PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Jas. Hadett has left for a trip to Sydney. Mr J. Sinclair Thomson caane back today after a visit to Australia.

As previously announced in these columns, Duntdm musical circles will shortly receive a notable acquisition in the person., of Mr Max Scherek, who intends settling down in his native city for the purpose of practising his profession as a. teacher of pianoforte and harmony. Tor the past three years Mr Max Scherek has been a pupil of the Royal Conservatoi’ium, Leipzig, where he made a special study of the art of teaching, although he had already proved his capability in that direction as a successful teacher on "the staff of St. Stanislaus College, New South Wales Apart from his personal merits, the talented elder son of Herr Benno and Mrs Scherek will undoubtedly be accorded a hearty welcome from their many friends In Dunedin. Under the( new scheme for admission to the navy, by which boys, after a preliminary examination, are, if successful, sent to Osborne College for probation and further examination, two such nominations are offered to New Zealand. The first of these has just been gained by Harold Studholme Barker, fifth son of Mi J. M. Barker, of Woodbury, and grandson of the late Dr Barker, of Christchurch, and the late Mr Michael Studholme, of Waimate, He left for England by the Athenic. Mr R. S. M‘Gowan, manager of the local branch of the Government Life Insurance Office, has been in ill-health for some time, and has been granted six months’ leave of absence. ' Mr ni'Gowan intends making a trip to the Home Country, and leaves for there by the Paparoa at the/ beginning of August. Mr G. A. Kennedy, of the Wellington office, undertakes the duties of local manager during that period.

At the close of the St. John Ambulance Association’s nursing class, Dr Butement was the recipient of a carriage clock as a small recognition of his services Mr Joseph Jones, who died at Oamaru on Thursday, was the first station-master at Christchurch, to which position he was appointed in 1865. From Christchurch he was transferred to Timaru in 1874, and was station-master there till 1892. when he retired from the railway service owing to ill-health. For some years he resided in Dunedin, but latterly his home has been with his .two eons, Messrs F. and E. Jones, of Oamaru. Mrs Sidney Wolf, his only daughter, died about three years ago, Mr James Gray, who subsequent to leaving Dunedin to take up on important position in the London bouse of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen made a tour of the firm’s branches throughout the colony, was entertained last evening by the beads of the various departments in Wclkneton, from which port he leaves per ’the 0 westry Grange on. Monday. Mr Gray’s health was proposed by Mr Laing, the local manager, and presentations of a case of pipes and an photo of the staff were made to Mr Gray during the evening. A Paris mssage advises that Madame Sarah Bernhardt has been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor. On the occasion of his leaving the Trustees Executors’ Company to • take up a position in the Otago Education Office, Mr G. W. Carrington was presented by Iris fellow clerks with a Set of razors ,as a token of the esteem in which he is beldl-