PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr E. D. Benjamin went to Gisborne yesterday hy the Manuka. Mr F. Mander, M.H.R., arrived in Auckland from the North by the Ngapuhi last night. Mr \V. Rockstraw, of the Wellington postal staff, is being transferred tc Auckland. Mr P. C. Brennan was yesterday appointed storekeeper to the Auckland Harbour Board. The death occurred yesterday of Mn Margaret Kelly, an oW. resident of Waikumete, at the age oi 87 years. Mr and Mrs J. L. R. Bloomfield and Mrs Bloomfield, sen., left Auckland ii the Mokoia on a tour through Australia, Japan, Canada and England in that order. Mr W. F. Maasey, Leader of the Opposition, who has been in the Taranaki district during the present week, is tc deliver a political address in New Plymouth, probably on Friday evening. Dr. Lenihan (Roman Catholic Kshof of Auckland), who is on his way tc take part in the consecration of the Cathedral in Christchurch, is at present the guest of the -rector and professorial staff of St. Patrick's Coltege, Welling ton. Mr F. W. Mansfield, the Chief Registrar of Electors, leaves Auckland tonight for Whangarei, Kawakawa. and Helensville, to instruct the local registrars how to carry out the new system of registration. He then returns to Auckland, and goes back to Wellington. Mr and Mrs 0. Gore Adams (of the Thames) and party spent a unique holiday during the vacation, having formed a riding expedition to explore the Far Nortli. Staa-ting from Parua Bay they visited all intervening places of interest as far North as Hoklanga, the ecenery passed being magnificent. Mr F. A. Hornibrook, of the Christchurch School of Physical Culture, has received a letter from Mr Sandow, the famous strong man and physical culture apostle, asking whether he can suggest a couple of New Zealand "Sancrowites" to accompany Mr Sandow on his tour of the world, which will commence next May. Mr Hornibrook expects to be able to provide suitable men. A wedding which aroused considerable interest took place at St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, on Monday morning. The contracting parties were Mr F. M. Sims, third son of Mr H. G. Sims, of Auckland, and at present a member of the staff at the post and telegraph office, Thames, and Miss Agnes Wilson, third daughter of Mr E. Wilson, of Hamilton. The bridesmaids were Misses Sims and F« Sims, sisters of the bridegroom, and the bride was given away by her brother, Mr E. Wilson, Mr L. Goodwin, of the Thames, was the groomsman. Mrs Alice Knight, the mother of Mrs Thomas Culpan. of Ponsonby, died of pneumonia on Sunday la_>t, and was buried at Purewa yesterday. Mrs Knight arrived' hi Auckland from England on January 15 last on a visit to her daughter. She was the widow of the late J. G. Knight, who was well-known during his lifetime in Victoria and Northern Australia. He was a Government architect and engineer until 1870, after which time he went to Port Darwin as Government Resident, dying there about 1893. Mrs Knight "had reached the good age of 05 years.