Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XXII, 28 November 1903, Page 46

Personal Paragraphs.

PUZZLE COMPETITION. The winner of the prize in the “Graphic” cousins’ puzzle competition is Cousin Cecil Moore, Papanui Road, Christchurch. There were no others of sufficient merit to justify a second prize.

Professor P.rown lectured at Whingarei on electricity last week. Mr. Justice Cooper takes the next sittings of the Napier Supreme Court. Mr and Mrs Murchison (Lake Coleridge) have gone to the Hamner Springs. Miss Nathan (Wellington) is leaving shortly on a visit to Rotorua. Archbishop Redwood visited the PaU merston Show on the opening day. Mr and Mrs W. Robinson (Cheviot) were in Christchurch during race week. Dr. and Mrs Elraslie (Christchurch) have gone on a visit to Dunedin. Miss Izard, of Wanganui, has returned from her visit to Christchurch. Archbishop Redwood is visiting Hawke’s Bay. The Rev. R. McCully, of Riverton, has been visiting Napier. Mr. Marchant, Timaru, is on a visit of business to New Plymouth. Mr and Mis John Ross, of Waikato, left last week for Dunedin. Mrs Bowen (Hawke’s Bay) is visiting friends in Wellington. Miss Jessie Seed (Wellington) has returned from Napier. Mr and Mrs Seaville, of Waingaro, are paying a short visit to Auckland. Mrs Janisch (Wanganui) is making a short stay in Wellington. Mrs Percy Huhne (Blenheim) is staying with Mrs Vennel, Wellington. Miss Robertson (Invercargill) has been staying with Mrs Appleby, Christchurch. Mr. Gillies, Auckland, is at present in New Plymouth. Mrs Alan Strang is at present in Wellington. Mr William Wilson, of Waverley, spent a few days in Wanganui last week. Mr and Mrs W. Anderson (Napier) are in Christchurch. Miss Fraser (Dunedin) is staying with Miss Deans, of Riccarton. Miss Russell (Hawke’s Bay) is visiting Mrs Heaton Rhodes, Christchurch. Mr John Oberton (Prebbleton) is at Hamner Springs. Mr W. Carey (Blenheim) is in .Picton recruiting, after an attack of influenza. Miss Morna Fell, Wellington, is visiting Miss Seymour in Picton. Mrs A. Blundell, of Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs Mellsopp, in Palmerston. Dr. de Clive Lowe went South by the Rarawa on Sunday. Mr R. Hobbs, chairman of the Education Board, is spending a few davs at Te Arolia. Captain D. W. J. Lake, Harbourmaster at Napier, arrived in Auckland from that port by the Westralia. Mr W. M. Kirkcaldy, of Dunedin, who has been staying at the Grand Hotel, left for the South on Monday. Mr. W. J. Napier left for Wellington by the s.s. Takapuna on Monday on professional business. Mr. Harold Russell, son of Sir William Russell, has undergone an operation for appendicitis. Mrs and Miss Brandon, who have been staying at Rotorua, returned to Wellington this week. Captain Joseph Seymour, of Kaipara, who has been visiting Fiji, returned to Auckland by the Taviuni. Mr G. Fenwick, managing director of the Otago “Daily Times,” is on a visit to Wellington. Air. W. K. Bishop, of the “Sydney Morning Herald” staff, is touring' New Zealand. The Rev. J. Belton, of Paeroa, is making slow but steady progress towards recovery. Mr. D. Shaw, of Otngo Univeristy, fills the Presbyterian pulpit at Ek?(ahuna during the summer vacation.

Dr. Pomare, Native Health Officer, arrived in Auckland by the Rarawa last week

Mr Stan. Harcourt, who has been spending a holiday at Wuirakie and the Hot Lakes, Lus returned to Wellington.

Mr Wallis is now second officer of the 8.8. Te Anau, Mr Harris having been granted holiday leave.

Mr and Mrs Coleridge are moving into their new house on Talevera Terrace, Wellington.

