PERSONAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13291, 29 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■. •■ -. .!•* : The Rev. WV Grant left for Napier last night, to attend the Hawke's Bay Presbytery meeting. Mr A. C- Stevenson, manager of Messrs Archibald Clark and Son's Auckland branch, was m Gisborne yesterday,, and went Sowth by last night's . steamer. Mr Geo. Wildish went -South by tho •v.s. Takapuna last evening to attend the monthly meetinc of tl>e Hawke's Bay Education Board. Speaking of the opening of the pantomime "80-Beep" m Auckland, the Herald states : "Miss Elsie Nicolas is chic and dainty ih the title-role. She has a winning personality, and a. charm-: ing light soprano voice, which she uses artistically: . -.. Mi* early won her way to popular favor, and her vocal work was roundly applauded." According to a' letter just received by an Auckland resident from a passenger on board tha Tasman, eh route to tho East. Madame, Nordica, who was suffering from neuritis, pleurisy, and the after-effects of 'vaccination, had to go ashore on Thursday Island and enter a hospital there. "m .consequence the singer's company his been detained. Mr F, |£*'P- C-resswell, the .member of Parliameiit recently imprisoned m South Africa, is a cdh'siutirig" mining engineer by pi-ofesf-ion. He '-'-went to th-3 Transvaal" m 1893, and there ho- held several appointments, being , a.t c\ie tinie manager of the Village Main Rsef. After ,th,o Avar he Met afoot' a 'white" labor experiment, which led' to his severing his connection with tl\e, company. Since then h-e hns been, a 6 rm adherent -„df the white-hibor jxilicy... He was a member of the Tr.an f svaa.l Parliament under the new constitution. .