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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue II, 11 January 1902, Page 81

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Mr. J. L. Morrison, of Wellington, was in Auckland this week. Mr. Louisson, of Christchurch, was staying at Lake House, Ohinemutu, last week. The Dean of Waiapu and Mrs. Ilovell are spending a fortnight in Ormondville. Mrs. Kilgour, of Auckland, was a passenger for the South on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Rees, of Gisborne, are staying in Auckland at Glenalvon. Mrs. Lucas, of Blenheim, is visiting Mrs. J. Bond, at “Homewood,” Pelorus Sound. Mr. W. Carey has returned to Blenheim from a brief visit to Wellington. Mr McCullough and Mr Wingate, of Auckland, have returned home after a long tour of the thermal and lake districts. Mr and Mrs Rothschild, of Wellington, are visiting .Rotorua. Mr and Mrs Baxter, of Christchurch, are up in Auckland at present. Mr Lamb, of Wellington, has been on a visit to Auckland, staying at the Central Hotel. Mr Straghan, of Wanganui, is visiting the Hot Lakes. Mr and Mrs MacDonald, of Auckland, were at Rotorua last week, and put up at the Grand Hotel. Mr A. S. Biss and Miss Biss, of Wellington, are at present visiting Auckland, staying at the Star Hotel. Mr and Mrs Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, who were up in Auckland for the races, have returned home. Mr and Mrs Esam, of Marton, were amongst last week’s visitors to Auckland. Dr. and Mrs. Miekle, of Christchurch, are on a visit to Auckland. Mr Benjamin, of Wellington is staying in Auckland. The Bev. Dr. Sidey, of Napier, has, owing to ill-health, been obliged to resign his position as chairman of the Education Board. Mr. and Mrs. Denham and family are spending a few weeks at Sumner. Mr. 11. C. Godfrey, Christchurch, returned from New Plymouth and Nelson on Saturday. Mr., Mrs. and Miss Anstey, Feudalton, have gone to Hamner Plains for a week or two. X large number of New Plymouth men came up to Auckland for the races. Messrs A. Mclntosh, A. Richmond and J. W. Harding were amongst the guests at the Star Hotel in New Year week. The Rev. Scott West, late of St. David’s, Auckland, and now of Burwood, Sydney, will arrive in Auckland on a visit by the mail boat. Mrs. C. Watts, of Nelson, is the guest. of Mrs. Monro, at “Bank House,” Blenheim. Mr. and Mrs. J. Sharp, who have been spending Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Watts, at “Lansdowne,” left Blenheim on Friday to return to Nelson. Mrs James W. Bibby, of Waipawa, returned to New Zealand by the Papanui last week a.eer a nine months’ trip to England. The Hon. W. Jennings, M.L.C., was in Auckland last week, and was warmly welcomed by his many Auckland friends both in the printing and political world. The Board of Management of the Parnell Orphan Home desire to tender their many thanks to the proprietor of the “Graphic” (N.Z.) for the dolls he so kindly sent to the inmates. The Very Dev. Dean Grogan, of Napier, is leaving for a 12 months’ holiday in America, England and Ireland. The Rev. Father Goggan, of Wellington, will undertake his duties during his absence. Some visitors at present staying at the Lake Hotel, Takapuna, are Canon, Mrs. and the Misses Cole, Misses Horne, Mrs, King (Sydney). Misses Ward, Earl, Hamilton and Young.

Mr. Tangy*. aon of sir Richard Tangye, Birmingham, England. Is the guest of his sister, Mrs. John Chambers, who is staying at Lake Takapuna for the summer mouths.

Miss Dixon, who has been staving with Mrs. Lambic at “Birch Hill"’ for a week or two, Was in Blenheim this week on her way to “Manaroa," Pelorus Sound, where she will pay a visit to Mrs. Masefield,

Among the visitors at Waiwera Hotel during Christinas holidays were: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nathan, Mr., Mrs. and Miss tinss, Messrs. Ross (2), Dr. and Mrs. Parkes. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hanna, Mrs., Misses and Mr. Jackson, Mr, Mrs. and Misses Lcdingham, Mr, and Mrs. Edmund Mahony, Miss Devereux. Mrs. ('. Motion, Mrs. Proud. Mr. and Miss Sinclair, Messrs. Mowbray, D. Peacock, Blair and Halt

