PERSONAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2709, 13 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Ven. Archdeacon Williams, Revs. L. Dawson Thomas. M. W. Butterfield, W. H. Roberts, and Brown Turei left by the s.s W hum era. yesterday evening for Napier, in order to attend the consecration of the V en. Archdeacon Averill as Bishop on Sunday next. Mr. D. Reese, the well-known Christchurch cricketer, arrived from Auckland on a visit to Gisborne yesterday. He will probably go South on Sunday next.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barton returned from South by yesterday s boat, and Mr. Barton presided over the Magistrate’s Court in the morning. . Capt. Ferris, of Gisborne, was in >vairoa this week (says the “Guardian ) and informed us that he hardly recognised the township. Considering the captain has only visited this locality once in thirty-seven years, we should rather expect lie would see some improvements. In 1.872 Captain Ferris unveiled liiid fired the usual salute over the monument erected in front of the Wairoa Courthouse to the memory or Pitihera Kopu. the loyal chief of the Neatikahungunu. The Rev. Thomas Fee, president ot the Methodist Conference, has . given notice that he will apply for permission to rest ' from active'work during the year 1911. Mr. Fee will then have given thirty-throe years to ministerial work, including special activities in the cause of temperance reform. Mr. William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, who twice unsuccessfully stood for the presidenev of the United States, advised Mr. W. H. Gocher, of Pyrmont, bv a recent mail, that he intends to visit Australia at an early date.