PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14237, 28 December 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington for •--. Christchurch last flight. ( Bo will re- J ' turn by the steamer in the ovening. 1,The Hon.. l>. Buddo, k Minister for In- \ ternal Affairs, left for Wellington last j •evening. He may return to Canterbury * for the New Year holidaya. ■. • > -•I ' ] Mr W. H. Triggs returned from j ' Wellington by the Mararoa yesterday \ 1 morning. ;. Captain J. Grubb arrived from tho ' • ! Kbrth by tho Mokoia yesterday. ; ■ [ Among the arrivals in town yestcsr- i i day were:—-Messrs 11. B.t J£eny£. (Gee- ilong), W. Wardrop (Timaru), W. 1'- \! Fenu (Tiniar«j,;W. F. Lamboni (i'inir { ! I aru)> E. 'P. Cavinagh (Hamilton),' J)i <, 1 T. Burke (Hamilton)/ J\ Cook -(St. . • T. Bxixton A: V> . > \ ■ Young (Dunedin), It. Bauchop . (Port . ' Chalmers), J. Mackenzie (Melbourne), ', : I)r. Ilobertson (Wellington), and Dr. McEvedy (Southbridge). '• . ',"■ ! On Thursday hist, alter the presenta- ',; tion of prizes to the children attend-, ' ing tho East Christchurch lntancv t ; Scuool, Mr DTayton, chairman of .tho - I School Coramitteo, presented, on bebalt , of'".tbe teachers, a handsemo handbag to Miss Melvina Miles, who has left tho ' school to take up ■ her work in tho _ Training College. An' enthusiastic meeting of elector* of the old Sohvyn oloctorato -was held at Sheffield on tiaturday, when it was decided to entertain Mr C A. C. Hardy at a social in tho Sheffield Hall on a date to bo decided early in January, when it ,is expected that Mesara vMassey and, Allen and othor members of Parliamc:it will bo present. ,= Mr T.-M. Wiiford, M.P., Mayor of Wellington, whoso health has been tinsatisfactory for some time past, leaves . for England by the Corinthic to-day. Ho will be accompanied by Mrs Wiiford and Miss leabol Wiiford. Ho intends • to consult a specialist in London, and to return to New Zealand as soon as Honour Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, left for Wellington by w>. .. Mararoa last night. Tho Key. F. i. Fendall and the Jvov. , > Mr Fox, Dr. P. McEvedy, Mf and Mrs J. A. Mitchell, and Mr and Mrs A. A. Brown, left for Wellington last night. ■ Messrs it.P. Brown and L. M. Brown left for Dunodui by tho Mokoia. yesterday. -^ SJusi evening some friends of Mr P. Rosa, late oi tho Jfimpiro Hotel, ■ pfe- - sented him with a gold medal, jrui 1 *- ably inscribed, and a purso of sovereigas, on the occasion oi his departure from Christchurch. ■ . Sergeant-Major ArtiGccr Toye, •who has been stationed 'at Lyttelton for many years, and -who has been a member of *fco Royal New Zealand Artillery (pcrmaii- . ent forces) for over 34 years, is retiring on superannuation at the end of tins mouth. , Mr Edgar It. Waite, curator of tho Canterbury Museum, who has been eori- :■ ously ill ior several weeks past, k "now convalescent, and is in a tair way to recovery. Mr b. 13. Wood has returned to Chrifitchurch after visiting England and America. At the. East Oxford School on Friday afternoon.. .Miss K. A. i'arr, who ■■'ha*. " .completed her pupil-teachership, T and : who is leaving to enter tho Normal . Training College, wag preseated bx.tJto

Girls Hockey. Club with a silverniountod scent sprayer. The presents- ; tion was made by tuo headmaster, and ! -Miss I'-Arr suitably replied. At"tor macs at tiiu Cnurch of the Holy •Namo (Asliburton) on Sunday, -Air M J. Burgess, on behalf of tho"parisliioncra, presented tho Very iiev. Venn O JJonneli with an address and a purse ot sovereigns as a token of approciatioa i ot u\a good, work tho Dean Had done ! duruiK a period extending over twenty 3 curs* - *