Personal Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3509, 13 April 1905, Page 2

Personal Items.

It is understood that Mr F. Frankland will be a candidate for municipal honours at the forthcoming elections, Mr L. Reichel, chief electrican of the Public Works Department, has been granted a year’s leave of absence, and will sail this week for the Old Country, to obtain a wider electrical experience. Paratene Warune, a Maori veteran, died at Maugamannu, near Kaikoura, aged 96. Deceased belonged to the Ngatihi tribe. He was taken prisoner by Rauparaha in his famous raid on the Kaikoura Peninsula, kept as a slave for some years, and then released. Deceased was a preacher amongst the natives, and much looked up to. Mr James Holmes Lucking of the Pines, Streatham, London, S.W., who died on November 23rd, bequeathed £BB,OOO to charitable institutions, and left £xo,ooo in trust for aiding such institutions as have for their object seeking-out the destitute poor and destitute children of the metropolis, and providing them with board, lodging and clothing. The estate is sworn at £265,332 gross and £259,053 net. Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent electrician and Principal of Birmingham University, is a man of original ideas. He is reported in a recent English paper to have said that clairvoyance was not yet sufficiently understood ; but some day it would be included in the scientific curriculum of schools and colleges. Prosecutions for crystalgazing, Sir Oliver considered, were a stupid anachronism, and some day the fact that such prosecutions continued into the twentieth century would be remembered against ns. Father Hays arrived at the Bluff by the Waikare on Tuesday morning and was welcomed by the Mayor and citizens. A large assemblage met him at Invercargill station when he was received by Councillor Troggart on behalf of the citizens, and the Rev. R. Ferguson on behalf of the temperance societies. The Salvation Army Band was also present. In replying to an address, Father Hays said his object in visiting the colonies was solely to benefit his fellow men and that in his mission he knew no distinction of race, creed, or colour.