PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 12, 22 September 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES.

The Rev. G. Bond returned by the Main Trunk from Wellington on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Cliffe, London tourists, are at present staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. E. P. Levin, of Wellington, came up by the Main Trunk train on Thursday, and is staying at the Star Hotel. Mr. J. Graham Gow, Trade Commissioner, left Wellington by the s.s. Hauroto on Friday for Rarotonga and Tahiti. Mr. G. F. Tothill, of Invercargill, who is on a visit to the North, is at prepent in the Waikato, and is expected back in town on Saturday. Mr. George Nelson, of Napier, is at present in Auckland, staying at the Grand Hotel, having arrived by the Rotorua train on Thursday. Mr. J. R. Haywood, of Christchurch, •who has been in Auckland for the past week, returned South by the through train last Wednesday. Mr. A. R. Littleburg, of Wellington, is expected in Auckland by the through express on Saturday, and while here will put up at the Star Hotel. Messrs. P. W. and A. Eiby, of Timar>», who have been visiting Rotorua, came down by the express last week and are putting up at the Royal Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Campbell, of Dargaville, who have been staying at the ■Royal Hotel on a holiday visit to Auckland, returned home by Thursday’s train. A motion of condolence was passed at last week’s meeting of the Education Board to its chairman, Mr. 0. J. Parr, whose mother died a few days •go. Mr. Phelan (secretary of the Timber Workerss’ Union) left Dargaville last wk for Auckland, where the headquarters of the L'llion has been established. Mr. and Mrs. D. Mellor and Miss Mellor, of Gisborne, arrived by the Main Trunk train on Wednesday on a brief visit to Auckland, and are staying at the Star Hotel. Dr. Gratton Guinness, ot Devonport, who is an ex-resident of Waihi, is taking a brief holiday at Te Aroha. and paid a flying visit to Waihi on Thursday (writes our correspondent). Mr. B. C. Aston, chief chemist to the (Agricultural Department, who has been staying at the Grand Hotel for several ■days, left for Wellington by the Main Trunk train on Thursday. Messrs. F. J. Cox, of Melbourne, and A. E. Jackson, of Wellington, who have been stopping at the Grand Hotel for a few days, return >South by the Main Trunk train on Wednesday. Dr. Pollen, port health officer at Wellington, left on Friday on a six months' visit to England. Dr. F. Kemp

will act as port health officer at Wellington during his absence. Mr. and Mrs. de Beer, of Dunedin, who have been staying at the Grand since their return from the Islands, left by Thursday’s express for Rotorua, en route for Dunedin, via the Wanganui River. The Minister for Justice officially opened the new post office at Huntly on Friday afternoon. Mr. Thompson, who for several years has been on the Auckland telegraph staff, will be the first postmaster. Mr Hwang, Chinese Consul-General for New Zealand, arrived in Christchurch on Thursday, and called on the Mayor, On Friday he was welcomed at a publie meeting. On Saturday Mr. Hwang left for Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Strang, of Palmerston North, Mr. and Mrs. Ken. Duncan, of Wellington, and Mrs. Algar Williams, who -have been guests at the Grand Hotel, returned home by the Main Trunk train on Friday. Mr. H. W. Parr, of Messrs. Thos. Cook and Sons’ Melbourne staff, arrived by the Main Trunk train on Thursday from Wellington on a brief interchange visit to the local office. He will visit the Hot Lakes district before returning. Mr. B. Holben, secretary of the New Zealand Brass Bands’ Association, has been appointed supervisor for the Marlborough Jubilee band contest to be held during the first week in November (says the “Dominion”). The Rev. S. C. Entrican, of Warkworth, has been granted three months’ absence of leave by the Auckland Presbytery, on account of ill-health, and the Rev. A. Summerville has been appointed moderator of the charge for the time being. Dr. Wohlmann, Government balneolo--gist, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Wohlmann, came down from Rotorua on Thursday. They put up at the Star Hotel. On Friday Mr Wohlmann delivered a lecture at the Leys Institute. They returned to Rotorua on Monday. Two months’ extra leave of absence has been granted to Mr. Vincent Rice, secretary of the Auckland Education Board, and this will bring his holiday up to the end of the year, when he reaches the age of 65 years, and so retires from the position by effluxion of time. « Dr. Lenihan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, accompanied by the Rev. Father Edge, left by the Sydney boat on Monday to assist at the Catholic Congress, which opens at the end of the month. Monsignor O’Rielly, of Auckland, who is now in Sydney, will also be present. Captain and Mrs. W. G. Townsend Currie, of Christleton, Cheshire, wie-r have been stopping at the Grand Hotel, left by Thursday’s express en route to Wellington, via Rotorua and the Wanganui River. They leave Wellington on Friday next en route to England, via Australia, China and Japan. Dr. J. F. Rayner, of Wellington and Auckland, accompanied by Mr. Albert Rayner, of Buffalo, New York State, returned by the Ulimaroa to Wellington on Wednesday from a visit to America and Australia. They eame up by the Main Trunk line on Friday, and are staying at the Central Hotel. Mr H. F. von Haast, of Wellington, who returned on Wednesday from a visit to Sydney and Melbourne, and who has been inquiring into University matters that may prove useful to the New Zealand Senate, speaks very favourably of the work that is being done at Melbourne University by Professor Gilruth, till late New Zealand’s chief veterinarian. Auckland bandsmen will be pleased to hear that the well-known Drum-Major Rollands, who has seen 30 years’ service with the different bands in the South Island, and lately of the Christchurch Garrison Band, is visiting Auckland. Drum-Major Rolland was In Auckland some 12 years ago, and while here he used to lead the Newton Band, under Mr. Trussell, bandmaster then. Mr. James Smart was a few days ago made the recipient of an invalid’s chair by a number of friends, to commemorate the fact that he js the only survivor of the original directorate of the Auckland Gas Company. Mr. Smart was 45 years ago a prominent business man of Auckland, conducting a large business under the names of Cruickshank and Smart, and although unable to walk, still takes a keen interest in the affairs and progress of the city. Dr. Hyde was a passenger for Gisborne by the Whikare on Saturday. Mr H. J. Greenslade, accompanied by

