PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12461, 26 March 1906, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain Hannah, Mr and Mrs Midlane, Mr W. Rutherford, Mr Mec. Mr Buchanan, Mr- H. Brett, -Mr Whitson, Mr F. "Waymouth, and Mr Ballontyne were passengers by tho Mararoa for Wellington on Saturday night. Tho Hon. A. K. Guinness, Speaker of the. Hoiiso of Representatives, and Mrs Guinness, are in town.

Miss C. J. Pavitt, late assistant mistress of the Opawa School, has been, presented by the teachers and scholare with a Kaiapoi rug and other articles, as weddinjj gifts. Mr George Mnllinson. the.jvell-known settlor at Kotuku, has been, appointed to the vacancy on the West land Board caused by the death of tlio late Mr Andrew Matheson. Mr Mallinson in a Crown, tenant and his appointment is Raid to be the first made in accordance with tho recommendation of the Land Commission that tho Crown tenantry fihould te represented on the Land Boards of the- colony.

Mr George Dansey, of the Greymouth Telegraph Office, lias been promoted to Wangaiiui. He is well-known in athletic circles throughout the colony. Mr' P. Oakden, Mr W. H. "Meek (Dunediu), Mr J. Wyatt (Melbourne), and Mr U. F. McCabe (Wellington) arrived in town yesterday.

Air T. Pringle, the weil-known builder, of Timaru, lc-aves to-day for a risk to the Old Country, accompanied by his wife and daughter.

Bishop Grimes retnrned v from th« W«sfc Coast on Saturday night.

Mr J. H. - Ferguson has resigned the Napier agency State Fire-Insur-ance Department, and the position will be taken up by Mr J. Parkor, secretary to the Napier Chamber of Commerce.

'Miss Catherine Helen . Spenco, of Sydney, who is eighty-onp years of age, proposes to stand again for a seat in the Federal Parliament. Her intellect ie bright and clear, and enthusiasm fresh. Miss Godfrey, who lias been appointed to the position of matron of tine Dannevirke Hospital, is a sister of Dr. Godfrey, of Waipnkiirau. She commenced her professional career in the London Hospital, where she remained three years. On coming to New Zealand she had a private hospital in Wellington for five years. She was matron of tho Waipawa district hospital for seven years, and had one year s military nursing in South Africa during the recent war.

The Hon. T. W. Hislop has decided that he Trill seek re-election for tho position of Mayor of "Wellington. Mr J. E. P. Allen, 8.A., LL.B.. of Cambridge, son of Mr James Allen, M.H.R., has *been called to the Bar as a member of the Inner Tenfplc. He \yill roturn to New Zealand at tho end of tho year with tho intention of practising in the colony. On Saturday Mr"J. S. Rutherford, of Opawa station, Albury, was presented with a gold pendant by tho president of the Southland 'A. and P. Association, the presentation taking place in Timaru. The pendant was accompanied by tho following letter from the secretary of tho Southland A. and P. Association: —"I have much pleasure in advising that my directors desire mo to express their very hearty appreciation of the kindly interest you have so often shown in tho success of our Summer Show, and all the trouble you have taken and tho expense you have so generously gone to in connection with the exhibitions of horsemanship, which have proved Hitch an attraction at tlies© functions, and they -wish mo to offer you their warmest thanks, all the morethat you aro not a resident of this district, and they desire you to accept the. pendant es a slight acknowledgment of their indebtedness to you—not in tho hope of discharging their obligations to you, but in token of their gratitudo tor your kindness." Mr McFarlano, assistant clerk in the Magistrate's Court at Timaru, has received wordi of his promotion to New Plymouth, but ho will be first stationed temporarily at Christchurch. Mr Hart, of Dannevirko will take Mr McFarlane's placo in Timaru. ' A farewell social to Mr J. A. Johnson, M.A., was held at the Main school, Timaru on Saturday afternoon, when about forty persons were present. A presentation was mado to Mr Johnson on behalf of the South Canterbury Educational Institute.

Mr H. Amos, lately on tho staff of tho Boys' High School, Timaru, left on Saturday for Feilding, having obtained an appointment in the Feilding school. Tho employees of Messrs Andrews and Beaven entertained Mr Androws on Friday, prior to his departure on a visit to tho Old Country. Mr Andrews was presented with a deck chair, a eilver-mounted pocket flask, and a pair of field glasses, and Mrs Andrews with a deck chair and a Kaiapoi rug. Mr Andrews thanked the employeos for their kindness. Mr and Mrs Andrews expect to return in time for the Exhibition.