AUCKLAND PROVINCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 25, 21 December 1907, Page 49

AUCKLAND PROVINCE.

Mrs. James Taylor, of Bardowie, Cambridge, is in Auckland on a visit. Miss Jessie Brooks is home in Cambridge for her Xmas holidays.

Mr G. W. S. Patterson returned to Auckland from the South last week. Mrs. Kels has returned to Gisborne from her trip to Napier. Miss Kate Hitchings has been staying with Mrs. Fred Parker in Gisborne. Mr. J. 11. Mackie left for the South by the Rarawa on Sunday. Mr. G. Buddle returned to Auckland by the Rotoiti from the South on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes-Graham, of Gisborne, leave shortly on a trip to England. Dr. R. H. Stopford was a passenger by the Rarawa on Sunday for Wellington. Mrs. E. Cave, of Waihi, is at present staying at the National Hotel, Cambridge. Mrs. Lusk, of Napier, and her family are at present in Gisborne, staying with Mrs. W. G. Rees at “The Bungalow.” Mr. Leslie Stewart, who has been on a visit to the Mother Country, returned to Auckland last week. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan are back in Gisborne from a trip to Rotorua and down the Wanganui River. Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael have returned to Gisborne from a nine months’ tour to England and the Continent. Mrs. Buckeridge left Gisborne on Saturday for a trip to England, to visit her mother. Mr. W. C. Somers, of the Auckland City Council, arrived from the South last week. Mr. W. E. Woodward, manager of the local branch of the Union Bank, returned from a trip South last week. Mr. John Fuller, junior, of Fullers’ Proprietary, returned from London via Sydney on Sunday. Miss E. Skeet left Cambridge last week en route to Wanganui. A number of friends were at the station to wish her bon voyage. Mr C. Ranson, general manager of the Northern Steamship Company, came up from Wellington by the Takapuna last week. Chief Detective Herbert arrived in Auckland by the Takapuna last week. He proceeds to Rotorua on a visit for the benefit of his health.

Miss Leyland, of Marine-parade, Ponsonby, who has been on an extended visit to England and the Continent, has returned to Auckland.

Mr. George Gow’, superintending engineer of the Northern Steamship Company. returned from the South by the Rarawa on Saturday last

Mr. T. L. Roberts’ trip Home has been postponed, writes our Gisborne correspondent. Mr. Roberts has gone to Oajnani to manage Mr. Menlove's estate •for Mr. John Roberts, Mr. Menlove having gone for a holiday on account of .delicate health. Last week Mr and Mrs Edwin Carr, of Pollen-street, Grey Lynn, celebrated their golden wedding. A social was given in the Ponsonby-road meetinghouse, and was attended by over 170 friends and relatives, including representatives of four generations.

The headmaster of King’s College (Mr. C. T. Major) reported at the annual speech day last week, that next year Mr. Sinclair, a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, would come out to Auckland to take charge of the classics at the school.

Mr. and Mrs. White, their son and daughter, arrived in Gisborne last week. Mr. White (North Canterbury) has just built a very fine house at Whataupoko, a suburb of Gisborne. It is built on a picked spot on a hill commanding one of the finest views in Gisborne. Mr. White has brought with him a very fine motorcar.

Mr. T. Mahony. President of the Auckland Institute of Architects, and Mr. G. H. Goldsboro’, of Messrs. Goldsboro’ and Wade, left Auckland hv the Takapuna last week, to •attend the r nnual conference of the Naw Zealand Institute

of Architects, which is held in Wellington.

The funeral of the late Mr. W. F. Hammond took place at Birkenhead on Sunday. The deceased, who was an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects, came out to New Zealand with his family in 1872. He was nt one time president of the Auckland Institute of Architects, and at his own expense drew up the plans for a high level bridge from Tizard’s Point to Shelly Beach. Among many competitors he was the successful architect for the laying out of the Western Park. He leaves a widow and a grown-up famiiy. Mr. J. B. Graham, after nearly forty years’ connection with the insurance business, has decided to devote the whole of his energies to the practice of his profession as a solicitor. The Commercial Union on his resignation from their Auckland branch has recognised his services in a manner that evidences their appreciation of his management. Mr. Horace Walker will now act as manager at Auckland, and Mr. Graham’s offices will be as heretofore in the Company’s buildings, Fort-street. The following promotions and transfers have been made in the Auckland police force:—-Constable Crean, of Kawakawa, lias been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and transferred to Newton; Constable O’Grady, of Avondale, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and transferred to Dunedin; Constable Cahill, of Hikurangi, replaces Constable Crean at Kawakawa; Constable Douglas, of Ponsbnby, replaces Constable Cahill, at Hikurangi; Constable Boag, of the City station, goes to Ponsonby, and Constable Mielnnes, of Waihi', takes charge of the Avondale station. The following guests have been staying at the Okoroire Thermal Springs Hotel: Mr. and Mrs. Denis O’Rorke and family, Sir Maurice O’Rorke, Miss F. Preece, Miss Atkinson, Mrs. Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Martin and family, Mrs. Alison, Misses Alison (2), Mr. ami Mrs. Alexander, Mr. S. Sellars, Mrs. Parkes, Mr. A. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. J. Currie, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Workman, Miss Workman, Miss A. Wilson, Auckland; Mr. S. H. Payse, Miss H. Payse, Te Aroha; Rev. Mr. Edgell, Matamata; Dr. Seville, Mr. Humphries, Morrinsville; Mr. J. Stevenson, Wellington; Mr. A. W. Crawford, West Australia; Mr. T. Keenan, Melbourne; Captain and' Mr. J. B. Kennedy, Edinburgh; Mr. J. Smith, Hamilton.

Mr. M. C. Davis, of West Australia, and his son, Major Karri Davis, who was a prominent figure in the Boer war, have been on a visit to the Auckland district. Major Davis was shut up in Ladysmith during that notable period when the town was invested by the Boer forces. He took part in the famous sortie on Gun Hill, during the siege, and still has in his possession the breechbolt of the Cin. gun so gallantly captured on that occasion. Major Davis was in Johannesburg on the occasion of the Jameson raid, and, with over a hundred others, was imprisoned. Ho and Colonel Wools-Sampson (now Sir A. Wools-Sampson, K.C.8.), were the only two of those thrown into prison who refused to sign a document giving them parole on certain conditions, and as the result of that refusal they were kept in gaol for fifteen months. Major Davis is to furnish a report to the Cape Government on the question of closer settlement. and he is at present studying the methods which have been adopted in this country.