Mrs and Miss Trotter, wife and daughter of Captain Trotter, of the Indradevi, are making the round trip in her. Miss Johnston and Miss Ingles (Hawke’s Bay) have been staying with Mrs Grace, Wellington. Mr 11. Kersley, who has been oji a business visit to Sydney and Melbourne, returned to Wellington by the Mokoia. Dr. and Mrs Henry, of Wellington, are going for a holiday trip to the South Island. Miss Ina Stuart has gone to Palmerston for a few days. She is the guest of Mrs Walter Strang.

The Misses Peache (Mount Somers) are the guests of Dr. and Mrs Palmer, Christchurch. Mr and Mrs George Donelly (Napier) and Mr and Mrs Frank Perry were in Christchurch for the races. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Beddington, of England, are at present paying a visit to the Hot Lakes. Bishop and Mrs Wallis have returned to Wellington from a visit to the Rangitikei district. Miss Laura Beauchamp, of the Grove School, Pieton, has been spending, a week with friends in Wellington. Mrs J. T. Stewart, of Wanganui, is visiting friends in Wellington and Feilding. Mrs rl. G. Lethbridge (Wangaehu) has been staying at the Ladies’ Club in Wanganui. Mr. ami Mrs. O. Samuels, New Plymouth. are :<t present visiting ickland Mrs. Mtwk, New Plymouth, has left to join her husband at Hawera, where they intend to make their home. Mr. Eric Bayley, who left New Plymouth ia the early part of the year, is returning to Australia by the Omrah. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Jjewis, of Masterton, who were staying in Napier, have gone on to the Hot Lakes. , Misses M. L. Green (Clevedon) and Mr .R. Selby (Marsh Meadows) notified their resignations from service to the Education Board. The Rev, G. H. Cole, the Victorian policeman missionary, has left Wellington for Christchurch after a successful tour of the North Island. A private cable received in the South says that Miss Maud Beatty is returning to the colonies by tlie R.M.s. Ortona, which reached Sydney last week. The congregation of Knox Church, Invercargill, has decided to give its first call to the Rev. F. Dunlop, M.A., Ph.D., of Dunedin. The Wellington Methodist Synod has granted the Rev. F. W. Isitt leave to be without a pastoral charge for another year Mr MeDowall, chief engineer of the Rotokino. has been appointed to a similar position on the Manapouri, Mr Howarth taking his place. Probationers recommended by the Wellington Methodist Synod for ordination were the Revs- Haslam, Fitch, Wilson. Cook and Goodbehere. Dr. and Mrs Brugh, who are understood to be about to settle in the colony, arrived from London by the Tongariro, which reached Dunedin last week. Captain Barter, at one time captain of the liner Somerset, has succeeded to the position of Marine Superintendent of the Federal S.N. Co. of Sydney. .Miss Grace Paul, of New Plymouth, has been paying a visit to relatives in the Waikato, and is at present staying in Auckland. Mr O‘ Beale (Wellington) has bought “Goldiesbrae,” and intends to live there after his marriage, which will take place in December. Mr and Mrs Campbell (Wellington), who have been touring through Europe and America, returned by the San Francisco steamer. ’

Mr. and Mrs. M. Fraser and Mrs. Home, of New Plymouth, were in Auckland to attend Miss Walker's marriage to Mr. D. Robertson. Mrs A. E. Donne (Miss Jeanie Ramsay), of Wellington, went down to Invercargill to meet Miss Ada Crossley, and welcome her to New Zealand.

Mr and Mrs Beauchamp, who, with their family, have been spending some months in England, returned to Wellington by the Mokoia. Mrs. Buckleton, who has been visiting her relatives in Hamilton and Auckland, has returned to her home in New Plymouth. Mrs Janisch, of Wanganui, has returned from a visit to Wellington, and intends to leave New Zealand on a lecturing tour through America. Mrs Johnston and child have arrived from Perth. They intend spending the summer in Christchurch among their relations.

