Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VI, 9 February 1895, Page 127

Personal Paragraphs.

THE appointment of Bishop Cowie as Primate of New Zealand will be very popular. Bishop Cowie is a courteous and kindly gentleman, a good churchman, and of great administrative abilities. The news of his preferment has been exceedingly well received.

The friends of Mr Arthur Motley, of Wellington, will hope he gets that £1,200 damages from the railway company. Mr Motley, it will be remembered, was injured by the fall of a package being hoisted into a cart by which Mr Motley was passing at the time.

’ Miss] Williamson, whose portrait is here given, is the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs H. B. Williamson, of Wanganui, whose many friends in various parts of the

colony will be glad to learn of the young ladj’s creditable school record. Dux of the College for the year, she carried off first prizes in Latin, French, and German : her sister, Miss Amy Williamson, being also well to the fore in the prize list.

Mr Joseph W. Bradley, for nine years on the literary staff of. the Daily Telegraph, has been presented by his fellow workers with a set of Thomas Carlyle’s books. Mr L. J. Brient, in making the presentation, spoke in terms of warm approval of Mr Bradley’s long and creditable connection with the paper, and on behalf of the staff wished him success in bis new career. Mr Bradley has entered the service of the New Zealand Press Association.

Mr Douglas, the popular northern land agent, has the sincere sympathy of his fellow Aucklanders and many friends in other parts of the colony in the severe bereavement he has suffered in the loss of his wife. Mrs Douglas, who died last week, was an exceedingly kindly gentlewoman, and her loss will be severely felt, especially in Mount Eden district, where she resided.

Mr R. Thomson, M.H.R., is in Auckland again, having arrived from Whangarei on Wednesday last.

That famous Alpine climber, Mr A. M. Ross, has been on a visit to Auckland during the past week.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas McDonnell is suffering somewhat severely from an old wound received while in pursuit of Te Kooti at Taupapa in 1870. A Maori bullet splintered a dead tree near which Colonel McDonnell was standing, and the splinters inflicted an ugly wound on the head of the gallant officer. This old wound, after the fashion of such things, has now re-opened, and is giving its owner considerable pain.

Colonel Talbot Crosbie, of the 60th Rifles, arrived by the Ruapehu the other day, and will make a long and exhaustive tour of this colony.

The editor of the Triad, which has become so great a success in Wellington and Dunedin, is at present in Auckland, where he intends remaining until arrangements are completed for the publication of an Auckland edition of the Triad. If the venture does not succeed in Auckland as well as it has done in the South, it will certainly not be the fault of the editor, Mr Baeyertz.