PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 99, 6 May 1901, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr Reginald Brett returned from the South Island by the Mararoa on Saturday. Sergeant - Major Finn, Government Drill Instructor, arrived from Napier on Saturday. He will inspect the Gisborno Rifles at a parade this evening. On Saturday Mr Williams, of the telegraph staff, was ordered to the hospital, suffering from typhoid fevel. Mr Sparks, chief officer of the Waihora, has been transferred to the. Mararoa, Mr Stewart, cbiof officer of the Mararoa, taking his place. Mr J. P. Clarke, of Auckland, arrived by the Te Anau yesterday, to attend the installation ceremony in connection with the Turanganui Masonic Lodge. Mr D. C. Hawkins left for Christchurch last evening, and will be away from Gisborne for a month.

Lady Onslow, in an article entitled, “ Woman’s Position in the Commonwealth,” appearing in the current number of United Australia, makes an eloquent appeal for tho enfranchisement of Australian women. Lady Onslow was a tower of strength to the Equal Franchise League of Western Australia, for her warm and active sympathy with the object of the league did much to advance the woman’s suffrage movement in the West.

An interesting meeting of the Local Council of Waiapq- Women was held last week to discuss the platform of the National Council. Mrs Beere, senior, was elected delegate, and duly instructed as to voting at the annual meeting of the Council to be opened at Wanganui, on the 9th inst.

A presentation of a pleasing nature was made to Mr D. Shaw, jun., of Morere, at a social gathering held in the schoolroom at that place last week. Mr Shaw, who is leaving the district to study with a view to entering the ministry, was presented with a cheque for a substantial amount. The presentation was mado by Mr Proudlock, who conveyed to Mr Shaw the best wishes of the gathering. Mesdames Tait, Sloan, and Reynolds, Misses L. and O. Reynolds, Joblin, and Siddells, and Messrs Neal, Jefferson, A. and D. Anderson, J. Sloan, and M. Shaw contributed towards a varied programme of songs, violin and pianoforte selections, recitations, readings, etc. An excellent supper was provided by the ladies. Sergeant Norman Leslie, of the Sixth Contingent, writing to his friends in Gisborne, under date of Pretoria, March 28th, says: “ From East London, we were ordered to the front by train. The horses were shipped straight from the steamer to the train, and could hardly stand. You can imagine the treat we had getting them off the boat. Several of them had to be left behind at the depot. At Stormherg, we saw the place where Gatacre and his men were cut up. At Springfontein, we met the Third New Zealand Contingent, and also saw a number of graves of Maorilanders who had fallen. Lord Kitchener inspected us yesterday, as also did Colonel Plumer. Lord Kitchener is a very determined looking man. Some of the boys are in the Hospital, amongst them being Law and McKinley. The place is over-run with fever, as we are camped behind a large field-hospital.