Mr and Mrs Beals arrived from San Francisco by the Sierra, and intend residing in Christchurch, where they will be welcomed by their numerous friends. Mr, and Mrs. Percy White and family, from Marton, are visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. T. White, of New Plymouth. Mrs (Dr.) Pollen (Wellington) lias gone to Palmerston for the show there. The Misses Fitzherbert and Stowe, of Wellington, also went up. Dr. and Mrs P. Marshall, of Dunedin, are in Wanganui for a two months’ visit. They are the guests of Mrs White, “Grove House,” St. John’s Hill. Captain Worsp, of Glen Murray, Waikato. is paying one of his periodical visits to town, and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Air Burt, of the well-known Dunedin foundry firm of A. and T. Burt, is at present in Auckland, staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. Charles Ranson, manager of the Northern Steamship Company, was a passenger to New Plymouth by the Rarawa bn Sunday.

Misses A. Murphy and A. Moore, the English journalists, who have been' visiting Rotorua, .have returned to Auckland, where they are staying at the Grand.

Mr. R. Monk, late M.ILR. for the Waitemata, has returned to Auckland from a visit to the Old Country. He was a passenger by the Zealandia from Sydney on Monday. Lieutenant Symons, who recently ret“rned from England, has taken charge of the Royal Engineers at Shelly Bay (Wellington), in succession to Lieutenant Smythe.

It is interesting to note that Mr. J. R. Amory, of the Frawley Dramatic Company, is a cousin of Miss May Goelet who has become the Duchess of R .rburgli.

Mr. E. Mulqueen, of the Suva staff of the Union S.S. Co., returned to the Islands by the Hauroto last week, after making a short visit to his relatives in this colony. Mr J. Mitchell, Marlborough, manager for the Christchurch Meat Company, Picton, has returned from a tour of the sheep farms in the Pelorus and Queen Charlotte Sounds.

News has been received from Sydney that Mr Ord Hume, who acted as judge at the recent band contest at Masterton, has accepted the eonductorship of the Sydney Municipal Band. Mrs H. Sarjeant, of Wanganui, is visiting her brothers, the Messrs Stewart, in Feilding, and intends to be present for the Palmerston North Show, held this week.

Air Michael Flurscheim, who is well known to Wellington, is returning from Germany to take up his residence there again, and will probably arrive next month.

Air I. Hyanis has resigned the treasurer, hip of the New Zealand Rugby Union on account of ill-health, ana Mr N. Galbraith has been appointed to take his place till the annual meeting. Airs O. Lewis, of Fordell, has gone to Wellington to meet Air and Airs Horace Wilson, who have just returned to New Zealand after an enjoyable trip to England and the Continent.

Mrs Ware and Aliss Ware, of Remuelra, Auckland, returned home last week after a most enjoyable trip to the Old Country and Europe extending over nearly eight months. Air Kenyon, a Alelbourne angler, who at intervals comes over to New Zealand for the fishing, has arrived in Auckland, and will go to Okoroire, most likely, for the sport to be obtained there. He was here twelve months ago. Colonel Burgess, late of the Royal Horse Artillery (India), who has been visiting Captain Stewart, Athenree, has been admitted to the Waihi Hospital, suffering from an old complaint—tropical enteritis.

Rabbi Goldstein has received a cable that his elder son has passed the final examination for the medical degree of the London University, and is now able to add to his other qualification that of M B. (London).

Air W. K. Bishop, who is travelling through New Zealand in the interests of the Sydney “Alorning Herald,” is at present in Wellington, where he will remain for a few davs before proceedin'/ North.

Air. G. W. Sampson, chief postmaster at Gisborne, has just left that town for a new posit ion in Greymouth, and last week he was given a very hearty sendoff by and numerous testimonials from the Gisborne staff and citizens.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gorton, who has been spending two or three months in the Argentine, with the view of taking up land there, is returning by the Tongariro. Mr Potts (Levin) is also a passenger- by the same steamer.

Air. \V. H. Price, late traffic manager at the Wellington office of the Union Steamship Company, has been promoted to the managership of the Greymouth office, Mr. W. G. Fraser, of the Lyttelton office, succeeding him at Wellington.

