PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 405, 2 May 1902, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs H. Lysnar arrived in Gisborne by the Elingamite yestorday. The following were through passengors by the Elingamite yesterday : —For Napier : Mesdames O'Neill, Cinquovalli and child, Trimnell, Messrs Marcus, J. O’Neill, Cinquovalli and assistant. For Wellington : Mesdames Whewell, Lewis, infant and maid, Misses Collins, Halpin. Messrs Cowley, Burgess, Schatz. For Lyttelton: Mrs Kirton, Messrs Kirton, McDonald. For Dunedin : Mesdames Perotti, Hawkins, Messrs Perotti (2), Raiti. Mrs T. Steelo, of the Albion Club Hotel, accompanied by her daughter, loaves Gisborne on Sunday next for Wellington, en route for England. Mrs and Miss Steelo go Home by the Athenic, and will bo absent for five or six months. During Mrs Steele’s absenco in England on family business, her dutios at the Albion will bo discharged by Mrs Doyle, of Dunedin, a lady who has had considerable experience in the management of first-class hotels in that city and elsewhere. Mrs Steele’s many friends will join with us in wishing her a pleasant voyage. It is probable that Mr J. H. Pope, Inspector of Native Schools, will be affected by the retirement of civil sorvauts over the age of sixty-five. Mr Charles Carter, of the Polhrd Opera Company, intends leaving for England about Christmas next. It is stated that Miss Amy Castles receives £250 for each coucert. This is a little too strong for Gisborne, which would prefer to spend it in law. Rev. W. Ready, of Auckland, will deliver a lecture, entitled “ The story of my life,” in Gisborne, on the 15th inst. Mr Ready is an able and popular speaker, and bis lectures are brim full of humor and wit. He should draw a crowded house. Rev. Canon Fox left for the South yesterday. Mr F. J. Shelton is at present visiting Auckland. Mr Cinquevalli, the famous juggler, was a passenger from San Francisco by the mail steamer Sierra yesterday, and passed through here for Napier by the Elirvgamite yesterday. He was accompanied by his wife and child. We understand that arrangements have been completed for Cinquovalli to appear here for a season of three nights, commencing on May 10th., Gisbornites, therefore, have a treat in store for them. We venture to think that the testament of Cecil Rhodes will pass into the story of his life as the greatest and noblest deed he ever accomplished. The document itself, so full of lofty ideals and noble aims, shows t.'iat, business-like and practical as he was,. Cecil Rhodes was one of the finest dreamers and thinkers of this or any other age.—Daily mail. Mr C. H. McMurran, from New York, has been engaged by the Government to write a book on New Zealand for American “consumption.” He has been provided with apartments in tho precincts of Parliament House, and also with a female typist and a Webster’s dictionary, and he has set to work in real earnest. The book is to be profusely illustrated, and will contain photographs of Ministers, and make special reference to tho benefits derived by the colony during the Seddon regime. Mr McMurran has already contributed a few articles to the American and local press, which have attracted attention on account of their extreme originality, both as to method and matter. Mr and Mrs T. Byrne left for tho South yesterday. New Zealand, and probably Gisborne, is shortly to be visited by another noted temperance advocate, in the person of Miss Florence Balgarnie, a lady whom the official organ of the temperance party in England has described as " a, living force for righteousness wherever her powers are allowed to come fully into play.” Evidently New Zealand is considered an appropriate field for talents such as hers, 3ays the New Zealand Herald, for Miss Balgarnie is but one of several well-known temperance advocates and organisers who purpose making a descent upon the colony within the next few months. Miss Balgarnie is said to be an able and interesting speaker. Slfe has come out to learn, she told a Sydney audience the other day. Nothing had given her more pleasure than to visit the colonies, for she claimed to be a native of the same fiding of Yorkshire as Captain Cook. To a Sydney Daily Telegraph interviewer Miss Balgarnie spoke enthusiastically of the progress that is 4 being made in temperance reform in England. In Liverpool, which used to be called “ the black spot on the Mersey,” no fewer than 345 licenses have been refused since 1889, although the population has in the meantime increased by 78,000. - “ And with what result?” she asks. “In 1889 there were 16,000 arrests for drunkenness. Last year there were only a little over 4000, so that the number has been practically reduced three-fourths. I Mr F. Sharp, a member of one of the local contingents, returned to Gisborne by the Elingamite yesterday. Referring to the appearance of ".Princess Le Ranji Pai ” (sic), otherwise Madame Fanny Howie, at the Irish festival concert given recently in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, a London journal states: “ She is a daughter of Colonel Porter, commandant of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, in which her three brothers are also serving. Her mother is chieftainess of the Ngatiporou tribe of Maoris, who fought on the English side in the Maori war. Her voice is a deep contralto, and her selections were 1 The Minstrel Boy’ and ‘Savourneen Declish,’ for which she was warmly applauded.” And the Financial News say 6: “The Irish concert at the Royal Albert Hall last Monday was a great success. The event of the evening was the appearance of Princess Te P.angi Pai, the New Zealand contralto, who is possessed of a splendid voice. Princess Te Rangi Pai should have a good future before her on the concert platform.” The following inquiries for missing friends in New Zealand are from Lloyd’s Weekly of March 9 and 16 : Robert and George Plested last wrote from Spit, Napier, Auckland, 18 years ago. Sisters Kate and less inquire. Abraham T. Sparks, of Walthamstow, was in Wellington nine years ago. Brother William asks.

William Turner left Taunton, Somerset, 40 years since for New Zealand. Sister

Jane inquires. Peter Rice left Brighton for Otago, New Zealand, 30 years back. Brother William asks. •

Michael Gilmour, carpenter, left Lancashire for New Zealand in 1856-7, and afterwards sent for his brother Ro<*er. Brother Jack inquires. Edwin Bevan, of Tibberton, went to. New Zealand 25 years ago ,; last wrote from Upper Hutt, Wellington. Sister Annie inquires.

Annie Hart, now Mrs Koppel, seeks her aunt Maria and uncle John Hart, who left Brown’s Hill, Dartmouth, for New Zealand 37 years old,