PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2232, 2 July 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The.Bev. W. Grant returned from South yesterday. Constable Scott loft for Napier yesterday in charge of a prisoner. The Bev. G. K. Stowe]], of Waipawa, returned South by the s.s. Wimmera: yesterday.

Mr. E. Davis, a member of the Newmarket Borough Council, is- on a visit to Gisborne.

McEvedy, of the Angloivelsh football, team, intends to remain in New Zealand at the conclusion of the tour, riml to practice his profession in the North Island, but ho has not yet decided upon the town. . Mr. Percy Adair, the well-known amateur Linger of this town, who recently went to Auckland to sing in the initial performance of /‘The Tea •Girl,” produced by the Australasian Musical Society, received favorable notice. Speaking of Mr. Adair, the dramatic critic of the “Auckland Herald”' stated: “As Captain Clyde Burke, Mr. Percy Adair was well cast. He spoke his lines well, and there was commendable ease in his gestures. His singing voice, of pleasing quality,, was given opportunity in the solos,‘Colleen Asthore,’ ‘O Ayami San.’ and ‘My Little Queen,’ and he was warmly applauded.” Sir Robert Stout (states a _ Press Association telegram) will leavc'Auckland for "Wellington by tlie ; Monowai via the East Coast on Saturday, and will return to Auckland district about the beginning of August' in connection with the business of the Commission.