saw and heard of the children and the Orphanage, and said h© felt sure that under tho new management the future of the school would give ©very Satisfaction to those interested in the good work carried on therein.