MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 22, 3 June 1893, Page 507

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr Maughan Barnett’s playing is taking the hearts of the Napier folk by storm ;it is really magnificent. He played several selections on the organ (which has been thoroughly overhauled by Mr Aplin) on Sunday evening, nearly the whole of the large congregation remaining behind to listen to the glorious strains of music. Mr Barnett’s execution is of a most brilliant character.

Mr T. S. Weston (jun.), of Christchurch, has resigned his position as Secretary to his Honor, Mr Justice Denniston, and Mr Blair, of Wellington, has been appointed his successor, and takes up his duties on the Ist of next month.

Mr C. D. Kimbell met with a very nasty accident while out riding at Barry’s Bay, Christchurch, one day last week. He was thrown from his horse, and, as he fell, struck against a telegraph post, cutting his head and face severely. Mr R. Latter brought him in to the hospital where his wounds were attended to, and he is now on the way to recovery.

I HAVE much pleasure in heartily congratulating Mrs Donald McLean (nee Miss Alice Rowley), of Christchurch, who has passed the intermediate examination for the degree of Bachelor of Music. Mrs McLean is the first New Zealand student who has passed any section of a degree for music. As a pianiste and composer Miss Alice Rowley was well known in Christchurch, and the residents of Ashburton, where she now lives, are fortunate in having Mrs McLean as one of their townspeople.

The Dunedin prison staff presented Mrs Shirley, their late matron, with a tea and coffee service prior to her departure for Wellington, Mrs Shirley having been transferred to the Wellington prison. Mr Phillips, the gaoler, made the presentation with very kind remarks.

A large number of gentlemen met at the Grand Hotel, Dunedin, to bid Mr Ashcroft farewell before leaving for Wellington. Mr Ashcroft has been nineteen years in Dunedin, and at one time was editor of the 7‘itnes. Among the gentlemen present were the Hons. W. Downie Stewart and W. M. Bolt (M.L.C.’s), Hon. T. Fergus (M.H.R.), the Ven. Archdeacons Edwards and Fenton, Canon Howell, Messrs H. S. Fish, R. Wilson, G. L. Denniston, A. Maxwell Thornton, J. H. Park, Dr. Fitchett, Andrew Todd, W. Ibbotson, G. Fenwick, T. Blown, E. C. Reynolds, J. Ryley, J. Watson, R. H. Postlethwaite, T. Moodie, C. Butterworth, Lee Smith, and a number of others.

PICTONIONS will mourn over the departure of Mr H. M. Haslett, who is leaving them for * fresh fields and pastures new ’ in the rising district of Pahiatua, there to practise his profession. Mr Haslett, who has gone to Pahiatua to conduct an important case which is being heard there just now, will return to Picton to take leave of all his friends there ere settling down to work in bis new district.

Mr Hamilton Baillie, of the Bank of New Zealand, Fielding, is visiting his old home in Picton for a month. Being an old footballer, his friends thought to see hint playing on the side of the Waitohis in the recent cup matches, but the powers who reign supreme in the Rugby Union decreed otherwise, and ‘Hammy’ was fain to content himself with * barracking ’ for his old club.

Mr and Mrs Oliver Samuel loft last week on their trip to the Chicago Exhibition. A number of their friends met to wish them a farewell and a pleasant holiday, on the eve of their depar ture.