and Lady Mitchell, who had been steying Among these passengers were Sir Charles here for a few weeks as guests of the Acting Governor; the Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, G.M.G., Police Magistrate, who has retired on pension owing to a recent illness; and Mr. Cyril Platt, the genial and popular ex-Private Secretary to H. E. Sir William Robinson, the late Governor. Mr. Wodehouse was made the recipient of two addresses and a handsome silver bowl presented to him by the officials and others connected with the Magistracy. A little crowd of his friends went off to the steamer to bid the retiring magistrate farewell. Mr. Wodehouse, though not versed in the law and not perhaps too well acquainted with its practice, not being a barrister, was a most conscientious oficial and gave tireless attention to his work,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.