PERSONAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2747, 28 February 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

His Lords'll in the Bishop of p.aiapu is iikely to pay lus first- visit to this portion of the diocese next week. The Right Rev. A. AV. Averili is expected te arrive in Gisborne on Alarch H, and will stay until Aiareh 15, after which b*= will proceed up the Coast. Ho will .r. ali probability take the evening service at tiie« Holy Trinity Church on Sunday week, Aiareh 13. The Bishop will come overland via AVairoa, and will oe met at the southern township by the A tu. Archdeacon AA’illiams. •

Air. R. F. Houlihan, officer in ohm go of the local Telegraph Office, his resumed duty after his annual vacation.

Air. Chas. Gray, President of che Pccertv Bay Club, accompanied by Airs Gray, left for Napier last evening with the twenty-one members of the ciub, who will play cricket matches nga ; ;st the Hastings’ and Hawke's Bay Clubs to-day and to-morrow, returning on AA'eduesdav morning.

A press telegram from AA'estporc last evening says:—Air. G. H. Broome, who was recently appointed general manager of the State mine, A'ictoria, was farewelled at Ngakawau on Friday by the residents and employees of the Stockton, mine, and was presented with a handsome gold watch and chain as a tangible token of the people’s esteem. On Saturday Air. Broome was also entertained at a large and representativegathering in AVestport, when speeches eulogistic of the guest were made. Air. Broome has been most successful in his capacity of mining engineer, and concerning his dealings with the men as mil the Stockton Company’s manager, one# speaker said he could, not imderHaiiJm ’ what, the Government was doing Xgijtt|| allowing a man of Air. Broome's know®|||| skill and capacity as a mining enginoerßi to leave, this oomvfcfv. '■

A report- is obtaining publics Sc that Sir Ralph AA’illiams will succeed Lord Plunket as Governor of Now Zealand. Sir Ralph Chn.mpneys AYilliams is described as a mighty hunter, an interpid explorer, an author of repute, and an approved administrator. He lias penetrated the wilds of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, hunting and voyaging along the great- rivers, and living the life of an Indian in his desire to gather data of a region which was then a terra incognita ; lie lias travelled from end to end of the Dominion of Canada, and has spent sixteen months in the wilds of Central Africa, during ten of which he had no communication with the outside world; he has trekked through South Africa, he was with Sir Charles AA'arron’s expedition to Becliuanalnnd, and as a young man he hunted and travelled fop two years in Australia. He has thus crowded much into his sixty-one years, which rest lightly upon him. He stands six feet two in his stockings, weighs almost 20st, and is still as straight as an arrow. Lady Williams, who accompanied her husband on most or his expeditions. v was the first Englishwoman who ever looked on the groat A’ictoria Falls on the Zambesi River.