PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 420, 20 May 1902, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Colonel Newall arrives in Gisborne tomorrow morning. Mr C. J. Steele, of the local Telegraph Department, has been transferred to Napier, and Master Sawyer has been promoted to a cadetship in bis place. The marriage of Miss Skipworth, of Gisborne, and Mr Rhodes, of Auckland, is to take place this week in Auckland. Mr R. Ssipworth left Gisborne on Saturdaylast to attend the ceremony. Mrs W. Grey’s Cinderella dances will not be held this winter.

It is reported that Messrs Montezam • bert and Willard, of British Columbia, have completed negotiations for a six months’ option over the Golden Link Special Claim at Te Puke. The optionholders have started work, and if future developments are satisfactory they pay £IO,OOO in cash for the claim. The Opotiki Herald states :—The Hon. J. Carroll would be a welcome guest at Opotiki should he come here. If he does not come further than Whakatane the Opotiki County Council will resume their old tactics, and boycott him. Mr Hone Heke, M.H.R., of historical descent, and who is at present engaged on the Royal Commission on native land titles in this i ! part of the Bay of Plenty, will use every I* blandishment he can to induce the Hon, J. Carroll to visit Opotiki at the conclq- & eioa of the native naasting at Wbakstau;