PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2337, 2 November 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Constable G. Pratt leaves for Wairoa this morning in charge of a prisoner. Air. AY. Lissant Clayton, left for Tiniroto and AYairoa yesterday to continue his election campaign. Constables Curtain and Hampton, who have been on duty in Gisborne during Carnival AVeek, returned to Napier last night. The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, President of the Native Lands Commission, arrived: in Gisborne on Saturday. Air. Justice Sim, President of the Industrial Arbitration Court, with Messrs S. Brown and J. A. AlcCullough, members of the Court, arrived from Auckland by the Talune yesterday.

Bro. J. M. Calder, District Chief Ruler, who arrived on;Saturday morning on an official visit to the Gisborne Rechabito Tents, returned South last evening. He had attended the' conference held by the Rechabites in Gisborne eight years ago, and expressed surprise at the many improvements made in Gisborne and the growth of the town since that time.

Mr. Rolleston Wyllie, who has been stock clerk for Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., for some, time, left on Saturday for Hamilton to join the staff of the Waikato Farmers’ Auctioneering Company. Before leaving Air. Wyllie was presented l with; a handsome silver stop-watch from the various attendants at the Matawhero saleyarefe, and with <a. travelling hag from his office companions. In the criticism by the “Hastings Standard” of the Hastings Orchestral Society’s concert is the following: “Mrs. .13. B. Bnekeridgo gave valuable assistance to the society by appearing. three times. Her rich contralto voice and her artistic sense of treatment magnetised the audience, and each of her efforts were imperiously encored, sometimes doubly encored, and she received floral tributes. She sang “Mon iCoeur S’onure a la Voix” (iSaint Saens), “A Silver Ring”. (Chaminadc), “Love is meant to make us glad” (E. German), and “My Dear Soul,” a Wessex ballad (Sanders on).”