Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue XIII, 29 March 1902, Page 609

Personal Paragraphs.

Mr C. Major, Mayor of Hawera, has jnst spent a short holiday in Rotorua.

Mrs. and Miss Neave have returned to Christchurch after a pleasantvisit to Pelorus Sound. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon leave Christchurch next week for Japan, and thence to England. Mr. J. Lawson, Official Assignee of Auckland, has been on a short visit to New Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. O’Rorke and family have left for Auckland, where they have taken a home for the winter months. Miss Evans, of Gisborne, is paying a visit to Airs T. Moore, of Napier. Miss Sybil Mears has taken her passage in the Gothic for a short visit to England and the Continent. Miss Shaw, of Taradale, Hawke’s Bay, is staying at Wairoa. The Rev. E. F. Wood, who came out from England a short time ago, is staying in Napier. Mr. J. Freeth, with his wife, of Wellington, has been visiting his mother, Mrs. J, J. Freeth, of New Plymouth. Mr O. Nelson was the winner af the cup competed for recently by the members of the Hawke’s Bay Gun Club. Mrs. 11. Leatham and her three children have returned to New Plymouth, after their pleasant trip to Dunedin. Mr. B. Robinson, of the Union Bank of Australia, son of Judge Robinson, of Nelson, has been transferred from Nelson to Wellington.’ Mr. Buckleton, of Dunedin, is visiting his brother, Mr. J. Buckleton, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, New Plymouth.

Mrs. and Miss Lewin and Miss Pratt have gone on a tour to England and the Continent, and will spend some time in Germany, where Miss Lewin will study music. Her brother, Mr. Lance Lewin, is at present studying there.

Miss Francis, daughter of the late Colonel Francis, will shortly leave for England to be -present at the Coronation festivities, and it is rumoured may possibly be presented at court.

Mr. Peter Wood has bought Mr. G. Kettlewell’s pretty house in Chapelstreet. and will get possession immediately, as Mr. and Mrs. Kettlewell are leaving for Melbourne.

Mr. Harry Frost, of the South British Insurance Company, has left for Auckland. He will be much missed in athletic circles here. He received no less than three presentations: A purse of sovereigns from his insurance friends; from the Christchurch Football Club (of which he was one of the oldest members); a gold sovereign case, with gold in it; and a Russian leather pocket-book from the members of the Canterbury Rowing Club.

Mr. and Mrs. Alister Clark have left Christchurch for Australia, accompanied by Mrs. Heaton Rhodes, who is on her way to England via Vancouver, where she will remain during- Captain Rhodes’ absence at the war.

Arrivals in Wellington by the Warrimoo from Sydney include Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, who has been on a trip to Australia in connection with plague precautions; Mr and Mrs Beattie, who have been some time in Sydney, where Mr Beattie has been on a Railway Commission; Lieut. Smyth, R.N., who is joining H.M.s. Mildura; Dr. Huntley, Professor Williams and the Hon. Sir Francis Pakenham, of the British Diplomatic Service, who is now British Minister to Sweden and Norway.

Mr John Blundell, one of the proprietors of the Wellington “Evening Post,” and a prominent member of the Wellington Bowling Club, was given a farewell function on Wednesday night at the club’s pavilion. The vice-president, Mr Russell, proposed the health of the guest of the even-

ing, and wished him a “right royal” time at the Coronation festivities, a pleasant voyage and a safe return. On behalf of the students of the Victoria College, Wellington, Professor McLaurin presented Mr H. E. Nicholl with a handsome silver-mount-ed walking stick in recognition of the care he had bestowed in coaching the students in the production of a play at one of their entertainments recently. Among visistors to Wellington at present are Lady Alexander (England), who came out to the colony about Christmas time, and has since been doing the sights of the South Island; Captain Tryon, R.N., who Is spending a holiday in New Zealand; Colonel Holdsworth and Lieut. Hopkinson, of the Imperial Army, who have come out from Home with the object of purchasing remounts; Sir Francis and Lady Pakenham and their daughter, who came by the Warrimoo on a flying visit before leaving for South Africa; and Mr J. F. Pearson, managing director of an important English firm dealing largely with New Zealand products.

Visitors at the Grand Hotel, Ro torn*, this week hare been, Mesdames Sinclair, Sheriff, Adkins, Broadbridge, Fill, London; Adams, Marnam&rs, Amos, Sydney; Todd, Russell, America; Burton, Aitken; Sturt, Metcalf, Auckland; Hay, Canterbury; Peacock, Christchurch. The Misses Adams, Macnamara, Hickson, Sydney; Taylor, Morrison. O’Hagan, Rogers, Alexander, England; Barnett’, Wellington; Joshua, Toorak; Lavin, Auckland; Messrs Sinclair, Adkins, Nash, Ackland, Todd, Fell, Broadbridge, London; Adams, Fletcher, Macnamara, Amos, Sydney; Todd, Neale, Teddy, Foster, Wellington;! Longland, Taylor, Aitken, Sturt, Metcalf, Colonel Burton, Auckland;, Scott, Burgess, McDougall, Scotland; Sarkies, India; Russell, America; Hay, Canterbury; Hon. Peacock, Canterbury; Macnamara, Butler, Melbourne; Uloth, Ohaupo; Mucfarlane, Gisborne. Clarke's B 41 Pills are warranted to cure Gravel, Pains in ths back, and all kindred complaints. Fresfrom Mercury. Established upwards of 30 years. In boxes 4s Gd each, of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors throughoutthe World. Proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company. Lincoln England.