PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14280, 31 July 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL

A Press Association telegram' fron( We], lington'states that Mr John William Hall has been appointed Consul for Mexico at Auckland.

An Auckland messago states that Mre Besant, the well-known leader of the Theosophical movement, left for the south by. tho Rarawa yesterday afternoon. The illness of Mr M'Carthy, S.M, at Napier, is evidently regarded as likely to be prolonged. Mr W. P. James, S.M., who presided at tho court on Monday, incidentally remarked that lie had been instructed by the department to preside •at tho sitting of .the court in Napier that day and the next, and a relieving magistrate 1 would probably be appointed at the end of the week.

A well-known resident of Dunediij in Mt Harry P. Whinam leaves to-day for Christ' church, where he has been appointed to the position of Soutii Island traveller to the Continental Rubber Company..Mr Whinam has been associated with most of the pro' ductions of local amateur companies during the past few years, and Ilia services in that' direction will be much mi6sed.

-Victoria is happy in the new Govemoi whom she will receive from Scotland. At the dinner given at tho Scottish Liberal Club in Edinburgh on the occasion of his appointment, the general respect felt by Scotsmen for Sir Thomas . Gibson-Caj> michael was very well expressed both by the Master of Elibanlc and Lord Rosebery. The former, who was nnablo to be present, wrote: "We are lending Australia one of our best, an able and accomplished ■Scottish gentleman." Lord Rosobery avowed the hope that the Home Country was lending him to Australia for a very short period indeed, and summed up the personal feeling of thoso who Jtnow Sil Thomas in the remark, "Ho has the genius of friendship as he has the genius of art judgment." Lord Rosebery warmly commended the new Governor to the Caledonian Club in Melbourno, "of which," ho said, "1 am at'least an honorary menibor, Cltkl to which, I havo left a. recollection in a loving cup, which I trust he Will frequently drain in toasts to the Mother Country."