PERSONAL NOTES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5339, 21 May 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

■ o ■ Mj«B AUely, who hasbeon spending a holiday la the W&ikjvto, returned home on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs do Tcureites atd family, who have l»pen spending .& lioliday in the north, returned this norning. Mr and Mrs F. Jardu.c, Jajte of 'ttcg'land, -who - !nre r taking $p their residence' at Te Pitke,* .'arrived by ihc Aupouri this morning. }irs H. Muir, otQreyinoiith^ , who das been on a holiday visit to her parents in Tauranga, left on her homeward journey this morning. By the tragic death of Mr G. W. W. Ughtband. who wa§ one o£ the victims of the canoe fatality, at Tahuna. last w,eek, the ranks of New ax-aland'stearry pioneers have been sadly depleted, stages the Nolson^Colenisfc «is fate Vas, unfortunatolv. shared by his grand-ne-phew The late Mr LigMband was boai in Worcester in 1884. and arrived in Nelson in 1842. In 1851 ho left;<for the Victorian goldfields, andaftdr ahany adventures returned tQ,4Sel9onT Abdut 18(51 Mr Lightband and sonic* other gent lonian took a number of prominent Maoris to to England. During the visit a. command interview' was given to them by the late Queen Victoria. Mr Lighthand and Mrs Ltghtband recently celebrated f heir go*dW~ * wedding by visiting relatives in., various part's of New Zleaiand. Last week" the coimiicrcial-room of the. Te Puke Hotel was the. seen©, oJ a pleasant little ceremony, when a nuiuber of prominent Te Puke ree* dents gathered to Im! farewell to Mr R. O-. Speight, who, after a residence of 12 sears in Te l*uke, is leaving to take up his residence in Onehuriga (Auckland). Mossrs R. .King, C. Lally. D. J. McEwen, <> .1. Hodge, J. IRnilth, 0. McGulre. MidA. Montgomery mado feeluig reference to the regrot felt at Mr' Speight's departure, and wished him and Mrs .Speight every prosperity in the On behalf -of- a largo number of subscribers, Mr I). J. McEwen presented Mr -Speight, wit b a handsome travelling bag, with a sHyer shield inscribed "From Te Puke Friends." Mr McE wen also asked. Mr Speight to accept, on behalf of Mrs Speight, a cheque for a large amount.. Mr- Speight suitably replied, saying hi; would always cherish with pleasant recollections biu associations -with his many friends in Tie Puke.- He then proposed the toast 'of '^Prosperity to Te Puke," '. and ,h6pedvthjßy would havo the railway in a few-' years. The toast w/as coupled with the name of Mr Hodge, who replied in a very neat speech. Mr Speight left for Auckland by Wednesday's steamer. '""