GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL TOUR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1910, Page 8

GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL TOUR.

♦ [BY TELEGKAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FEILDING, 22nd May. Lord Plunket paid a farewell visit here yesterday, and was presented with an address from the Mayor and residents. WANGANUI, 22nd May. His Excellency the Governor is paying a farewell visit to Wanganui. He arrived by special train yesterday afternoon. In the evening a well-attended public meeting was held, when his Excellency was presented with a gold fountain pen to commemorate the part he has played in signing various proclamations, and deeds connected with Wanganui's municipal history. To-day the Governor was taken for a motor trip. He leaves in the morning. HAWERA, This Day. When the Governor arrived here this morning there was a. large assemblage of the military and citizens. The Mayor presented his Excellency with an illuminated address. Lord Plunket appropriately replied. ELTHAM, This Day. The Governor was met here by the Mayor and councillors and member for the district. Whilst hce he visited the Salvation Army Boys' Jlome.

The weather to-day has been fine, with a slight chill in" the air. "Blue sky" prevails over the greater part of both islands, with lising barometer ; the exceptions are few and unimportant. Yesterday in Wellington was a perfect clay of spring weather; slight showers fell after about 9 p.m. ''Cool and changeable" weather is the forecast of the Meteorological Department, and fairly heavy sea on the liast Coast. It is understood that the police will prefer further charges aganis-t Edward John Falkmei, «* telegraphist, who wm found guilty of theft of pianos on Thursday last. Falkiner, it will be iemembsred, succeeded in obtaining ct-i-tain. letters from the Dead Letter Office ;is a result of representations which he made, and he will now bo charged with breaches of the Post Office Act. Mr. F S. Hutton ox the clerical staff of the Palmerston Supreme and Magistrate's Courts, has beer promoted to the position of Clerk of the Court at Coromandel, Auckland. Mr. Hutton, who has just retired from active football, has- shown, states the Stanchad, exceptional jjromise a*, a referee. A private cable message, received in vVellington this morning, conveys news of the death of Mrs. Priscilla Levy, widow of Mr. Alfred L. Levy, who was licensee of the Central Hotel on Lambton-quay up till about ten years ago. The deceased, who was a native of Launceston, had been ailing for some years, and it was on account of her health that she and Jier husband removed to Melbourne. Mr. Levy died in Melbourne about seven years ago, and his widow, who was a sister of Mr. M. Nathan (Te Aro Hotel) and Mr. Phil Nathan (New Zealand Railway Department), afterwards became licensee of the Orrong Hotel, Armidale, a suburb of Melbourne, where she died on Saturday night. She has left two sons and two daughters. Mesers. W. 11. Morrah and Co. will hold an auction sale of furniture and eundries in their rooms- to-morrow.