PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 7, 12 August 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr James Ferris, of the Waikato, leaves Auckland this week on a visit to Belfast. Ireland. Captain J. O'Sullivan, Director of Military Stores. Wellington, came up from the .South by the Rar.iwa last week. Mr. B. .1. Hamlin, who h is been stationmaster at I’okeno for over 20 years, hast been apointed to the Otahuhu station. Mr Thomas Coiiitnev. associate editor of the ‘'Sydney Daily Telegraph,” with Mrs. and Miss Courtney, i- visiting Auckland for fleet week. Mr Belcher has resigned the secretaryship of the Dunedin Wharf Labourers* Union, but retains the secretaryship of the Seamen’s Union. Mr. Kolleaton, who has been appointed Board of Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, leaves London by the Athenic. His headquarters will be in Wellington. Mr. A. F. Mackay, manager of the Kaiapoi aranch of tne Bank of New Zealand. accompanied by Mrs. Mackay, is visiting Auckland on a month's holiday. Mr. M. A. Philips, general manager in New Zealand for Henry W. Peabody and Co., of New York, is visiting Auckland for the fleet celebrations, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. The Rev. T. Evershed, M.A., of Devonport, has resigned the vicarship of Holy Trinity Church, on the grounds of illhealth. The resignation t akes from February I next. Major Robinson, whose term of engagement as Director of Engineer Services on the Staff of the New Zealand Defence Forces has now expired, will leave for England by the Arawa nex£ month. Another old colonist has passed away in the person of Mrs. Elizabeth Howell, widow of the. late Mr. James Howell, of the 70th Regiment. The deceased arrived in New Zealand on May 27th, 1862, in the ship Mendin. Major Robinson, whose term of engagement as Director of Engineer Services on the Staff of the New Zealand Defence Forces has now expired, will leave for England by the Arawa next month. CanOn Mac Murray, the Bishop’s Commissary, has appointed the Rev. T. J. Parry, M.A., who has been working on the home mission staff of the North of Auckland, as vicar of the parochial district of Mt. Albert euni-Avondale. Miss Akenei Hei, the first .State-regis-tered Maori nurse in the Dominion to qualify by examination, has been transferred from the Napier Hospital to St. Helens Maternity Home. Christchurch, where .she will undergo a further course of training.

The Rev. Father Moloney, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Boulcott-street, Wellington, has been transferred to Christchurch as successor to the late Rev. Father Marnane. His place at St. Mary’s will be taken by the Rev. Father Schaefer, formerly of Timaru. Mr. Alexander Burt, senior, managing director of the firm of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, Ltd., accompanied by his two daughters, arrived from Dunedin by the Ttorawa last week. While in Auckland they will be the guests of Mr. A. Burt, jun., of Shelly Beach-road. The “old boys” of the Auckland Grammar School rolled up in force last week in honour of Mr J. F. Sloman, 8.A., who recently retired from the school staff under the Superannuation Act, occasion being taken by the Old Boys’ Association to present him with a purse of sovereigns and a handsome illuminated address. Mr S. J. Nathan, of the firm of A. H. Nathan, Ltd., was a passenger by the Hauroto last week for Fiji, where he joins the Manuka for Vancouver. Mr Nathan crosses Canada and proceeds to England, after which he expects to travel for a time on the Continent. Ho will be away from Auckland for about eight or nine months. LONDON, July 3. Among the arrivals by the Tongariro last week was Mr. S. N. Ziman, of Auckland, the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1908. Mr. Ziman has been accepted' at Balliol College, Oxford, and will enter into residence there in October. He spent some days at Oxford last week, and saw the authorities of the College, and he is now staying with relatives in London. Mr. J. P. Butler, of Auckland, who arrived here last week, came Home via the All Red Route, making several detours into the U.S.A. His visit to Canada