Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue II, 13 July 1901, Page 82

Personal Paragraphs.

The Bev. R. Wood, of Masterton, is paying* a short visit to Napier.

Miss Simeox is staying with Mrs Coleman, of the Barrack Hill, Napier.

Mr and Mrs De Lisle, of Gisborne, ire staying with relations in Napier.

Mr W. A. Moore (Dunedin) is in Christchurch this week.

Mr H. M. Hayward, of Wellington, ■vas in Christchurch last week. Mrs Gibson Turton (Dunedin) is on a visit to Mrs Tower, in Kensington. The Bishop of Nelson spent a few days in Wellington last week.

Miss B. Bayley (New Plymouth) is on a visit to Mrs Ssindes, Hamilton. Mr Stott, Inspector of National Bank, is at present in New Plymouth.

Mrs Munro, of Palmerston North, is staying with Mrs Kingdon, Nelson.

Mrs C. Cook, of Christchurch, is staying with friends in Hawke’s Bay.

Miss Filleul and Miss Lueas have returned to Nelson after a trip to Wellington and South. Mrs Julius (Christchurch) left for Timaru on Thursday on a visit to her daughter, Mrs Arthur Elworthy. Mrs Prouse, Miss'C. Prouse, and the Masters Prouse (2), returned to Wellington on Saturday night. Mr and Mrs Harris, of Pelorus Sound, are on a visit to Mrs Harris, of Nelson.

Mr and Mrs Barnicoat. of Richmond, Nelson, have gone to Wellington for the session.

Mrs J. H. Bond, who has been spending a few weeks in Picton, has returned to Pelorus Sound. Mr De Castro, of Nelson, was in Blenheim last week to attend a special Masonic function

Mrs Lyell has returned to Nelson after a pleasant trip to Melbourne and Sydney. The Rev. A. Holloway, of Westport, has been on a short visit to his people in Nelson, and bicycled back last week. Mrs Bond, who has been staying in Marlborough, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs Holdsworth, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to New Plymouth.

Mr and Mrs R. C. Hughes, who have been visiting Rotorua, have also returned.

Rev. Mr and Mrs Evans, New Plymouth, are on a short visit to Wellington and Christchurch. Mrs Pollen, of New Plymouth, is visiting her sister, Mrs Wilfred Rathbone, of Auckland.

Mrs Copelan. who has been on a short visit to Wellington, has returned to New Plymouth.

Mrs Oswin, who has been on a visit to her father. Mr Curl is, of Wellington, has returned to New Plymouth.

The Misses McLernon (Napier) spent last week with Mrs W. A. Graham. "The Lodge.’’ Dean Hovell. who went down to Wellington for a short time, has returned to Napier.

Mrs Stott, of Wellington is staying in Hawke's Bay with Mrs Frank Gordon.

Mrs Thomson, of Wairoa. has been staying in Napier with Mrs lloadley, of the Barrack Hill.

Mrs and Miss Nitnmo, of Napier, have been paying a visit to Wellington.

Mrs F. Wildinfg, “Fownhope, Opawa, gave a charming musical afternoon last week for Miss Laing-Meason.

Rev. Mr and Mrs Bennett have returned to New Plymouth, after their pleasant trip to Auckland.

Mr Fred Holdsworth, of the Telegraph Department, New Plymouth, has

been visiting Rotorua and Auckland on account of his health.

Mr G. Tabor, after passing his dental examinations in Wellington, has returned to New Plymouth. Miss A. Roehfort, matron of the Otaki Hospital, spent a short holiday in Nelson, and left on her return trip last Sunday. Mrs Carey, of Blenheim, is visiting Mr and Mrs Balfonr-Kinnear, at “Te Pukeroa,” near Kumeroa, Hawke’s Bay.

The Hon. Chas. Louisson, of Christchurch, arrived in Auckland by the ’Frisco mail steamer, and will take up his Parliamentary duties. Mr and Mrs Vernon (Christchurch) returned from Sydney after a very enjoyable trip. They have settled for the present at Mrs Everest's, Montrealstreet.

The Mayor (Mr Arthur E. G. Rhodes) and Mrs Rhodes were to have held a reception last week, but owing to the death of a cousin of Mrs Rhodes’ it was postponed.

