PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11565, 23 April 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Thatkor. Mr A. Graham, Mr P. >>". Borne (New York), and Mr €. Rrudholme win p>iH-H-n'gers fioni the -Sout-h by the cx-pr'-N-t lri«t» nijjhti. Mr J. A. Milar, M.H-R-, Mr J. A. Park (Miiyor of Dunediu), Mr O. Mclntyre, Mr E. Mclntyre, a.rd Mr W. ti. Goodman wf-nt South by the. express yesterday morn-

ing. Captjii-n :>l(.'T)ougnll arrived from Wrilirmton by the Tame© yesterday. Mr and Mre iH. Gr-irdincr (Irwell). with Mis; Coop \Lr.tle itiver), are at present staying at tiie Lodge (Hiinni«r). They intT?n*tl i.'turning to ito-day. Mr H. B. iiooit. Mrs L. CLirke. Mr ,L It. Houdorwou (Melbourne), Mr J. 1 , . Hart.pi-iK'.* iXtw Ywic), L\lr D'Arcy (J3unedin), Mr Bhirer (New York), and Mr S. H. >.Iv2-i3 arrived in town yesterday. Mvis*re W. Macfarlano (Kiiiwarr.i) and J. Dcais'ks (of \Vidkari) wcro to town by t!ie north train last evtniujr.

Mr &ad Mk Chapnia-n, uf 1-t.wlr-ud Le.:«, wtut. Nort<h bj' yesterday evonicgV train. On the ocaifdon of hi.s promotion io Lumsden, t!ie etatiomuarter at Oxford We:,t (Mr J. Fraser) wae presented by th« railway stall witJi a handsome- act of carvers as a mark of esi«em.

At a meeting of the Timaru Presbytery, held in Timaru yesterday, tav Eev. H. K. Law Tie handed' in his re-sigaiatibn «->s minister of the St. Andrew's parish, on the ground of ill-health. At th? same meetuig tho roeignation of tlio Rev. J. Watt, of Morvon, waa r»?.ceived and accepLed, Jie lwvin.g accepted a call ito Waiaa. M..-J Pha-lje Parsons, a Wellicgton soprano, leaven for *he South thus netk (t*-le-gra.phe our corrcepondent), in order to take part, in the performance of "Judas Maccabaiue"' by tho Christchurcli Shisical Society. Mr A. D. Qlt-Laren. son. of Mr D. B. McLaren, of Ckriscchurcii, ha« passed his final examination for <i barrister hi Sydney, ilr went the Boys' High School, Christ-church, matriculated at Canterbury Colleg-e, and recently «ui:wd his M-A. degree. Mr McLaren, who is libra ikrn to the ■Supreme Court, Sydney, is a nephew of'Mr Justice Clark, of Tasmania, who, with Sir Edmund Ballon, dr.iitcd the Fotkral Enabling Bill of 16D1, which is almoHt. identical with thvL iicce;;ted Itj- tic peopio of Australia and Tasmania in 1893.

The "Temukii Leader" saj-s that, the Hon. Hall-Jones, Minister of Public Works, has quite recovered from tlxe offecUs ol the accident received while boarding the trnin ut Tima.ru last week.

Appropriate roferences were made at the minting of the Education Board yesterday monving to the death of ifr 11. Westenra-, a former chairman, aj)d lor many years a member of the Board, by the Chairman (Mr C. A. C. Hardy, M.H.'IL), Mr John Eenni«, Mr H. W- Perjanan, and T. V/. Adams. The gren.fc attention paid t<> pubHo mait«?m, and the time devoted to them by the Into Mr Westenni., were d«*elt on, end it. was resolved, on the motion of Mr Ktmniv. seconded by Mr Peryman, to record tho Beard's regret- at Mr TVcstenra's (Se.ith, and express th>nr fympathy with Ids family.

At thf Papanui Church yest-erday Dr. Coleri<Ui> Fair w<Ui married to Mies Maud Haydon, second daughter of Mr Jlluydon, of Virginiii. 'lhe ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Christchurch, fli-ii.int«l by th.? Vicar, i(h>ei Itsv. J. Campbell. A laagf atsamblnge of guesls were subsequently entrrtujiied at the iesidonce of tl>a bride's parents.