PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr J. MidgJey received a hanging lamp from the employees and a cheque from the firm on the occasion of his leaving the Dtmedin Engineering and Steel Company's employ. Mr Stevenson, in making the presentation, referred to the esteem in which Mr Midgley was held, and to the capable manner in which be l.*d looked after the firm's interests during the eight years ho was in charge of the foondi;.". News has been received by cablegram that Mr S. P. Waddington, examiner »o the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Musio, will not u© able to visit New Zealand, as previously announced. The examinations will Dberefoxe be oondncted by Mr Graham P. Mooi-e, who is well known throughout the iol «ny, having acted as examiner on two pievious occasions—in 1899 and in 1904. The King has retnrced to London from the Continent Misß Nellie Wilson, formerly a member of the Pollard Opera Company, has left Australia for Sooth Africa meter engagement to the Messrs Wheeler. A Wellington message records the death of the Rev. Wm. John Dean, Primitive Methodist, who had been stationed in varions parts of the colony, including Auckland, Invercargill, Timaru, and Geraldine. The deceased, who was eighty years of age, arrived in ths colony in i 867.