PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13109, 7 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• ' s /# Thio Hon. J. A. Millar arrived Hastings on Tuesday night on a holiday Tisit. . ' '•. c -vJ§ Mr Downie Stewart, of who left on Tuesday on a short visit ,::J? to America, is making the trip primar- Yjzj ily to confer with Professor Lβ Itoeig- ; > nol, Professor of Economics lat Dearer -J§£ University, with whom he is rating in » work «a-Labour and other .tg& esonomic questioni/bearing on Ne»",^|. " " ' -,''%*s Polwe-Inspector Gillies returned to Ofarietchurch from Timaru by the seo- , ond express last evening.' : -■■ - Among the arrivals in town, yeeterday were:—Dr. Fox (Omihi), Messrs G. M.~ Hogbcn (WeUington), Chas. Mackay jftf (Dunedin), J. S. Sim (Hawarden),- and i\ Da-vison (Hamner). • ' ' "-V Mr F. H. Steel -waa on Saturday _s presented by his employees witb a marble clock on the occasion of his $|&s marriage. Mr "W. H. Jarden made , the presentation. i - -i'^On Tuesday evening a very pleasant ;f4s| gathering of nurses took ]jlaoe at the Trained Nurses' Home, Salisbury street, to bid farewell to Mrs Buahtoy ; :Sg (late matron, of the Home), vho leaving for England. Nurse Butter- iffiS worth, on behalf,of the purses, "fdt seated Mrs Bushby with a handeom* -v# gold bangle suitably inscribed, *» »7?w token of their appreciation of "'her-^c^ Mr William Barber McEwan,- ft»P«>fS merly of, Scotland, now of has been- appointed librarian of the'{%g| Carnegie Free Public Library din. There were eixty-otine applioriaJpii for tie position. 'l^'tfj^