Mr. Afullions, an old Hamilton boy, has removed from Gisborne to an important position with a West Coast firm of builders. He recently won a fiveguinea prize at Gisborne for the bestdrawn architectural design. Sir Joseph Ward will open the Consumptive Sanatorium on the 11th pros. A number of Auckland members will bs invited to this ceremony. Sir Joseph will probably visit Rotorua before returning to Auckland.

The Auckland passengers by the Rimutaka, which is expected in New Zealand this week, are Air. and Miss Langridge, Air and Aliss Shakespear, Miss Swinder. and Messrs Alaelean and Maj or.

The Right Rev. Dr- Welldon, Canon of Westminster, and a former Bishop of Calcutta, is at present in Australia, and it is announced from Sydney that he will visit New Zealand before he goes Home again. Among the passengers who arrived at Dunedin from London by the Tongariro were the Hons. Messrs Barrington and Le Poer Trench, and Alajor Colnaghi, who intend touring the colony. The Hon. Air Barrington is accompanied by his wife.

Air. and Mrs. Purdie and family have taken up their residence in Auckland instead of Whangarei, having left the Northern township because of Mrs. Purdie’s ill-health. Air. Purdie retains charge of the schools in the Northern district.

Air. N. E. Bower, son of Captain Af. N. Bower, town clerk of Napier, lias been promoted to the post of first officer of the Kaipara, the New Zealand

Shipping Company’s new steamer, which is to leave London for New Zealand on December 5. The Rev. B. L. Thomas has been elected president of the Newtown Liberal and Labour Federation, and Mr T. Wallace secretary. Thia league gets its charter presented to it by the Premier before the end of the month.

Capt. Bull, Marine Superintendent of the Huddart, Parker Co., who arrived with Sir Rupert Clarke’s parts on Monday in order to pass his new yacht for Lloyd’s certificate, has decided to take a holiday in the South, and left by the Zealandia on Tuesday. The Rev. J. Belton, who is Methodist minister at Paeroa, has had a breakdown in his health, occasioned by the strain of working up for an examination and carrying on his parochial work at the same time. He is now improving. Mr Neil Douglas, superintendent of Western Australia railways, is spending a holiday trip in New Zealand. Part of his time has been spent in the South Island. After a short stay in Wellington he will proceed to Auckland, sailing from there for Sydney. Mr. James Cowan, of the literary section of the Tourist Department, has gone to Little River and Akaroa (Canterbury) to collect materials and information concerning the Maoris, for the guide book he has in preparation for the Government.

Lady Ranfurly entertained the crew of the lonic at dinner at Government House during their stay in port. After dinner a musical programme was gone through, and much appreciated by the men, the songs being well chosen. Mrs Donne was the principal vocalist.

An event that has been long expected occurred in the resignation of Mr McGowan, the Government Dairy Expert, reported by the Press Association from W'ellington. We understand that Mr McGowan intends going into business with a partner as a eheese and butter buyer in the Taranaki district. A well-known Dunedin engineer, Mr. Norman Kirkcaldy, is now engineer to a big company operating in Eastern Siberia, the company being half English and half Russian. He controls vast concessions, covering an area of about 6'30,000 acres, near the Manchurian frontier.

Sir William Russell, Mll.lt for Hawke’s Bay, will be in Auckland for the opening of the Veterans’ Home on December 10, and while here he will also attend the banquet which Mr. W. F. Massey’s friends will give the new Leader of the Opposition on his return home.

Messrs. Hewitt and Maerea, who were recently elected by the Auckland province as delegates to represent them at a conference of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers’ Associa tion, to be held in Wellington this week, left for New Plymouth by the Takapuna last week. Miss Seddon has received a very pretty plate of Doulton ware from the Doulton works as a memento of her visit, there two years ago. She was asked to write her name, so she did, and her signature appears on the plate, which has been forwarded to her from Anderson and Son, Wellington.

