PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mrs Shirley Bak*r went to Tonga by the Hauroto yesterday. Mr G. B. Linkfield, electrician on the cable steamer Iris. Is at present on a visit to Waihi. Major-General Babington. wlio is visiting the thermal district, returns to Wellington to-morrow. Mr Revt Royle. representative of Mr J. C. Williamson in New Zealand, went South to-day in the Takapuna. The Et» Rev. Moneignor O'Reilly, wlio has been on a brief visit to Auckland, returns to the Thames (his evening. Mr J. W. J. Preston, who was on the stali' of the l.'nion S.S. Co., has been appointed manager of the Burnie (Tas.) oliice of the company. Mr J. D. McKeneic, of 'Wbangarei, has announced himself as a candidate for the Marsden scat, which is at present held by Mr F. Mander. M.ILR. Archdeacon Colo arrived from New Plymouth yesterday by the Takapuna. The liev. J. B. !>neyd also returned to Auckland yesterday by the Takapuna. Father Tonncy. wlwi is being transferred from Oneimnjia ;o Kihikihi, is to be presented with an address svnd a purse of sovereigns by iris Onohunga parishioners. Mr J. -M. E. G arrow. Kesris;rar of the Otr.go University, has rcsijriipd that position in order to start practice as a ssolieitu!". i.r which profession he re-t-entlv ijcuiiiied. Cfipt. John Bcrnech, who i> on holiday leave, arrived in Auckland yesler- , day by the Takapuna with Mrs and Miss Berncch. dipt. C. Lambert has been relieving him temporarily as master of the Tahme. The many friends of Mr James Rolleston. fonucrly proprietor of the Central lloici, will be pleased to hear tliat he has reco\ orcd from hia recent illness, and lias again re-entered business, having taken a lease of the Grand Hotel. Princes Btreet. Mr Joseph Parker, assistant subeditor of tie Wellington "Post." and Mr W. Judge, editor of the athletic section of the Duuedin "'Star,'' tire visiting Auckland for a few days, and will bo present at t'iie cricket match tomorrow. Among it the recent visitors to Dargaville werp Mr T. P. Clark, engineer to the Waihi Gold Mining Company, and Mr C. C. Andersen, from Copenhagen, who is superintending the Installation of improved crushing machinery at the Waihi battery. These gentlemen arc making a tour of the North. After "doing" W'hangurei and the Bay of Islands, tacy return via the East Coast to Auckland. Mr P. Quinlan, the well-known hotelkeeper, has taken over the Thistle Hotel, in Auckland, from Mr Sumach, and Mr Lynch has returned to his old position as licensee of the Clarendon, which he had transferred to Mr Quinlan. Another hot-pi that has changed owners-aip is the Paexoa Hotel. Paeroa. which has been taken over by Mr E. F. Moriaxty. late of the Central Hotel, Dargaville. Mr li. llobbs. who at yesterday's meeting of the Education Board entered a protest against the action of the Board in the O'Donoghue case, will emphasise his protest by tendering his resignation before -the next meeting. Several., school committees have, we understand, already approached Mr Hobbs with a view to his contesting the vacancy thai his resignation will create, and it is probable that he will be a candidate. Mr St. John M'Guiro. eldest son of Mr Felix M'Guire, ex-M.H.R. for Hawera. and a well-known property-holder at Te Awainutu. died suddenly at his residence at Riverlea on, .Tliursday. Tht> dec-eased was born iri' Haw-era 31 years ago. Apprenticed to the sea, he served some yea:rs with the New Zealand Snipping Company, and nftarwsrda -with the Shaw, SaviH and Albion Company, in whose service ho rose to the rank of second officer beforp relinquishing the sea to ta-kc up farming at Riverlea. A Xow Flylmouth paper records that Mr William Ks.ssett. one of Taranaki's oldest and most respected settlers, died at tie age of S9 on February 3. Mr Basaett, who landed in New Plymouth in IS4I. bore a fall share of the military risks of the timw;. for which he received tie New Zealand medal. Mr Bosseit, who was a native of Cornwall, was a leading , member of the Primitive Methodist Church, of which he was one of the original foandcrr in the colony, and one of the oWesi local ecmrecied with that Church in New Zealand. ilr Gerald Parkinson, a New ZeaIniairr v, r ao the faculty of tlo I-fatio-aal D'cutal Hospital a few ago by o" six oat of the cigiri gold m?da!-, olisred for compcti-ij-jii in differeni. branches of dental sefcac-c, was a Hav.vra boy. Referring t.:< lir Parkinson and other New Zaaat the annual dinner of the >-'3ticH!sl Dental Hospital. the J)ea;j KAjd llioy were used to hard work, and vs-vTC certainly tnreatenud wjLh intt-Jli-g«a«ffl. Mr Joidorby. of Wiuiganul, and -Uj.- ljaek. 03" Dmiedin, wlio had been sisslyißg dejiustry at the National Hospital, have ;rf: for N«»w Zwiland. and Mr Wiritehcfuev. of has filtered the hosjwtaJ. Mr Pdrkinaan np for his LJS.S. degi-ec cirly dais year. Taie Ij?v. A. L. Cnmip. :1 .\\. w Zealanaer \iii« is ailing as rnissumary in New Britain, is rlsiting Uif colony with a Lnacipi-. beiny new in" Wellington. The Melihodisit (Tjuix-h is endea»'eoTiß» U> raise £ itmX) for misBionarr enterprise in Kcw Guinea. New IrelsuncL tine Sol.ouj.oi] isJaji-ds. },>%• Brftatn, FijL Samoa, and ajaojigat tiie fa.ooo Isdiaiis w«j«fc on tie sagar piaatatioas in .Fiji. J H JintSi-n —the area of Whk-L is aboui tlie same as r&at of the North Island of New Xaalaaid— tiibai war.s are still eairied ea, ea>imSt)als&iu exists, tufaiits ar<> killed, ana eld pso-ple are ailo-wed to The n&tSres bsg for mo-re teaehei-s to vSsit tJwfir vifiages, and chiefs are constsuitaj petitioning to this efleei. Mγ y, W, who left Aoroa on Saturday las± to take up the position of seraetary to ike Miieiielson Tinfb©r Compaaiy.. was oh Friday tke "eeSpient of a cas« of mounted * pipes from the ejn|3teyees at (ke Aeroa mills Mr liia*ai£ws itas been assot-ia-ted with the Wairoa since 187S, and was Jn re«ent years manager of tac Aoroa mill « ttie He was ehainuan of .tie .Hohsofl-jGdaaty Caraoil foj- seven years, aad daring hi s teras the roads ; between Dargajville end Tateraiicj and otter mam roads -were -made. M-- MatW&*i BttttZg thre, bore«,