PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 14, 6 October 1909, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr. Peter 'Heyes, Commissioner of Trxes, has returned to Wellington from Auckland. Mr. S. S. Campbell, of Dargaville, is staying in town for a few days at the Royal Hotel. Mr. Alf. Harding, of Dargaville, who has been visiting town, left for home by Thursday’s train. Captain W. Cummings, harbour-mas-ter at Gisborne, arrived by the East Coast boat on Thursday. Word has been received that Mr Arthur M. Myers will leave London on his return to New Zealand on December 31 next. Mr. John G. Cobbe, of Feilding, arrived in town by the Main Trunk train on Wednesday, and put up at the Central Hotel. Mr. William Thompson, of Christchurch, arrived by the Main Trunk train on Thursday, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Captain R. J. Seddon and Mr. H. Davidson, of Wellington, arrived by the Main Trunk trainon Thursday and put up at the Royal Hotel. Mr. C. M. Montefiore, of the Ocean (Accident Insurance Company, is at present in Auckland, and is stopping at the Central Hotel. Mr. J. McKinnon, Mayor of Whangarei, and Mr. 11. W. Armstrong, who were in Auckland for the Premier’s reception, stayed at the Royal Hotel. Mr. Hjorring, of Wellington, arrived by the Main Trunk train on Thursday morning for the Premier’s reception. He put up at the Grand Hotel. Mr. P. L. Leslie, N.Z. manager for the Colonial Mutual Life Office, arrived by Thursday’s express from the South, and is staying at the Grand Hotel Mr. R. B. Grange, of Wellington, returned on Wednesday from a visit to Rotorua, in order to be present at the Premier’s reception. He stayed at the Grand Hotel. Mr William Jaques, who retired from the position of canning expert to the Government last month, has decided to settle in Motneka, and enter the fruit preserving industry. Admiral G. Winthrop, who died at Dover last August at the age of eightyeight years, saw active service in the first New Zealand War, as lieutenant. He retired in 1882. Major D. Cosgrove has received official communication from Mr. Archibald Lyle, manager of the Boy Scouts movement, recognising his appointment as chief scout for New Zealand. —(Press Association.) Colonel Collins, 1.5.0. (Secretary to the Treasury), arrived by the Main Trunk train last week and put up at the Star Hotel. He represented the Civil Service at the public reception to Sir Joseph Ward on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Bennett,, Mrs. Lane, and Mrs. Tipping, of Hastings, who have been on a holiday visit to Auckland, left on Thursday by the Rotorua train, and joined the Main Trunk express for home on Friday. Mr. Studholme, of Canterbury, arrived from the south on Tuesday. Mrs Studholme, who accompanied her Excellency Lady Plunkct to Rotorua, also returned with her ladyship. Mr and Mrs. Studholme put up at the Grand Hotel. Mrs Scott, wife of Dr. W. G. Scott, of Onehunga, died somewhat suddenly last week after a brief illness. The late Mrs. Scott was a daughter of the late Capt. Symonds, with whose name is so closely associated the early history of Auckland, and she took a deep and active interest in religious and benevolent work. Her husband and a grownup family of sons and daughters survive her. Mr. A. Brett, commodore of the New Zealand Power Boat Association, at the annual meeting last week, handed over a handsomely-framed photographic shield to Mr. H. Whitley for his father, Mr. W. S. Whitley, late commodore and founder of the Association. Commodore Brett, in making the presentation on behalf of the Association, referred to the eerviees rendered by Mr. W. S. Whitley, of whom the officers and members of the Association desired to show their

esteem and appreciation by that token. Air. Whitley’s term of office as commodore extended from the inception of the club in 1905 till last year. Mr. A. Cross, a popular settler of Opunake for the past twenty years, on leaving for Pukekohe on Thursday afternoon, was met by over fifty persons assembled in the Foresters’ Hall to bid him farewell. Mr. Conaglen, who presided, presented the departing settler with an illuminated address, and also a dressing-case for Mrs. Cross.