PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr Jas. Macfarlaue, County Chairman, who has been on a visit to Taranaki, returned to Gisborne on Sunday. On Sunday Mr and Mrs B. Bollorby left Gisborne to join tho s.s. Wakanui for London. Mr and Mrs Isaac Bayly loavo the colony on May Ist by thoPaparoa. Before leaving for Gisborne Mr F. J. Rowley, headmaster of tho Gisborno District High School, was the recipient of presentations from the teachers and scholars in tho West Christohurch School. Mr Rowloy entered upon his dutios at Gisborne yesterday. Members of the School Committee, with Mr W. Morgan as acting Chairman, attending at the school, welcomed Mr Rowley, and introduced him to tho teachers.

Mr Jeffs, of the local staff of the Public Works Department, has been trausfered to Greymouth, and leaves to-day. Mr A. T. Ngata and several leading natives passed through Gisborno yesterday on their way to tho confcreuco between the Premier, Native Minister, and themselves at Papawai, Wairarapa, on Friday next. It is expected that at this meeting the decision come to in Gisborno to at once throw open the lands banded over for lease, will bo confirmed, and a course of procedure decidod upon, dealing with tho whole of the lands already handed over, and any further arcus handed in at this meeting. When the Hon. J. Carroll is in Woffington he will represont to tho authorities the necessity of various telephone connections required in this district. Ho thinks that private persons might be allowed to erect lines under the supervision of tho Government officers. In this way the cost could be reduced by twothirds, and possibly Government might bo induced to give monetary assistance. These are Mr Carroll’s own ideas, and the Department may raise objections to tho carrying of them out. Mr L. Clayton, Provincial Secretary of tho Farmers’ Union, has received advice that Mr D. Huddie, Government Dairy Expert, will arrive in Gisborne about the 16tn. Notice of meetings will be advertised. A little son of Mr E. B. Marton, Waimata Valley, was badly scalded on Good Friday, having puffed a bowl of boiling fat off a table, the contents spilling over his body from his neek downwards. Constable W. Kelly, who was recently appointed to Awanui, is ono of tho best known police officers in tho Auckland district and few have seen longer service. He is a regular Poo Bah at Awanui, and besides being in charge of the police station and post office, also holds the appointments of Clerk of Court, Bailiff, Inspector of Factories, and Deputy Registrar. He also is called upon to fill another office, as under the Native Council Act ho holds the position of official member of that Council. Constable Kelly was successful in securing tho best share of theT2OO reward offered for the capture of Daly in Auckland a short time ago, and he was also the means of bringing Scott to the scaffold for the Waikomiti murder

years ago. A member of the Times staff saw a good deal of Constable Kelly during the time that he was working up the latter case, and with him spent a most exciting time whilst the investigations were proceeding. Constable Kelly possesses a fine tenor voice, and has taken part in some of the best concerts given in the Northern city, and should be a great acquisition to musical circles on the coast.