PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 357, 6 March 1902, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Yesterday Mr W. L. Rees received a telegram from his sod, Lieutenant E. A. Rees, stating that his official duties prevented him from visiting Gisborne for a few days before leaving for South Africa with the Ninth Contingent. He will be pass through Gisborne on Sunday morning next in the Waikare. Lieutenant Barton, who recently received a commission with the Ninth Contingent, proceeded to Auckland by tho s.s. Te Anau yesterday. The Misses Cuff, of the Geisha Tearooms, will have charge of the refreshment room at tho Horticultural Society’s show this afternoon and evening. Mr W. D. S. Macdonald has taken over tho Tokomaru Hotel from Mr J. Martin. Several members of the City Band left last evening for New Plymouth to attend the North Island Band Contest. Messta J, Chrisp and Don are competitors in the cornet- and euphonium solo competitions respectively. His Lordship the Bishop of Waiapu arrived from Auckland yesterday. Messrs J. and M. Murphy and G, and . R. Reynolds left for Palmerston NortJiL last evening to attend the annual tournament of tho North Island Pjlo Association.

Mr W. J. Sykes, dentist, has removed to his new premises opposite the firebell, where he has secured an excellent suite of rooms upstairs. The apartments have undergone extensive alterations and are specially adapted to the largely increasing practice conducted by Mr Sykes. Messrs H. Hill, S. McLernon, and W. Morgan meet the representatives of Tarnheru and Whataupoko on Friday evening at the Gisborne School to discuss the question of a site for the proposed sideschool. We understood that the information the Board's representatives will require will be as follows :—(I) The number of children to the west of Baliance street in and under standard two who would be likely to attend a school on a site somewhere about the pound ; (2) the number of children west of Baliance street, including the Mangapapa Valley and Taruheru, who would be willing to attend a school in the neighborhood of Mangapapa ; (3) how many children of school age there are at Taruheru. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Press Association will be held to-day in Auckland. The directors are Messrs Geo. Fenwick (Otago Daily Times), J. C. Wilkin (Lyttelton Times), J. C. Wilson (New Zealand Herald), H. Brett (Auckland Star), L. Blundell (Wellington Post), E. Knowles (Napier Telegraph); manager, Mr W. H. Atack. The following shareholders have also arrived in Auckland :

Messrs Geo. Bell (Dunedin Star), J. L. Kelly, (editor New Zealand Times), P. Dinwiddle (Hawke’s Bay Herald), and P. Selig (Christchurch Press). The friends of Trooper Lytton Ditely will be relieved to hear that he was not included in the New Zealanders who were killed at Bothasberg. Yesterday afternoon Mr Pt. Bell, of Messrs Williams and Kettle’s Gisborne staff, who is a cousin of Trooper Ditely, received a telegram to the effect that the Gisborne representative had been dangerously wounded in the recent engagement, and was progressing favorably. Trooper Ditely has a sister re-

siding at Nubaka, and was himself paged in pastoral pursuits in that dis.