PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 263, 10 November 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Henare Kaihau, M.H.R., arrived from the South by the Rarawa this morning. Mr. S. E. Grigsby. manager for Messrs, s Collins, Bros., is leaving on a visit to :• Australia by the Manuka on Monday. l " Mr. Sheath, chief postmaster at Na- j '.• pier, and Mm. Sheath, who have been I d spending a short holiday in Auckland ' and Rotorua, returned South by the j. Talune this afternoon. r Mr. F. E. Baiime. M.H.R.. has been, a down with an attack of influenza since 4 he returned from Parliament, but is now | .. recovering health. 5 Among the Clansman's passengers -1 ! from the North yesterday were .Judge >i Kawson, of the Native ]j«.nd Court, Dr. c Buckby, and Captain living. * Dr. Wallis. the Rishop of Wellington. " and Mrs. Wallis, were passengers by the r I Moeraki yesterday for Sydney, on a \nsit f to that town and Melbourne. Mr. W. H. Ataek, manager of the New Zealand Press Association, arrive! yes--0 torday at Fremantk by the Ophir, on * his return from a visit to the United I states and Europe. j. Mr. G. Hehnbrod, who has been under- ] taking magnetic surveys in the Pacific '{ during tlio past four months, for the . Carnegie institute, leaves for Sydney on y Monday by the .Manuka. t Among oversea visitors at the. Auekr land Tourists' office during the. past week were Mr. J. B. Kennedy, of Edin- .. burgh: Mr. Robert Campbell, of Paisley; .. and Mr. Charles Ilcwctt, Melbourne. o The Rev. H. H. i>. Hamilton, of • t Southbridge. purpoSfis shortly to resign c the ruTe of Ellesmere. Ttlr. Hamilton's n plan is to settle in Gisborno with his i. sons for a time, and then take up work 0 in the diocese, of Waiapu. n Chief Judge Jackson Pnlmer, of the v- Native Land Court, is laid aside by illh ness at Leesron, and it will probably c be a week before he can resume duty. '" Captain Hutt-Taylor, representing - James StTinhury, the eelebr.itod cham- ! ? pion peullcr of fh.-> world, is now on a | '- visit to Auckland. It is confidently I " hoped that Mr Stanbury may be ins duced, through the Auckland' Regrtta '" Committee. *:> visit Auckland during n January, when a runich wiil probably be ! « arranged hrtweon Stanbriry find a locnl nun, the former conceding a reasonable s handicap. 0 On Wednesday n Ftornocm. at St. Mary';? Cathedral, Parnell. the. marriage of Miss r Florence Gay, o-niv daughter of Mrs. S. j p Gay. with Sir. W. A. Fraser wns ecle- \ brated. The church was prettily d*>co- ' p rated with fio/.vers and prr'-.Miery. a wi-d- ' °" ding beli being; suspended troni a floral '' n arch in the chancel. The Rev. Canon a MaeMurray officiated, and :-ifler the c-pre-mony Lite minister presented the brd- " with the. prayer book and hymn book i that he h;id used during the serviep. in a i 3 Jit fir. morocco leather rate. Mr. Arthur c Buttenvnrtli. cousin of the bride, gava I *• the bride away. s ' Mr. 11. A. H.Hitfhcns. a. very eld and esteemed resident of Auckland, died at 10 o'clock last night at his residence in I ' s Symonds-stroet. as the result of an npo- I . plectic stroke. Mr. Hitrhenb was bo;-n ! G7 years ;igo, in Cheshire, and when a young mar., was for some time disp;'n.-er p.c the Royal Vktoria Hospital, Forth ampton. Upon the rmtbicak of th.: Maori war he was cent out ac dispenser with the troop?, and for the forty odd I subsequent years ho has continued to reside in the colony. In his younger days he took an active part in volunteering, be ins; at one time captain of the old Waitrmatii Nav-;;ls. v.hile he was also a lieutenant of t'nn N'n. " Veterans. Lie was also an active member of the Liberal ar.d labour Federation, and wa.i always very keenly interested in politics, while as a he stood h : g T i 1 in his order. Ke was well known in : Auckland as hciiis the possftssor of ,n famous blood-res; or inrr rc-crpe bequeathed 1 to him by the late Sir A. Mr.o.-c, but j ' strangely enough, although it w.ii con- } sidered to b<. , extremely raluah'.e. end * would therefore, naturally bo rareftl'ly 1 preserved, no vestige of it can be now discovered, in «=pii«. of the closest search ■ His wife predeceased him by piarht years, ' and he is survived by ten children, four son-t and six daughters. The funeral - take* plnr-e on Monday afternoon at ■ Waikumete. Mr. Martin Danaher, for many year? oik' of the most successful contractor- , lin Xew Zealand, and later on in New South Wales, died on the second ii!«t., at his residence, Warren-road. Marrickvilie, New South Wa'es, at the age of 65 years. Born in Limerick. Mr. Danfther emigrated to Victoria, when 12 yrars j of age, with his parents, hut afterwards settled in New Zealand, whtrrr , he entered into business as a contractor in Dune- ' din. For many years he was a resident J , of Auckland. He carried out many im- ' j portant works in that colony, including r i the construction of the railway lines from ' Mauricevillc to Eketahuna., .tohnsonvills | to Porirua. and Henderson's Mi'! to Ku- I men Junction. He wa.3 the contractor for the sewerage system in the rily of Auckland, a.nd built the City Markets in Queen-street, and the original Queen's j Wharf. He was also the contractor by I whom the reclamation of Freeman's Biv J was carried out. In New South Wales !he constructed thnt part of the Xorth. I Coast railway between Byron Creek and j Mullimbimhy, and in Queensland, in conj junction with his son, Mr. James Dana- . ' her. completed the line from Wyandra '• o Cunamula.. For some years past he had retired from business. .Although never seeking to attain any public po«i- , tion (says the '"Sydney Daily Tclegr. ph") I Mr. Danaher was ;m earnest partisan, t ' j who at every election brought his iiflu- | ' I enr-e to bear in support of the candidate i holding similar views to his. The dc ' ceased gentleman leaves a widow, five j sous and four daughters. ■