PERSONAL

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11966, 20 June 1907, Page 3

PERSONAL

1 1 Dr. F.'Hay/.thts lospector-General of Mental* Hospitals, has ', been' in Nelson during* tbe last 1 few days'inspecting the Nelson Mental Hospital for the'n'rsfc time Ihis appointment as'successor'to thorlate Dr'McQyegor.iMg * _,_..*s° Mr J. Coombe, of the "Manawatu Standard," has^'marriedTMiss^C. A. Wright, of Palmerston North. Tbe death is announced of Mr Richard Kent' Baber, * one of Auckland's old settlers, Messrs Makgill andlMiddle'ton,'of Waiuku, have" purchased the Hora Hpra Estate of 9000 acres near Cambridge. The purchase money is stated to have been £30,000. It is repported that the condition cf Allan Adams, the Dunedin University centre-three-quarter, who was injured while playing football on June 8, has become serious. It is feared that Adams is bleeding internally, and there are little hopes held out for bis recovery. Mr G. P Donnelly has given £100 towards the cost of providing fa library for the Napier Old Men's Home. Miss ttraesey, a relative of Lord Brassey, was killed by a motor car at Malpas, Cheshire, while trying to save her dog from being run over. The Rev Charles Brown's election to the Presidency for 1908 of the Baptist Union will be immensely popular (says the "Christian World.") His choice was quite inevitable at an early date, on the ground both of his eminence as a preacheifland his splendid service to the denomination. f. The Rev T. Lord, of Horncastle, the oldest minister in England, has entered upon'his hundretb year. Last month he married a young couple at Horncastle. _ __ . ,_. t "ColonelJlsuala, ofithe Nicaraguan army, 'who cut downjthe British flag flyina over the house of Mr William Collins, an Englishman living at Salado, has been dismissed in disgrace from tbe army, and has been prohibited from visiting Puerto Uortez. B'Home papers record the death on tb"e 13th April of Mr John Stevenson Rownwee, a distinguished citizen of York, and member of the Society r.f Friends. He has gained an honorable repputation as an able and accurate historian. PMiss Vivien Chartree, the little Engilsh girl violinist, has scored a succession of triumphs during her tour of Italy. So popular did she become that, on some occasions, crowds stopped her in the streets, raising cheers for her and for England. •