PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 277, 27 November 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Captain aid Mrs Boult go to Denedm by ■Jhe Manuka to-day^ Judge Multro leaves on t/» ChrMchnrch bjr the ManuS^SuT^te? * D a' S ", Bre f ris - of fiandlton, left SttSE2£ yes W-***s «• Colonel Gudgeon, British resident at ilarotonga, is expected to visit Auckland next month. \ Captain Chrisp, of\aisbprne, is a passenger for that port, by the Manuka this afternoon. \ Mr J. A. Kinsella, lata Dairy Commissioner is at present laid., up at private hospital in Hawera. \ * ■

Inspector Cullen rebooted to Auckland yesterday from a tour\of iaapeetion in the King Country. \ Advices received from Home state that Mr W. J. Napier is riot likely to be back in the colony until next' June. The Rev. H. N. Dramniond,\ oi the Melanesian Mission, left for Sydney by the Mokoia last evening, en route to Adelaide.

Mr A. Barron, chairman of the luand Purchase Board and Land Purchase Inspector, arrived by the Earawa fn?ni Wellington to-day -with. th> Minister f\w lands. , \

Miss Moon -was made the recipient ok a. dressing caee by the choir o£ St. Frances Xavier Church, Whangarei, on Saturday, on the occasion of her departure from the district.

Among the passengers for Sydney by tie Mokoia last evening were Mr J. W. Beattie, of Hobart, wno has been on a visit to the Solomon and Norfolk Islands, and Mr Alex. Morton, director of the Hobart llnseum and Botanical Gardens, who has been ■mniriT.g a holiday visit in New Zealand. Both gentlemen are returning to Hobart.

Mr. P. Wilding, the well-known tennis player, left the steamer Paparoa at Hobart to go to Melbourne to take part in the Victorian Championships. Mr. Wilding is expected to return to the colony in eight or ten days' time. He will endeavour to bring another champion, Brooks, with him to heighten interest iii the Exhibition contest.

2fews has been received from Brisbane of the death of Edgar J. Byrne, familiarly known as "Bobby Byrne," aged 64 years. Mr Byrne, who arrived in the early days, was one of the best known, and most popular personalities of tjneensland, and by his geniality and kjndheartedness endeared himself to all. •The well-known Brisbane "Courier" was founded by him, also the Queensland ♦-"Punch." and "Figaro," of which he has been proprietor and editor for the past 30 years.