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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 1, 4 January 1908, Page 50

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AUCKLAND PROVINCE. Mr. George Wilson, of the Provident Life Assurance Company, Auckland, is to spend a few weeks in Dunedin. , Mr. C.*E. Mackay, Mayor of Wanganui, is at present on a visit to Auckland. Sir George Clifford, Hon. J. D. Ormond, and Mr G. G. Stead are visitors to Summer meeting of the A.R.C. Miss Crerar and Miss May Crerar, of Napier, are on a Short visit to Auckland, and are staying at “Mount Nessing,” Grafton-road. i ? Mr. G. S. Munro, who was general manager of the Exhibition, has severed his connection with the public service, and leaves next month for England. The friends of Mr. G. S. Rowe, deputy bailiff for Auckland, will be glad to hear that he has resumed duty again after being away for the past month, suffering from gastric influenza. Mr. W. W. Earl, Orongo, Cambridge, who died last Saturday, was a brother of Dr. Guy Earl, of St. George’s Hospital, London, also nephew of Mrs. .Lonsdale Pritt, and Mrs. Frank Brodie, Remuera, Auckland. . . Mr John Duthie, former member for Wellington city in the House of Representatives, has returned from a trip to Great Britain, America, China, and Japan. Mr E. W. Cave, clerk of the Magi» trate’s Court at Waihi, has been appointed deputy-registrar of the Auckland Su> preme Court. Mr J. Mo Indoe, of Coro mandel, succeeds Mr Cave at Waihi. , News comes from Southport (Eng.) of the death of Mr. C. Rimmer, brother of Mr. S. L. P. Rimmer, of Auckland, The deceased was 54 years of age, and for several years resided in Auckland, during which time he was a member of the Beresford-Street choir. WELLDSTON PROVINCE. Sir K. Douglas is visiting friends in Marlborough. Mr. and Mrs. S. Fitzherbert (Feilding) are in Wellington for a few days. Mrs. and Miss Laing-Meason have gone to Sydney for a lengthy stay. Miss Molesworth (Melbourne) is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tolhurst (Wellington) for a few weeks. Mrs. M. Richmond and Miss Hursthouse are spending a fortnight in Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Lysaght (Hawera) are in Wellington for Christmas, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Stowe. Miss Mills (Wellington) is visiting Mrs. Adams at Langley Dak (Marlborough). '. -- ■ • Mr. and Mrs. Menteath (Wellington) have gone to Pelorus Sound for two or three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Brandon and the Missea Brandon have gone to tahautanui for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. A? Pearce and Miss Pearce (Wellington) are leaving for England in January. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Rawson have gone to D’Urville Island for, the holidays. They* will be back in Wellington during the second week in January. . _ Miss Cresswell (Englati) has arrived in Wellington! for a long visit to her sister(Mrs. Waterfield). -At present she is staying at Government House (Wellington), but later on she will visit Christchurch and probably Auckland. Mr. Waterfield is,- of course,'in attendance on his Excellency, and when the Vice-Regal movements are settled. Mrs. Waterfield and Miss Cresswell, will join him. Captain Lindsay and Mrs. Lindsay (England) arrived •in Wellington on Christmas Eve, after an absence of three or four years 'in England. They bring their baby son with them, and, after a long stay with Mrs.’Lindsay*s people (Mr and Mrs. E. J. Riddiford) at the Lower Hutt, they will go ; on south to Timaru, where Captain Lindsay has a good many relations. Deer-stalking has great attractions for Captain Lindsay, and he hopes to get a good deal of spot at Mr, XUddiford’s station, Te Awaite.