PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 22, 26 July 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Messrs. A. T. Clarke, R. B. Grange, William John Huoston, and R. W. Armit were yesterday elected members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Robert (Bert) Stout, a son of Sir Robert Stout, and the younger of the two brotners now at Guy's Hospital, London, has passed as M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P Dr. S. E. V. Brown, formerly of Dunedin, who was on the staff of Wellington Hospital for two years, gained his M.R.C.S. degree, London, immediately after his arrival in the Old Country. The Palmerston South District High School has selected Mr. John R. Rutherford, M.A., as headmaster. Mr. Rutherford (says a Press Association telegram), ia attached to tho Wanganui District High School. I Mr. L. H. Herdman, ot the Christchurch Telegraph Office, who has been stationed at Christchurch for the last nine years and has been transferred to Wellington, was presented on Saturday evening by the members of the local staff with "a handsome .geld albert and pendant, suitably inscribed. Eulogistic reference was made 10 the able and conscientious manner in which Mr. Herdman had carried out his duties, and great regret was expressed at his departure. The Rev. J. R. Burgin has arrived in Auckland to assist Canon MaeMurray in the Cathedral. In 1892 Mr. Burgin went to Mashonaland to assist Bishop Knight Bruct> in laying the- foundations of the Church's work when the pioneers first entered that country, after it was brought under the British flag. In 1899 he went to Haussaland, in British Northern Nigeria, with Bishop Tugwell, and the first pioneer party to Northern Nigeria. Mr. Burgin begins his duties at the Cathedral at once. An interesting intr'acte in the performance of "Richard III." by the Shakespeare Club last evening was a presentation made to Mr. J. W. Joynt, who is to leave for London. The parting gift took the form of a solid silver smoker's box, and the presentation was made by Mr. H. E. Nicholls, on behalf of his fellow-members. Mr. Joynt replied that to say he was touched by the gift was to express his feelings inadequately. He had been connected with the Shakespeare Club since its inception eight years ago, and though he had been a member of many societies in Wellington, ho had drawn more solid pleasure from the Shakespeare Club than from any other. He had never attended a meeting without learning soniething that was of benefit to him. When he reach1 ed London he intended to join the parent society with which x the Wellington Club was affiliated, and he would not 1 omit to tell tho London institution of the brave little society he had left behind. Mr. C. R. Smith, formerly local manager of the Allianco Assurance Co. j in Dunedin, and lately appointed WolI lington manager* of the company, ap- , pears to have been a very active worker I in various local institutions during his twelve years' residence in Dunedin. At a presentation made by the Dunedin Fire Underwriteis, R. S. Menzies, the chairman, described Mr. Smith as a keen business man, who had given valuable services to the association. Mr. W. I. Bolam said Mr. Smith, as chairman of the Marine Underwriters' Association of Otago, had done a great deal of work on behalf of public institutions in Dunedin, and he felt sure Mr. Smith would manifest the same public spirit in Wellington. At a presentation by the Otago Cricket Association reference was made to Mr. Smith's services to the game, and to the fact that it was largely due to his exertions, that tho New Zealand Cricket Council was formed. The V.M.C.A. Board, too, recognised Mr. Smith's work on that body by a presentation, and the Hospital Satur- ' day Association also made a presentation to Mr. Smith for his labours on behalf of the fund. At a presentation from citizens, the Mayor of Dunedin and other sneakers referred to Mr. Smith's happy connections with educational, religious, philanthropic, artistic, and sporting activities.