Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue IX, 31 August 1901, Page 417

Personal Paragraphs.

Mr F. Richmond, of Blenheim, is spending a few days in Nelson.

Dr. Waitt has returned to Oatnaru after his trip to Christchurch. Mr D. B. Cruickshank, of Wellington, was in Auckland last week. Mr Maurice Passmore, of Auckland, is in Wellington on business. Miss Mills (Dunedin) is on a visit to Mrs C. C. Kettle. Mr G. 11. Swan, who has been a resident of Napier for forty years, and Miss Booth (Masterton) is staying with friends in Wellington. Miss Milly Taylor, of Mt. Albert, has gone on a visit to Napier.

Mr and Mrs Moss Davis are at present in Wellington. Dr. Whitelaw left Auckland by the Takapuna for Scotland, via the South. Mrs and Miss Fell, of Nelson, have gone to Wellington to see the opera. The Hon. Mr and Mrs Rolleston, of Christchurch, are staying in Wellington.

Mr and Mrs Peacock, of Ponsonby, Auckland, have gone to the Islands for a trip. Miss Dixon, of Mt. Albert, is at present on a visit to Te Awamutu. Mrs (Dr.) Skerman (Rangitikei) is staying in Wellington with Mrs Anson, The Terrace.

Miss May Whitelaw, of Ponsonby, Auckland, is on a visit to Whangama-

Mrs Nimmo and Miss Nimmo (Napier) arrived in Auckland by the Mararoa from the South. The Rev. J. C. and Mrs Andrew, of Wairarapa, are on a short visit to Nelson.

Mrs Jerram, of Napier, has been staying with her sister, Mrs Devore, of Ponsonby, Auckland. Miss Kempthorne and Miss Maginnity, of Nelson, have gone to Wellington to see the opera. /Mrs and Miss Denniston (Peel Forest) are staying with Mrs Wigram, Park Terrace, Christchurch. Mrs W. A. Moore (Dunedin) is on a visit to her mother, Mrs J. J. Kinsey, Merivale, with her little daughter. Mr. Harold Stow, Blenheim, has gone fiffif a trip to -Sydney, to complete his convalescence from typhoid fever.

Mr and Mrs Phil Myers have arrived in Wellington after their trip to England.

Mr, Mrs and Miss Buchanan (Little River) were in Christchurch during Grand National week.

Dr. Syme, formerly of Stawell, and now of Melbourne, was in Auckland last week. He returned to Australia by the Mararoa. ’

Mrs Douslin, of Blenheim (nee Miss Winnie Errington), is at present on a visit to Auckland, where she is a great favourite.

Mr J. Chadwick, of Hastings, has been appointed choirmaster of St. Matthew’s Church in that township, Mr 11. 11. Hunt having resigned.

Mr and Mrs Zeile have been welcomed home by their many Dunedin friends, after their tour of England. They returned by the Whakatane.

Mr and Mrs John Anderson (Christchurch) paid a visit to Wellington recently to see their son off to England by the Rimutaka.

Mr W. F. Crawford, Poverty Bay, Is expected to return to the colony by the White Star liner Medic, which left Liverpool on July 20th, and is due in Melbourne on September 3rd. Mr and Mrs Northcote (Highfield) and Mr and Mrs T. H. Lance (Horsley Downs) were the guests of Mr and Mrs Wilson, Cashmere, Christchurch, recently. Miss Beauchamp, of “Anikiwa,” Queen Charlotte’s Sound, and Miss Plaisted, of Christchurch, have been making a short visit to Mrs. Bull, in Blenheim.

Mr W. Brown and Mr W. 11. Gundry, of Dunedin, have returned South after interviewing the 'Colonial Treasurer with regard to the Audit Bill on behalf of the Incorporated Institute of accountant*.

Mr Mostyu Webb-Bowen, of the Eastern Extension Cable Co., who has been out East for several years, has been transferred to the Nelson cable station.

Mr and Mrs Pasley and the Misses Pasley, late of Gisborne, have decided to live in Nelson, and arrived there last week, where they are uow busy house-hunting. Mr Leslie Reynolds, engineer to th* Nelson Harbour Board, left Nelson last Tuesday after a visit of some weeks devoted to the preparation of his working plans for the improvement of the Nelson Harbour.

