PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 71, 21 January 1882, Page 291

PERSONAL

— Judge and. Mrs Hackett are at Waiwera. — Mr T. W. Marsh, the Mormon convert, is enjoying himself at Motuihi. — Mr Seed, Inspector of Customs, arrived in Auckland on Saturday last, on an official visit. — Mr Gardner, advance agent of Bachelder's Christy Minstrels, arrived at the beginning of the ■week. — There is a tragedian in New Zealand -who spouts Shakespeares. N.B. — He does it at the pawnbroker's. — Amongst the passengers by the Wanaka from the South was a Tichbourne. Can this be the Claimant ? — Allan West intends to "put in" the summer m onth s here . The weather in Sydney is at pr es ent too warm for dancing, eh Allan ? — Mrs Digby (Miss Solange Novaro) has accepted an engagement from J. C. Williamson, and is supporting him down South. — Mrs J. T. Kennedy (better known to Aucklanders as Miss Lily May) has presented her husband with a daughter. — An engagement has been made between Mr W. Wood and Miss F. Clendon, of Whangarei. The wedding is to take place in March. — The Rev. Mr Mackintosh has resumed the pulpit at Whangarei after a fortnight's holiday on Limestone Island. — Mr Nelson is again edging himself into the musical element. At a late practice he beat time ' with one of the ladies' parasols. — The Union Company asked Williamson the steadier of a £1000 to bring his opera companyover, at least so the Witness says. — Mr W. B. Langbridge has been making a. tour of the South with a view to extending the business of his advertising Bureau. — Sergeant Kidd has returned to Auckland. He will be the biggest man (excepting Sergeant; Gamble, of course), in the Auckland police force. — Constable Dugan has doffed the serge suit and brass buttons to look for more lucrative employment. The girls are sad thereat. — Mr Hannay, Assistant Manager of Railways, and who is said to be the coming boss manager of our New Zealand lines, has come up to look into matters connected with his department. — Captain Hill, of the barque Anazi, is married to Miss Poley, an Auckland young lady, with whom he became acquainted on the occasion of his last visit here. Pond and Cheeseman have given over fishing for " soles." Wouldn't Captain Anderson let the Deveron go on another cheap trip, eh ? or was the first affair a failure ? — When Te Ngakau was last in Auckland, Major Wilson, of Cambridge, took him to Clarke's Photographic G-allery, and induced him to sit for his likeness, which has been capitally taken. — Mr R. J. O'Sullivan, Inspector of schools in the Auckland district, was a passenger by the Hero to Sydney on six months' leave of absence. He will return to Auckland via the South. • — Mr John Sheehan was married to Miss Young, of Mahurangi, last Saturday. The bride is a young lady with about 16 years' experience of this wicked world. —An engagement has been made between Joseph Gordon, Durham-street, and Miss Francis, Union-street. The marriage takes place on the 28th of February. — Brophy, the Quarantine Superintendent, is a very important personage indeed now. We wonder what he carries in that " official" envelope which he always carries around. Is it waste paper ? — Mr R. M. Stark is going into the strawberry and cream business next season. He has a splendid site secured near the North Shore Wharf. — The friends of Charlie Stubbs will be interested to learn that he has found his fate in England, and was to be married prior to leaving London by the P. and O. steamer Rosetta about a fortnight ago. Mr and Mrs Stubbs are sure to meet with a cordial reception in Auckland. No one can help liking Charlie and now that lie has a

wife to. look after him, it will not be so easy for heartless and designing persons to prey on his good nature and victimise his pocket. — Finlay H. seems to have quite recovered from his recent disappointment, and. is flirting desperately with the Baptist young ladies, in the hope of finding a successor to the cruel fair one. — The May Queen may not have a particularly lively appearance, but everyone who knows Captain Colville says he is one of the nicest and most gentlemanly skippers who has ever been in Auckland. — On Monday next the 23rd inst., Mr John McCullagh, of Rattray's, Queen-street, will tie the matrimonial knot with Miss Martha Graham, eldest daughter of Mr Walter Graham, late of Queen-street, now of Wellington-street. — The approaching marriage is announced of Mr J. G-. Rutherford, of Rama Rama, the owner of the game old steeplechaser Sportsman, and Miss Rebecca Simms, eldest daughter of MiNicholas Simms, of Newton-road. The knot is to be tied on Wednesday week. — The teacher of etiquette behaved so rudely at Dr W.s dance at Tauranga while a duet was being sung, that she attracted the attracted the attention of the whole assemblage, especially S., who was heard to utter something unmentionable to show his disgust. — We overheard a man, walking down Shortland-street, during the late assizes, say a cruel thing about the Crown Prosecutor. " Hudson Williamson," he remarked "is not much of an advocate. Do you know, if ever I got into trouble, he's the lawyer I should like to conduct the prosecution." — The news of Detective Jeffrey's departure down South has caused great joy amongst the criminal classes who anticipate having a jovial time till the new officer learns to understand their ■ways. No one can accuse us of being over partial to Jeffrey or blind to his little weaknesses, but this we do say that the man's experience in the district makes him an invaluable officei-, and will cause him to be much missed, It is our belief that he will be recalled within six months. The death of Lady Mount-Edgcumbe (says Truth) will be deeply rogretted on her son's estates and in Plymouth, as she was very land and charitable, and always ready to promote every good work. Lady" Mount-Edgcumbe did not die at Mount-Edgeumbe, as stated in the daily papers, but at Saltram House, Lord Morley's place near Plymouth, where she had arrived a few days before on a visit to Mr Plartmann. She had been in delicate health for some time, but died from angina pectoris, after only twentyfour hours' illness. Lady Mount-Edgcumbe had resided for the last twenty years at the family " dower house," Cotehele, a beautiful old place on the banks of the Tamar, which is, perhaps, the most perfect specimen of the old Elizabethan xnanor-house now in existence, retaining all the original features, both inside and out.