NAPIER NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

(By Telegraph'.—Special Correspondent.) Napior, Juno 10. ' Tho Rev. Dr. Kennedy, who has been appointed rector of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, .delivered a farewell lecture, to the '- Hawlto's l Bay Philosophical Institute, and at ' tho conclusion of tho .address the following resolution was passed:—"That tho members < of tlio Hawke's Bay Branch of tlio New Zealand Institute dosird to convoy to tlio Very .; Rov. Dr. Kennedy their appreciation of .the great-services rendered by him to tho causa, of science in this district,' and whilst congratulating him on his promotion to another l . l field of labour, they regret his departure asV representing a serious loss to the community, \ especially in tho astronomical and meteoror. logical work, for Which; his observatory; at j Meeaneo lias become famous. ■

Tho Napior contribution to tho Dr. Ban- v nardo homos during tho visit of tho Rev. W. J. Mayor and his party amounted 'to : £225. ■ Mr. J. Croucher, foreman of the corporation works, who h»s been granted six months' Icavo of absence by the Napior Borough Council on account of ill-hnalth, was last, evening 'presented with, a .puree, of sovereigns by the corporation staff,.