Mr. J. W. {-peers, who until lately had charge of the Grand r otel at Rotorua, and was for many years in the employ of the Huddart Parker Company, has taken over the management of the Masonic Hotel in Gisborne. Mr. Speers had the good fortune to leave the Elingamite a couple of trips before her wreck.

Dr. Horton, the newly-appointed medical superintendent to the Northern Wairoa Hospital, has taken up his quarters at Dargaville. He and Mrs. Horton were Welcomed by the residents at a social in their honour. The new hospital will in their honour. The new hospital was opened on the 21st Inst.

Amongst the successful candidates at the recent pharmaceutical examination is Mr. 11. Victor Long, son of Mr. J. F. Long, postmaster, Onehunga. Mr. Long served his apprenticeship with Mr. Graves Aickin, of Auckland, and was donbly fortunate in passing both sections at one sitting.

“Lloyd’s Geekly” prints Home inquiries for Eaward Mo e, who sailed for New Zealand from London in the Delphic in 1900 (his mother asks) ; Claudius Tuckey, who last wrote from Canterbury in 1895 (his sister Lilian asks) ; Had Mrs. Peter Coughlan (nee Ward),

who last wrote from Auckland in 18SG (brother Joseph asks). Mr. R. Parker, who conducted the great musical festival in Wellington recently, was last week presented with an address and a cheque for 100 guineas by those who took part in the festival, besides winch he will be appointed conductor of the musical union which the festival has been the means of bringing into existence.

Among the names of inventors who have applied for letters patent at the colonial oilice are the following Aucklanders : Arthur Ashcroft and Sidney ClarK (fuse-klndler for domestic purposes) ; Archibald J. McPharlin (improved bag for collection of kauri gum) ; W. B. and E. Brain, of Parnell (improved reversible electrical battery). Sir Donald Robertson, a distinguished political officer of the Indian Government, arrived in Auckland on Monday by the Zealandia, in quest of rest and health. He is accompanied by Lady Robertson and Messrs Robertson and Moore. They will probably go to Rotorua for some time. Sir Donald is receiving medical attention in Auckland. Miss Dorothy Evans has just received intimation that at the recent Trinity College examination held in Auckland she passed the junior examination with honours. The examiner could not publish her name in the Auckland lists as she had entered for examination early in the year in Dunedin, where the results have just been published. Mr Brookes, the popular manager of the Dresden Piano Company, Wellington, was on Saturday presented with an illuminated address, and a gold watch and chain. The presentation was from the employees, and general management staff. Mr Brookes’ health was drank with musical honours. The occasion was the completion of his 20 years’ service with the Company. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. S. Carlyon, of Gwavas,. accompanied by Mr. D. B. Hill, of Fernhill, Hawke’s Biy, travelled to Wellington via the Rimutaka ranges in their motor car recently. The chaffeur, Mr. Andrew Neilson, skilfully guided the motor over the steep and dangerous roads of the Rimutakas, and the only misadventure was a puncture received near the Lower Hutt.

Amongst recent callers at the Government Tourist office, Auckland, include the following:—Messrs A. C. Thompson, Timaru; H. Joosten, Timaru; W. C. Smail, Skagway, U.S.A.; James McKeehnie, San Francisco; Leslie R. Rex, Niue, Savage Island; Captain Worsley, R.N.R.; R. Humphrey, Timaru, just returned from tour round the world via the States; F. H. Shanks, Lautoka, Fiji; and ,C. D. Sherman, New York, U.S.A. His Lordship Bishop Lenihan has made the following changes in his diocesan clergy:—Rev. Fr. McGuinness, transferred from Onehunga to Parnell as curate; Fr. Toomey, of St. Benedict’s, curate at Onehunga; Rev. Fr. McMillan, a new arrival, curate at St. Benedict’s; Rev. Fr. Duffy, a new arrival, curate at the Sacred Heart parish, Ponsonby; Rev. Fr. Meagher, a new arrival, has been placed in charge o'f the new parish of Devonport, Takapuna, Northcote, etc.