Mr and Mrs Rennell and Mr S. Rennell have returned to New Plymouth after a pleasant trip to Auckland. Master Stanley Paul, of New Plymouth, who went to Auckland to witness the reception, has also returned to New Plymouth. Mis Copelan, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to her sister’s (Mrs Beauchamp, of New Plymouth).

Mrs Fenton and Mrs (Dr.) McCleland, of New Plymouth, have also returned from Wellington.

Mrs Hall, Miss A. Biggs, Miss A. Holford and Miss Jackson, all of whom have been visiting Wellington to witness the reception, have returned to New Plymouth. Mrs C. H. Forte, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs Perry, of Inglewood, has returned to her home in Wellington.

Miss Buchanan has returned to New Plymouth after her pleasant trip to Auckland, where she was the guest of Mrs Wilson Smith, Ponsonby.

Mrs E. M. Smith and Mr Dockrill (Mayor) and Mrs Dockrill have returned to New Plymouth after their enjoyable visit to Wellington.

Mrs Stanley Shaw and Mrs W. Shaw, who have been visiting Wellington, have returned to New Plymouth.

Miss Holdsworth has returned to her home in New Plymouth, after her very pleasant trip to Auckland, where she was the guest of Mrs Jones.

Mr G. Austen, of the ‘‘News’’ Office, New Plymouth, leaves for Napier shortly, where he joins the staff of the “Telegraph.” Mr and Mrs T. Wilford, of Lower Hutt, Wellington, arrived in Blenheim last week, and drove out to the Awatere to visit Mrs Mowat at “Altimarloch.”

Mrs H. C. Seymour and Miss Ethel Seymour, of “Tyntesfield,” near Blenheim, have been staying with Mrs Allen in Picton. Mrs Mclntire left Blenheim last week to visit Dr. and Mrs Cleghorn in Wanganui. She has let her house furnished to Mrs A. Green, of “Upeot,” during her absence.

Mr A. J. Johnston, who has been in charge of the A.M.P. Society’s office at Nelson during the absence of Mr Rishworth, returned to Wellington last week. Mr Rishworth has returned to Nelson after a trip to Sydney for the benefit of Ifis health.

Air Balfour H. Neill has passed the final examination of the Council of Legal Education, and will be called to the English Bar this month. The Rev. W. A. Kyd is representing the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland at the first General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, at Edinburgh. His stay is limited t« a couple of months. Dr. Grace (Wellington), has arrived in England after a sojourn in America, and is staying with relations in Kent. He will come up to town for the New Zealand dinner. Miss Phoebe Parsons was one of the four students selected from the Royal College of Music to take part in the recent performance of Professor Stanford's “Much Ado About Nothing,” at Covent Garden.

The Rev. James Tugs, of New Plymouth. left last week for Dunedin, whence he goes to Sydney and the Islands, for the benefit of his health.

Mr* Henry Gray and Miss D. Gray, who have been visiting Wanganui and Wellington, have returned to New Plymouth. Mr J. C. Malfroy, who was for some time back a eadet in. the New Plymouth Courthouse, passed through the same town last week, on transfer from Paeroa to Westport. Misses Humphries (2), who have been visiting their friends in Auckland, spent a few days with Mrs Ab. Goldwater before they returned to their home in Napier.

Mr and Mrs Teed have returned to New Plymouth after their visit to Auckland. Mrs Macklow, the former’s daughter, returned with them. Mr and Mrs Kellar, of New Plymouth, have been on a short visit to Wellington, but have now returned. The many friends of Mr Daveney, one of the Inglewood school staff, who has been in the hospital for some weeks, as a result of a serious accident which he sustained at the Waipuku Bridge, will be pleased to hear that he is able to be moved outside for an hour or two daily.

Mr. H. W. Earp-Thomas, dentist, has returned from America after a successful course of study in the higher branches of dentistry at the university, Philadelphia. The Count and Countess de Courte, (French Consul), are about to take a trip to Paris, and were entertained at a farewell dinner at the Empire Hotel by the foreign Consuls in Wellington on Thursday evening last. They will be greatly missed socially during their absence from New Zealand.

The Royal visitors were greatly charmed with New Zealand, and were much struck with the number of pretty faces at their various receptions. and also with the dresses of the New Zealand ladies who attended the various State dinners and festivities.

