PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 166, 25 July 1901, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Inspector O’Brien paid a visit to Gis borne yesterday.

The orchestra for the ball to-night consists of Mrs Fernandez (piano), Mr H. Massey (Ist violin), and assisted gratuitously" by Messrs J. 11. Ormond (2nd violin), and C. Adair (bass). Mr James Macfarlane, County Chairman, returns to Gisborne on Saturday. Mr J. Warren, County Clerk, who also visited Wellington as a delegato from the Cook County Council tc the Counties Conference, returned home yesterday morning. On the able Sergeant Stagpolc leaving New Plymouth on transfer to Danuevirke, his old staff presented his little daughter (grandchild of Mrs Maher, of Gisborne), with a gold watch and chain. Mr Sannderson, shipping representative of the Auckland firm of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., and Mr Appleby, a son of the Managing Director of the Huddart, Parker Company, were passengers by the Elipgamitc last evening, Both gentlemen are going through to Melbourne. Mr and Mrs Kirk, who left for Hamilton yesterday, return thanks for the sympathy extended to them in their bereavement by the death of their son.

Mr J. S. McLeod, lately assistant to Mr A. lleid, of Messrs Williams and Kettle’s Hastings branch, has been appointed auctioneer for Messrs Dalgety and Co., in place of Mr G. Eliott, transferred to the Gisborne branch.

On the morning of tho day upon which he died, Trooper Kendall, • of Hokianga, saw the faint outline of the Otago coastfrom the Tagus, and exclaimed : “ Thank God, there’s dear old New Zealand. I’ll go ashore to-morrow.” Peter Jackson, the ex-champion boxer, died at Roma, Queensland, on Saturday week. For a long time Peter had been ill with consumption, and the last few weeks pf his life were spent in-a sanatorium at Eoina. "•

’ After about forty years’ connection with the-port of Sydney, CaptainXV. T. Wawu, the well known author, sailor, and artist, died in the Sydney Hospital on July sth. He was knocked over by a cab, and received serious injuries from which he never recovered. He was a man much sought after on account of his great knowledge of ocean currents, charts, and more particularly about the islands q£ the