Mrs. Greenslade, left for Waiwera on Saturday for a week’s stay. Lieut.-colonel A. Bauehop, C.M.G., Officer Commanding the Wellington district, is at present in Auckland on leave. Mr. Gresley Lukin, editor of the “Wellington Evening Post,” returned on Monday by the Ruapehu from attending the Press Conference in England. Mr. W. C. Kensington, Under-Secretary for Lands, is paying a Departmental visit to Auckland, and on Monday proceeded to the Piako Swamp on an inspection of the drainage and other works in progress there. '• Mr. hl. D. Mangos has been appointed deputy registrar of marriages, births, and deaths at Mount Cook, and Mr. J. T. Williams at Taumarunui. Mr. A. W. Ashwell will act as registrar at Raetihi, and Mr. R. Boyffe at Woodville. Mr E. K. O’Keeffe, who has been 27 years on the Auckland section of the railways as coaching foreman, has been transferred to Palmerston North, and left on Monday night. He will be replaced at Auckland by Mr Beck, foreman of the goods department, Auckland. The Rev. P. B. Fraser, of Lovell’s Flat, Otago, has been nominated for the Moderatorship of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand for 1910-11. The Rev. James H. Mackenzie, of Nelson, has withdrawn his name from nomination in token of his high regard for Mt. Fraser. We learn that Mr J. P. Campbell, who, before proceeding to Wellington, was for many years in practice here as a barrister and solicitor, has now returned to Auckland, and joined a legal firm in Wyndham-street, which will henceforth be known as “Thorne, Campbell and Thorne.” Three New Zealand candidates —Revs. P. B. Fraser, Alex. Whyte (Havelock), and Dr. Frank Dunlop (Invercargill)— have so far been nominated for the vacant chair of apologetics and systematic theology in Divinity Hall, in connection with the Presbyterian Church. —'Press Association. On Wednesday evening last week at the King-street Congregational Church, Dunedin, Mr. R, A. Gummer, who is about to take up his residence in Auckland, was presented with an autograph album and several handsomely bound volumes of poetry by the choir and congregation as a token of esteem. At a representative gathering last week of members of the Westport branch of the Institute of Engineers, Mr. W. Jonathan Dixon, district superintendent for the Westport Coal Company, was presented with the Institute’s gold emblem. The Mayor presided, and in the course of an appreciative speech referred to the excellent work done by Mr. Dixon in subduing the recent fire in the Westport Coal Company’s Millerton mine.—Press Association.

Mr. J. Thornton, headmaster of Te Ante College, was entertained at dinner last week by the old boys of the College. The Hon. A. T. Ngata, M.P., presided, and among the guests were Mr. Justice Cooper, Dr. Buck, M.P., and Dr. Pomare. The chairman presented Mr. Thornton with an autograph album and a substantial cheque on behalf of the old boys. He eulogised Mr. Thornton’s work on

behalf of the education of the Maori race, and speeches in a similar strain were made by Mr. Justice Cooper and Dr. Buck.—l’ress Association. Dr., Mrs and Miss Wohlmann returned to Rotorua by express. Dr. J. F. Brittain, or Gisborne, was a passenger from the East Coast port by the Victoria on Sunday and is staying at the Star Hotel.