Mr C. E. Mseky, who is leaving Stratford to practise ns a solicitor in Wanganui, Was entertained by nis Stratford friends at a dinner at the “Silver Grid” on the evening of December 29th last. Mr T. E. Hummerton (Inglewood) presided and the vice-chairs were occupied by Dr. Carbery and Capt. Liardet. A large number were present, including several from) Whangamomona. Strathmore and Toko, ana a very pleasant evening was spent. Kipling, according to the cable, has appealed in his stirring verSo to the young Briton to recognise the necessity of Imperialism and accept conscription; and he adds a condemnation of the excessive devotion of his compatriots to cricket and football to the exclusion of exercises as manly and of Infinitely more value to the nation. His description of their "fawning on younger nations for men who can shoot and ride” sounds flattering to our ears, but as a fact it ia the necessity of the position rather than our recognition of the Importance of horsemanship and marksmanship that has acquired us some proficiency in both. We are every bit as likely to devote our spare energies to cricket and football as to neglect shooting and riding as our British brothers, and where, as in our cities, there is no immediate necessity for these requirements we do neglect them. Kipling’s appeal is almost as much addressed to us town dwellers as to the young men of Loudon or any big city, and if we don’t see that at the present the future will most certainly prove it. Why cannot our young men be persuaded to take up riding and shooting with the same zeal they display on the cricket or football field?

A story of miraculous rescue from the “jaws of death and mouth ol Hell,” in which Mr Marks, of tin Australian athletic team, figures as hero, has found its way Into several papers here and on the other side. Mr Murks is described as clutching at a brother athlete, Mr Oxlade, whose foot had slipped on the terrible brink of Hell’s Gate, Tikitere, and dragging him back from Hint, awful inferno. Mr Marks, who left Auckland for Sydney on Monday, declares that the story is n horribls stretch of somebody’s imagination. Mr Oxlade never slipped, and wat never clutched at by Mr Marks, or anybody else. He certainly was led rather nearer to the pit mouth" than was quite safe, through his passion for photography, but it only required a warning from some of his friends to withdraw him from danger. So says Mr Marks. Now. the point is, does he say so out of respect for fact or through sheer modesty” It i< a point worth investigation,although, such is the hero worshipping tendency among some of us. no contradiction of his heroism Mr Marks may offer is likely to entirely save him from his friends.

Miss Morrah (Wellington) is on a visit to Invcrcai„.ll; Miss Swninson and Miss Taylor are spending the holidays with friends and relations in the Manawatu and Rangitikei districts; Miss Butts is in Hawke's Day; Mrs Ewen and her daughter have paid a short visit to Napier over the New Year; Miss Fraser is at Palmerston North; Mrs Higginson and Mrs Tilley have gone to Blenheim: Mrs Balcombc Brown is spending Christmas with her people, Captain and

Mrs Baillie, at Faro, BMuheim; and Mrs Mackintosh is lift guest ot Mrs Fell, Pieton.

Amongst visitors to Wellington at present are Mr ami lsmay (England), who are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel., Mr Ismay'is one of the well-known' shipping flrru owning the White Star Line, and has eome out ■with his daughter to •’do” New Zealand. With them is Mr Geoffrey Drage, for some y&trs M.P. for Derby, and a great authority on matters connected with the poor, having represented England at several international conferences held at various Continental cities.

Other arrivals in .Wellington include the (Misses Reynolds, who returned by - the Papanui, after two years in the Old Country; Mr Pennefather, who is a frequent visitor to New Zealand; Miss Gertrude Martin, who has been studying music in England for two years and a-half; and Revs. A. Jacob and j. Denying, who have come out to assist the Bishop of Wellington in work throughout the diocese.

Other visitors to Wellington include Dr. and Mrs Innes, -from Blenheim; Mi's Barnicoat, from Wanganui; Mrs P. llulme, Blenheim; Mr and Mrs C. Howard, Pict on; Mrs C. Beauchamp, “An.xiwa,” Picton; Mrs and Miss Hughes, Napier; Miss Horne, who is at Lady Douglas’; Mr G< < rge, of the National Bank, Auckland, who has been transferred to Wellington, and has taken rooms at Mi’s Castendyke’s.

Among people who are staying with friends or relatives in Wellington at present are Mrs and Miss Browne (England), who are staying with Mrs Stowe, having come out to New Zealand to see Mrs Browne’s married daughter, Mrs Reginald Stowe; Mi’ Williams i Dorsetshire), who is on a visit to his sister, Mrs Wallis, at Bishopseourt; and Miss Greenfield (Blenheim), who has come over for Miss Alice Rose's wedding, and is the guest of Mrs Gilmer. 102, The Terrace.

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