We are advised by Messrs Thos. Cook and Son, tourist and shipping agents, that Sir Donald and Lady Robertson, of Mysore State, India, will shortly be visiting New Zealand on their way back to India after a tour of the world arranged by the Colombo agents of this well-known tourist firm. Sir Donald is the British Resident at the Mysore State and a man of considerable prominence there, holding the Order of Knight Commander of -the Star of India.

Professor Paul Privat-Deschenel, an eminent Frenchman, has just left Australia for India, after concluding his inquiries into the labour laws and conditions and railway systems* of Australia. and it is his intention to return to investigate similarly in New Zealand. It is understood that he is making these inquiries for the French Government, which is contemplating taking over some railways and introducing compulsory arbitration and old age pensions.

Mrs. Brophy, at one time well-known in Auckland as the wife of a former immigration officer, Ims returned to this city for a holiday. Se has been away in Africa for the past 14 years, aud she comes back hither with tales of the desolation iu the South of that con-

tinent. She has marked with surprise that the young people of this colony still turn their eyes that way, and warns them against leaving good homes and positions for the hardship and uncertainty of South Africa. Sir Rupert Clarke, accompanied by a party, including Messrs E. C. and R. Clarke, Mr Cruickshank (Federal Parliament), and Mr Scobie (Sir Rupert’s trainer), arrived by the Zealandia on Monday, and were present at the launching of the new yacht. They are all staying at the Grand Hotel, and it is likely that the party will go to Rotorua for some time, afterwards returning hither to join the yacht. She will remain in New Zealand waters for some time, and thence go to Sydney, via the Islands. There was a large gathering of Tamahere residents at Mr. J. Barugh's farm. Wartie, on Monday, to say farewell to Mr. and Mrs. A. T. F. Wheeler, who have sold their farm and intend visiting the Old Country. On behalf of the adherents of St. Stephen's Church, Mr. Arch. Willis presented Mr. Wheeler with two travelling bags and his wife with a greenstone brooch and a pair of silverbacked hair-brushes and comb. Mr. Wheeler leaves for England in February, but he will return and settle in the Auckland province. A representative gathering of citizens was held on Saturday evening at Coromandel, when Mr S. Inder, postmaster, who is leaving the district to take up duties as postmaster at Palmerston North, was presented with a handsome travelling case from the public of Coromandel as a mark of esteem. Mr J. B. Rockliff, J.P., made the presentation. Several gentlemen made speeches congratulating Mr Inder on his promotion. Mr Inder, replying, thanked his friends for their presentation and many kindly expressions.

The brethren of Lodge Coromandel met in the Masonic Hall last week to farewell Bro. S. Inder, P.M., who is leaving to take up duties as postmaster at Palmerston North. Bro. Andrew King, P.M., on behalf of Lodge Coromandel, presented Bro. Inder with a handsome Past Master jewel. In making the presentation, Bro. King referred to Bro. S. Inder’s long service in the Lodge, extending over a period of 23 years. Bro. Inder replied in feeling terms. A pleasant social gathering was held subsequently.

Mr. T. B. Bax, of Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, who recently put up a world’s record for club-swinging, has had a varied career. He arrived in this colony as mate of a Home barque 25'years ago, and since then he has been variously night-watchman and warder at hospitals, hotel-keeper, instructor of gymnastics, and most lately tobacconist and hairdresser. He has been an enthusiastic volunteer, and he has put up more • records in club-swinging for others to knock down than any other man in these colonies. His last record will be hard to beat. On Monday week the settlers of Pukemiro who formed themselves into a “surprise party ” visited the residence of Mrs V. H. Chapman, whose sister, Miss M. Saini, is about to be married. In the name of his fellow-settlers, Mr James R. Hetherington asked Miss Saini to accept a handsome gold watch as a token of the

respect and esteem in which she is held throughout the district, and as an earnest of their best wishes for her future health, liappinesa. and prosperity. After a graceful reply by Miss Saini, dancing was indulged in and kept up till an early hour, the guests fully enjoying Mr anil Mrs Chapman's hospitality.