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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 115

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MUCH satisfaction is expressed that the health of the Countess of Glasgow still continues to improve. His Excellency the Governor has given up his proposed inland trip on account of the illness of Lady Glasgow. Mr A. J. McKenna, who has been Mayor of Patea for the past two years, has been re-elected unopposed. The many friends of Mr and Mrs Clouston, Blenheim, will be sorry to hear that their little daughter Zoe has sustained some injury through a fall, and has had to be taken to the Blenheim Hospital, where she now lies in a very critical state. Messrs Mcrrison and Hursthouse, Government inspectors of boilers, etc., have been inspecting the plant at the Picton workshops lately. Mr C. Wilson Hursthouse, of Waikato, has been on a visit to New Plymouth. The Hon. Thomas Thompson, Minister of Justice, visited the Children’s Flower Show in the Choral Hall, Auckland, on Saturday, and in the afternoon he was present at the Spring Carnival of the Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club in the Domain. The Rev. Father McKenna, who went to Auckland to attend the consecration of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, has returned to New Plymouth. Mrs Tunks who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs Bull, in Blenheim, is spending a few days in Picton before returning to her home in Tauranga. MESSRS Hursthouse and T. Humphries have been staying a few days in New Plymouth. The employees of Messrs E. Porter and Co., Auckland, presented Mr James Robertson with a biscuit jar and cake basket, suitably engraved, as a recognition of the esteem and goodwill in which he was held by his fellow-employees during the fourteen years they bad worked together. Mr Geo. Coleman made the presentation. The Reading Society (Picton) had a good audience for Friday night. * Hamlet’ was finished, and the Society resolved to read * The Rivals ’ at their next meeting. Mr J. Harkness, M.A.,has resigned the headmastership of the Oamaru Boys’ High School. He had nearly completed fourteen years’ service in that position, and his loss will be much felt. Miss Guthrie-Smith, of Poverty Bay, is at present staying with her brother in Hawke’s Bay. The Rev. W. Morley has left Auckland for New Plymouth. MR D. W. Duthie, manager of the National Bank, Auckland, was a passenger to Wellington by the ‘ Mahinapua. ’ Mr A. Wall, who was for some years a master at the Wellington College, went home by the last trip of the • Rimutaka’ to study medicine. Within 24 hours of his arrival in London he went in for an examination, and gained a /'so entrance scholarship to Guy’s Hospital. Mr G. Anderson, the late Deputy-Master of the Melbourne Mint, died recently, aged 77 years. He represented Glasgow in the House of Commons for many years. Mr and Mrs Clark, of the Mayfield School, were pleasantly entertained by their friends on the occasion of their removal to Woodside, Manurewa, on November 17. The function took the form of tea and concert, to

which about 150 guests were invited, the tables being presided over by Mesdames Smith, Horton, Wilson, sen., A. Geddis, Freeman, and Roberts. At the concert Mr T. B Smith, chairman of the school committee, presided. A long programme was gone through. Miss Heron, Mesdames Clark, Goldie, Heron, and Geddis, and Messrs Clark, A. M Wilson, John Wilson. Ch. Wilson, H. Morgan, and Coates taking part. During the evening the chairman, on behalf of the residents, presented Mr Clark with a handsome marble timepiece, and his wife with a silver cake basket Dr. Hughes, late partner of Dr. Moore, Napier, has commenced practice in Gisborne. MR Snodgrass, manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Blenheim, has been granted a short leave, and during his absence his place will be filled by Mr Anderson, who is lately from Sydney. Mr J. B. Roy and Mr T. Furlong (jun.) have been nominated for the New Plymouth mayoralty. Mr E. Rutherford, M.A , a Havelock (Marlborough) boy, was lately chosen to read a paper on • A Method of Detecting Electro Magnetic Waves at the annual meeting of the British Association at Liverpool. Mr J. T. Dumbell, the Government Auditor, is making his usual half yearly visit to New Plymouth. Mr A. Duncan, the Deputy Public Trustee, has been on a visit to Taranaki inquiring into the grievance of the West Coast Native land lease holders. Inspector McGovern, of Taranaki, is at present on a tour of inspection in the Mokau district. Mr J. Stranchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Taranaki, is making a visit to the special settlements in the district in order to report on them. Mrs Bull, who has been an invalid for some time past in Blenheim, is now quite convalescent, and is spending a few days in Picton. Her friends are sending her congratulations on her recovery. Mr James Purnell, Town Clerk, Wanganui, and a champion rifle shot of the colony, intends to take a trip Home to compete at the English National Meeting at Bisley. Miss Borlase.ol Wellington, is paying a visit to Mrs (Dr.) Leatbam, of New Plymouth. Mr C. H. Mills, M.H.R., is being enthusiastically received at all the places in Marlborough where he has delivered political addresses, so say his friends. Mr Neville Thornton, the well-known scenic artist, has written his life adventures in Australia, in which some very exciting incidents aie described. Miss Blundell, of Wellington, is staying with Mrs Thomson in New Plymouth. Mr C. Horne, second son of the late Dr. Horne, is paying a short visit to his mother in Blenheim before leaving for Western Australia. Miss Harris (Picton) returned home from the Pelorus Sound via Havelock on Saturday. Picton people are all glad to see her back again. Mr Perham, C.E., of the Government Engineering Staff, has been visiting Opunake with a view to seeing what can be done towards reinstating the jetty there. Miss Humphries, of New Plymouth, has gone to Napier to stay with Mr and Mrs T. Humphries and with Mrs G. Beamish. Miss Kitto (Christchurch), who has lately been visiting Mrs Fell in Picton, left on Saturday morning for Wellington. Mr Bass, the popular station-master at New Plymouth, left for his new post at Onehunga on Tuesday, November 24th, Mr Aickeu, his successor, having arrived. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Rathbone have arrived in Auckland, looking very well after their trip Home. Mrs and Miss Glasgow (Nelson) have gone to Wellington on a visit. Sir James Hector spent a few days in Nelson last week. Miss Mules has returned toiler home in Nelson after a pleasant visit to the West Coast. Mrs and the Misses Fell (two), Nelson, have gone to Wellington to see the Exhibition. MissG. PITT has returned to Nelson after a trip of several months to Sydney and Hobart, where she spent an enjoyable time. Miss Turner (Patea) is the guest of Mrs A. Jones, Bronte-street. Mrs Maurice Richmond (Wellington) is staying with Mrs A. Atkinson Nelson. Mr Cecil Duff, of the Union Company's ‘ Taviuui,’ is spending a short holiday with his parents at Stoke, near Nelson. Mrs W. Atkinson has returned to Nelson from the North Island, where she has been visiting friends

Mr F. Trask has been elected Mayor of Nelson for the seventh time.

Captain Sargent hospitably entertained some friends on board the ship • Pleione ’ in Nelson Harbour on Tuesday evening. Music and dancing were the chief order of events, and a most pleasant time was spent. The Misses Edwards (three), Webb-Bowen (two), Hubbard, Messrs Catley, W ashbourne, and others were present.

Mr and Mrs Mcßae, Nelson, have gone to Wellington for a visit.

The foundation stone of the new Baptist Church, Nelson, was laid on Wednesday afternoon by the Rev. D. Dolamore.

Mrs and Miss Windsor, who have been on a pleasant four months’ visit to Sydney, returned to their Auckland home last week.