Mrs Powdrell (nee Miss Barnes, of Onehunga) has been on a visit to her people, but owing to an accident to her husband has returned rather suddenly to her home in Wellington. Miss Harrison, on severing her connection with the Tahora (Hindoo) school were presented with a purse of sovereigns as a token of esteem from her friends in the district and her late scholars.

Guy G. Mereweather, who was atone tin** well known in Ashburton and Christchurch, has been drowned in the Zambesi River while trying to rescue one of his comrades from a similar fate.

Mr McLaren, one of the staff of the Napier Post Office, who bus been recently transferred to Wellington, was presented before his departure by tho other members of the staff with a memento in the shape of a silver cigarMrs F. Barnett, of Fiji, with her sister, Miss Tilly Raddock, are spending a few weeks in Auckland, staying at “Bella Vista.”

The other evening Mr Knowles, jun., of Napier, who since the end of 1894 has eight times rescued people from death by drowning, was publicly presented by the Mayor with the silver medal and certificate of the Humane Society of New Zealand. Mr and Mrs Myers passed through Auckland to Wellington last week. They have been spending their honeymoon travelling after being married at Home.

Mr J. E. Coney, who has occupied the position of Chief Postmaster at the Thames for more than a quarter of a century, and has been in the service, forty-three years, will shortly retire on a pension.

Colonel Fraser, the Government Sergeant-at-Arms, has shown a slight improvement in health since his arrival at the Thames, but he is still in a low condition. Dr. Bond is in attendance, and we hope that under this medico’s care Colonel Fraser will rapidly improve in health.

was fifteen times Mayor, intends leaving soon to live at Hawera. Great regret will be felt at his departure, and his place will be difficult to fill. He always took great interest in everything that concerned the welfare of Napier, and it is mainly owing to his energy and perseverance that the town has its splendid Marine Parade. Both Mr and Mrs Swan have many friends by whom they will be greatly missed.

Residents of the North Shore (Auckland) will have pleasant memories ot Captain Mackenzie, R.N., who was in charge of the local forces for some time. The genial captain had a verypleasant trip across the Pacific, and very much enjoyed the scenery of the Canadian Pacific railway—Vancouver to Toronto. After Toronto Captain Mackenzie visited Niagara, Buffalo, and New York, sailing thence to England.

Amongst new arrivals to Wanganui is Mr O. N. Firth, who for the last eight years has been a resident of Napier, and more latterly connected with the Government Insurance Department, and who has accepted an appointment with Mr A. I). Willis, M.H.R., publisher, Wanganui. Mr Firth was a lieutenant in the Ranfurly Rifles, Napier, which position he has now resigned. His Napier friends gave him a very hearty sendoff.

A pleasing presentation was made at Cambridge last week, at a social

st the Presbyterian Church, the reeipient being Mr F. J. Brooks. Tbs Rev. Mr Erwin was in tbe chair, and made the presentation, which consisted of a number of handsomelybound volumes, with the following inscription: “Presented to Mr F. J. Brooks, by the members and adherents of Trinity Presbyterian Church, sis a token of esteem, and a mark of appreciation of his services as treasurer during a period of 25 years.” tn making the presentation Mr Erwin said the congregation were only doing themselves credit in giving to Mr Brooks some little remembrance as a token of the esteem in which he was held for his work’s sake. Mr Brooks, in replying, said he was completely overcome by the kindness shown, and all he could do was to thank them very sincerely. He would prize their gift as long as he lived. A musical programme was submitted.

Mr and Mrs Edmund Bell left Auckland by the Mararoa for Canada, via Sydney, where they intend to settle.

On the previous Saturday evening, Mr Edmund Bell was entertained at the Strand Cafe by his many friends, prior to leaving for Canada. The Chairman (Mr R. Cameron) said during Mr Bell’s 29 years’ residence in Auckland he had taken an active part in public matters, and the colony could ill afford to lose nim. Messrs D. B. McDonald, Graves Aickin, F. G. Ewington and Peter H. Oliphant, Thos. Buddle, E. W. Burton and Green spojte eulogistic-ally of Mr Bell. Mr Bell, responding, said he did not feel that he was leaving his friends in Auckland, as he would still be a citizen of the Empire. He wished NewZealand every prosperity, and, when in Canada, would always" think kindly of Auckland.