Mr A. C. Mac Diarmid. having received an appointment on the engineering staff of the New Zealand Shipping Company, left last. Friday morning to join the Papanui at Lyttelton.

Mr. A. M. Burns, of the Press Association, left Cable Bay, Nelson, for Wellington last week, where he will remain for the next six months. He and Mrs. Burns will be greatly missed at Cable Bay. Mr. and Mrs. G. Humphries, of Wellington, arrived at Cable Bay last week. Mr. J. Wood, of Christchurch, takes Mr. Burses’ place at the Government Insurance office, Nelson, for the three months the former is away. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wood have many friends in Nelson, who are glad to see them again.

Mr. and Mrs. Percy Adams and their son, Mr. Noel Adams, left Nelson en route for England on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Adams expect to be away about twelve months, but their son. who is going to Cambridge, will, of course, be absent much longer. Miss Allman Marchant (Dunedin), who has been staying with a friend in Chelsea, has, in view of her short stay in London, been sight-seeing and school-seeing most assiduously. Mr Arthur Royd, "the Australian baritone,” made his debut at the first of the Artists’ Popular Concerts at St. James’s Hall yesterday afternoon.

“Dio Possento,” from “Faust,” was his selection. The “Daily Telegraph” gays he has a powerful voice, but his method of production is not altogether satisfactory. Perhaps the most intferestiag pages (to New Zealanders) in the June number of the Australian “Review of Reviews” are those containing Mr Stead’s description of an interview with Mr 11. D: Lloyd, of Winetka, Illinois, the famous author of “Wealth Against Commonwealth." The interview and the chapter from Mr Lloyd's book. "Newest England: The Notes of a Democratic Traveller in New Zealand, with some Australian Comparisons.” reveal a mind that is completely enamoured of the legislative trend and achievements of this colony during the last ten years. Other articles in the number are the character sketches of Count Tolstoi, the paper by Sir Sandford Fleming on Postal Cable Development, and Mr Thomas Ewing on the Australian Census.

Mrs A. Ranwick and her niece. Miss Renwick Robertson, who left. Nelson last December, broke their homeward

journey at Ceylon and Cairo, spending a fortnight at. eaeh place. At Port Said Miss Robertson had a sharp attack of pneumonia. After her recovery they meandered through Italy, visiting the chief eities, and reached London, via Lucerne and Paris. 'They are now at 36, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, whence they will go North later to visit relations in Scotland. They will return to New Zealand before the end of the year. Mr and Mrs F. Black (Christchurch) had arrived in London just before the mail left after a year’s absence in Merthyr Tydfil, where the electric tramway constructed by Mr Black for the British Electric Traction Company is riinsrng very smoothly. To commemorate the harmouius relations, that existed between Mr Black and his staff, the members of the latter presented him last Saturday with a kodak with all the latest improvements, a silvermounted salad bowl, and a case of silver fruit knives and forks. The company finds an increase of its power necessary to cope with the orders for electric light that are pouring in upon it from all sorts oi businesses and people, many of them at the outset bitter opponents of the (traction and lighting scheme. Mr Black expects in a month or so to be despatched by the company on construction work in some other part of the country.

One can never he sure on which Continent to find Mr Henry Zander of Ashburton. When last heard of he was in Berlin. Last week he reappeared in London, cheery and sprightly as ever, after a four month’s sojourn in New York, whither he iiad gone to keep his eye on a paper pulp business in which he has an interest-. A brief interlude of pleasure at the French and Belgian capitals and “a Berlin” is Mr Zander’s cry. He has taken a flat for 12 months at 25 Meinecke Strasse in the west of Berlin, and an interest in a wholesale' linen business. During 1901 he hopes that his daughter and son will complete their education in foreign tongues, and in 1902 he will migrate to England. New Zealand will not again see him as a resident, though he may revisit the Antipodes as a bird of passage. There is quite a colony of Britishers always to be found at the English Club, Berlin, where tennis, golf, and billiards flourish and not infrequently Mr Zander comes across New Zealanders there. It is not long sinee he met the daughters of Mr W. Devenish Mears, of Christchurch, in the German capital.

