PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2296, 15 September 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The member for Ashburton, Mr. J. McLachlan, wbo was taken seriously ill in Auckland a month ago, reappeared in Parliament on Thursday. Dr. Thacker, who hag just return* ed from a trip to the Old Country, announces that he will contest the Lyttelton scat at the general election. Mr. A. F. Harding, captain'of the Anglo-Welsh football team, hasi not accompanied the team back to England. Ho intends to stay in. Australia for some timo. Mr T. E. Donne, of the Tourist Department, has received a communication from the Parisian firm of Pm the Ere res, the famous cinematograph photographers and photograph-ma-kers, stating that three of their expert** were about to leave France, with the object of visiting New Zealand in search of new sights and scenes for their cinematograph department.. Mr and Mrs' Mallinson are returning from Wellington to Napier and Hastings, where they arc to give six more concerts, and from there tliev 6*9 .b IxotoriM for several days before giving a series of return recitals at Auckland. They then go down to Christchurch and Dunedin, and leave or Australia, via the Bluff. So far, tliey have given twenty-one concerts in Australasia, and their contract is for fifty. Police-Inspector MacdonelJy of Napier, who is retiring, ha s concluded forty-one years of public life. He came .from Glengarry, Scotland, serving eight years in the Inverness country police. He came to New Zealand in 1875, joining the Otago police under the late Commissioner Weldor and Inspector Mallard.'