was a business one, and together with his brother (and partner), he arranged for the purchase of a quantity of saw-milling machinery. He has come to England to complete other purchases all in conection with their recently acquired forest property on the West Coast of the South Island. After completing this business, Mr. Butler intends visiting friends in Gloucestershire, and then a Continental trip, ending at Naples about the end of September. Thence he will travel via Suez to New Zealand. Mr. Thomas Ernest, of Auckland, and his wife and daughter's are visiting London on a pleasure trip. They arrived a week ago by the Tongariro, and they have been sight-seeing in the metropolis in the interval. Next week Mr. Ernest goes to Newcastle to see the Royal Agricultural Show, and his family to South Wales where he will join them later. If they decide to go back to New Zealand they will leave about October. Recent pallets at the High Commissioner’s office: —Mr. J. P. Laker (Wellington), Mr. Robert Bartley (Auckland), Mr. Percy Asser (Auckland), Mr. J. F. King (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ernest and daughters (Auckland), Mr. Leonard Caro (Christchurch), Mr. Wm. Hoff (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. J .W. Blake (Christchurch), Mr. E. F. Melvern and Mr. O. J. Melvern (Auckland), Mr. 11. R. Kemp (Taranaki), Mr. L. A. Waters (Christchurch), Mr. Alfred L. Ruff (Palmertson North), Mr. Chas. A. Kessall (Devonport), Mr. Jas. Aiken and Mr. A. Alien (Marton), Mr. M. Hale (Hunterville, Mr. J. Lillieo (Timaru), Mr. E. W. Walden (Dunedin), Mr. J. J. Bourke (Wellington), Mr. J. Sinclair (Wellington), Mr .Allan G. Duncan (Christchurch), Mr. E. Wilson and Mr. E. H. Wilson, jun. (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. t . B. Russell (Wellington), Mr. A. J. Hoc ton (Auckland), Mr. C. B. Light (Dannevirke). Mr. E. F. Godfrey (Dannevirke), Mr. H. Olive (Auckland'), Mr. R. Uroctor (Christchurch), Mr. E. J. EnBon (Nelson), Miss A. Keedwell (Greytown), Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Harris (Dunedin), Mr. L. D. Nathan and Dr. R. Nathan (Auckland), Mr. R. F. Fraser (Mosgiel), Mi" T. E. Ellis (Invercargill), Mr. ami Mrs. C. 11. Orchard and Miss V. L. Orchard (Christchurch), Mr. S. N. Ziman (Auckland), Mr. W. A. Gummer (Auckland). It is probable that Lord Dudley, Australia's new Governor-General, has never In all his life had such an ovation as he received at the farewell banquet tendered to him on Monday evening by the Australian “colony” in London. The mere mention of Lord' Dudley’s name was the signal for an outburst of applause, and when the new Governor-General rose to tespond to the toast of his health, the company made the banquet-hall ring with their cheers and " coo-ees.” The

applause as he got on his feet can only be described as “ tumultuous,” and minutes passed before his lordship stood any chance of making his voice heard. Lord! Dudley was genuinely moved by this magnificent reception. For some seconds he scarcely seemed able to frume his words. Throughout his speech he spoke with evident emotion, and the principal feature of his speech was its obvious sincerity. His is an emotional nature, and it was interesting to contrast him with another eminent guest, Lord Curzon, who sat as though hewn out of marble, the embodiment of coldness and restraint. Lord Dudley made an excellent impression on the Australians present, and the general opinion was that both he and Lady Dudley would prove extremely popular in the Commonwealth. A reception was held after the banquet, and Lord and Lady Dudley spent the rest of the evening in making the acquaintance of the Colonials present. A feature of the reception not common to all “ crushes ” of the kind was the absence of the bored look, and the prevailing spirit of high good humour. Lady Dudley stood at the top of the room for a long hour shaking hands with all and sundry. Dressed in a gown of soft clinging ivory-coloured silk, plainly made, yet striking in its simplicity, and wearing a handsome diamond coronet, she looked a queen. Her manner was charming and she quite won the hearts of those who were presented to her.