Mr T. G. R. Blunt, M.A., the master of foreign languages at the Durham Grammar School, who has been appointed French and German professor at Canterbury College, sails with his wife, two children and a nurse in the Whakatane" on 20th June.

A very successful and smart little dance was given by Mrs. W. Fitzherbert at the Lower Hutt, Wellington, on Thursday night, and many of the Hutt ladies entertained large house parties for the night from town.

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Beetham and Miss Beetham, Brancepeth (Wairarapa), were among the visitors to Wellington for the recent festivities there in connection with the Royal visit.

Nurse Shappere, well-known in Dunedin and Timartt, has been awarded the insignia of the Red Cross, the highest distinction which can be granted to women working with British forces in the field. It ranks with the Victoria Cross.

Yesterdayis (Tuesday) mail from England brings me news of the severe illness of little Celia Dampier, the clever Auckland violinist, who is studying in London under Mr Kruse. When the mail left she was down with scarlet fever in the London Hospital. Prior to this sickness she was for some time far from well, and consequently on the day she played in public was not up to her usual form. Amongst those who went to Wellington to see festivities in honour of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York the following returned to Nelson last week: Mrs Wolfe, Misses F. Webb-Bowen, Heaps, Mules, Barnicoat, Kitson,Booth (2), Robinson, Burford. Coote (2), Driscoll, Reeves, Colonel Pitt, Mr and Mrs F. Trask, and Mr and Mrs H. Baigent. Mr Wilfred Stead, who was rather seriously hurt last week, is making good progress towards recovery. He was at Mr G. G. Stead's stud farm with the Ducal party, giving an exhibition of wire-fence jumping, when his horse fell and rolled on him, breaking his collarbone.

The sacred concert given by the Royal Marine Band, from the Royal Yacht Ophir, was a most enjoyable one, and the audience was much too large, even for our big Canterbury Hall. Seldom, if ever, has there been such a scramble for seats; people in their enthusiasm quite lost their heads, and walked over chairs and took seats already reserved, causing much annoyance to everybody, and many remained standing the whole time. Among those present were Mr and Mrs F. M. Wallace. Mrs. Miss C., and Mr A. Wilding. Mrs Morton Anderson, Mr C. W. Hill, Mrs Todd, Miss Bullen (England), Mr and Mrs H. O. D. Meares, Miss S. Meares, Dr. and Mrs Mickle, Mr and Mrs Bourne. Mr and Mrs Wardrop, Mr and Mrs T. Cowlishaw. Mrs C. and Mrs Cook, Professor and Misses Cook (2), Mrs and Miss K. Young, Miss Fairhurst, Mrs T. Garrard, Mr and Mrs Burns, Mrs Wilson, and numbers more.

Rev. F. W. Young, who is leaving Te Henui, New Plymouth, to take up his duties at Okato, was presented by Mrs D. Shuttleworth, on behalf of the congregation, with a handsome marble clock as a memento of the esteem in which he was held. The Ven. Archdeacon Govett and Rev. F. G. Evans,

and others, spoke in glowing terms, Mr Joung suitably responding. Miss Andrew (Mr Young's niece) was presented by Archdeacon Govett with a prayer and hymn book in a case on behalf of the teachers and girls of the Sunday School.

Among the many and varied excellent things comprised in the literary and pictorial menu of the Pall-Mall Magazine for June, the special bonne bouche may be held to be the Duke of Abruzzi’s account of the exploring expedition which he organised and led, in the Polar Star, into the Arctic re-g-ions, and which was successful last year in reaching by sledge journeys a point considerably farther north than that attained by Nansen. “An Unpublished Chppter in the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson" gives the general public to know of the curious, self-imposed struggle with poverty — terribly backed by ill-health—which he went through, alone and friendless, in San Francisco, until his father, forgiving his son’s obstinacy, renewed a generous monetary allowance. Picture lovers will find much to enjoy in Frederick Wedmore’s beautifully illustrated article on Chardin, the not well enough known painter of French mid-dle-class domesticity in the eighteenth century. Other articles of more general interest are supplied by “How the Welsh Water will Come to Birmingham,” “Actor-Managers and Their Work," a description of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and so on. The fiction, which does not now take as it used to do, an unduly large or prominent part in the number, is good in itself, and all the more likely to be appreciated by its limitation.