PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14293, 2 March 1912, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Siddell arrived from Sydney, a_d Dr.' Begg from Wellington, by the Warrimoo yesterday morning. The Rev. Mr Hunt arrived from Wellington by the Mararoa yesterday

morning. • Captain G. G. Smith, Royal Naval ' „ Registrar, arrived from .Wellington I yesterday morning. At a meeting of the Ashburton County Council yesterday, a letter was : .. • read from Mr C. W. Purnell, the Cuun- ;',' / cil's solicitor, stating that he intended v . ■ ' paying a visit to England, and intimnt--ing the arrangements he had made for tho discharge of his duties during his absence. Mr W. A. Wilson, who has been granted six months! leave of abst-ne.

*roni the Postal Department, leaves '■ Christchurch nest Tuesday evening for Wellington, whore he will join the • X.M.S. Roto.ua, for London. - . The Yen. Archdeacon Thorpe, who wm vicar of All' Saints' Church parish, •kelson, in 1867, has just completed h;s fifty years as a clergyman. He will leave New Zealand shortly, on a wellearned twelve months' trip to the Old .Country (says tho Wellington "Post"), and hopes still to do some work at Sunnier, where he intends to make his * homo when he returns from England. * At the Ashburton Baptist" Church on Thursday evening, Miss F. E. Ker- - thaw, M.A., who is leaving for England, was presented with a handsome gut, in appreciation.-of the good work she had done for the Church. Mr Nat Woods, who leaves Christ- - nsurch shortly for a trip to the Old ■ Country. was. entertained last night by a largo gathering of business men ana other friends, and presented with a gold ■ - watch, suitably in&cribed. Mrs Woods received a turquoise pendant brooch. Mr Otira Opie, who recently gamed " • a faemor .National Scholarship,"has also won a Military Scholarship. Mr Opie i"2 .f- c: ,.- ea to acec P t the latter. He ' 'V* Wellington yesterday afternoon by the Lhmaroa en route for Sydney. thence ho will proceed to the Royal f . Military College of Australasia at imntroou.

--" .ii _■ J -,,l Nat oan has consented to -'• ' tr". t huns . lf to be nominated as a .... .«ndidate lor the Palmer-ton North -,t -inyoralty at the elections nest month.