PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The members of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir presented Mias Ethel Clarke with some slight token of their esteem and regard prior to her departure for Melbourne. The Ven. Archdeacon Robinson, in making the presentation, expressed great regret that the Cathedral was losing the services of so valuable a member. The presentation oonsisted of a handsomelybound Cathedral Service and Hymnal. Mr Dickinson returned thanks on behalf of the recipient.

At a representative gathering. of business people and residents of Tapanui Mr aind Mrs P. M'Cann, who were recently burnt out-, were presented with a purse of 100 sovereigns. A Westport telegram states that Mr T. Ha" Mackenzie, station-master in charge of Westport, who entered the railway service under the Provincial Government of Otago in 1875, died suddenly" of heart failure on the wharf at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. On severing . her connection with the Merino Downs School, at a social given in her honor Miss Flora Hopcraft' was presented with a handsome gold muff chain and pendant.

Mr and Mrs William Croft left by the mid-day express for Lyttelton, where they catch the Moura for the South Sea Islands trip. Mr and Mrs C. Tilburn intend payiDg a short visit to the Old Country, and will leave next month by the s.s. Corinthic. A pleasant surprise was sprung on Mr William Hargreaves, of Caversham,. at St. Peter's Hall last evening, when he was invited to an impromptu concert, the object of which the Chairman (Mr T. B. Leyland) explained was to congratulate him on having reached his seventy-first year, and to present him _ with a gold Maltese cross suitably inscribed, a silvermounted walking stick, a cigaretteholder, a matchbox, and a pocket-book from his friends. In making the presentation, Mr Leyland referred to the esteem in which Mr Hargreaves was held by all. The entertainment consisted of a Highland fling, an Irish jig, and sailor's hornpipe danced by the Misses Leyland (3). Songs were given by Messrs Brady, J. Douglas, and R. Richardson. Miss E. Graham acted as accompanist, and Pipe-major J. M'Kechnie also contributed to the evening's amusemeut.