PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 10, 14 January 1901, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs J. W. Witty left for Auckland, en routo to Rotorua, by tho Mararoa.

Mr W. Sievwright returned from the South by the Mararoa on Saturday evening. Mr Wallace, tho well-known representative of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., of Auckland, is at present visiting Gisborne. Mr ana Mrs C. A.DeLautour left for Auckland by the Mararoa. They visit Wellington before returning to Gisborne. Mr C. J. East, who has been in Sydney during the past month attending a musical examination, returned to Gisborne on Saturday evening. Messrs A. Cox and Holford, of the local telegraph staff, left by the Te Anau last evening for Wellington en route to South Africa. A large number of friends assembled at the wharf to see them off and wish them good luck.

Mr Greenstreet, who formerly resided in Wellington, has several friends in Gisborne, and who journeyed to South Africa several years’ ago, is now chief secretary of the cold storage department of the great Doßeers Company. Mr H. Lowry, late of Gisborne, auctioneer for Messrs Dalgetty and Co., conducted the first sale in South Canterbury on behalf of his firm on the Bth inst. at the Fairlie stock sale. Mr Lowry succeeded in disposing of all the stock he offered.

Miss Cooper, daughter of Mr W. Cooper, of Wainui, who lifts been on a twelve months’ tour through England and the Continent, returned to Gisborne by the Mararoa on Saturday. Messrs Mentiplay, Ballinger, and Bell, three of the Wellington bowling team, are proceeding direct to Christchurch to take part in the tournament at that place. The fourth member of the team will join them in Wellington. Messrs E. Richardson and T. Ogden, of the Waimata, left Gisborne yesterday for South Africa via Wellington. If they cannot gain admission to the sixth contingent at Wellington, they are determined to go to South Africa and enlist there. They are certainly much better qualified for a place in the contingent than many of the men who have been sent to Wellington from other districts. “ Spell oh!” was given at the Post and Telegraph Office on Saturday afternoon while the staff clustered.round to take farewell of two ex-members, Messrs F. Holford and A. Cox, who wore to leave next day for South Africa. Mr Sampson, Chief Postmaster, on behalf of the staff, presented Messrs Holford and Cox with a travelling bag each, and expressions were given to the hope that they would find fortune and success in their new venturo across the seas. The young men spent their boyhood in Gisborne, and though many friends will regret their departure, they are young men of sterling character who should push their way in the world wherever they may go. They have the heartiest good wishes of Gisborne people.