PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Tho Primate has granted six montlis leave of absenco to tho Veil. Archdeacon Neikl vicar of St. Mary's, Mormngtou, who will pay a visit to England, leaving Duncdin in January. Miss M. P. Arnold, who has been promoted to the Waiwera .School, was entertained at a farewell social arranged in her honor by the Hillend School Committee. Mr J. A. Aitken, in presentuig tho guest of tho evening with a gold brooch and a purse of money, expressed tho regret o. the Committee in losmg one of tho most capable teachers tho district had had, and also their pleasure at her promotion. Mr J. Arnold replied on behalf of the recipient. . . Dr Barclay, of Thames, arrived in Invercardll to-dav to take over the supermtendency of'tho Southland Hospital, vice Dr Hendrv, who has resigned. Dr Hendry was last night presented by tho staff with a valuable acknowledgment of his services, the gifts comprising an arm chair and a tobacco pouch for himself, and a silver entree dish for Mrs Hendry. Dr Hendry, who suitably replied, will set up in pnvato practice in Invercargill (says " Our Own "). Dr William Brown, who has been absent from Dtmediu for some years, first in the North Island and subsequently in Glasgow, reached Duncdin to-day by the first express from the North. Mr E. T. Lawn, the well-known local silver, has been brought almost to death's door by an attack of pneumonia, which seized him just after tho recent benefit to Mts Loring. at which he sang. His nianv friends will bo glad to learu that ho has'"turned the corner," and is recovering rapidly. . . Count Tolstov's will, which is dated July 5, leaves all the rights in connection with his books to his daughter Alexandra. Mr H. C. Woods, late of the Grenadier Guards, has been appointed British VneConsul at Adana (Asia Minor). Mr B. Parsons,' ox-president of trio Laborers' Union, was presented with a gold chain and inscribed medal. Mr 11. Kendall, Mr P. Delahunty, Mr J. E. MacManus, and Mr Riley expressed their appreciation of the services Mr Parsons had rendered the union since its inception, and the historv of the union, now 1,050 strong, was outlined. On one occasion, said Mr M'Allen, one of tho speakers, a collection had to bo taken up among outsiders to keep the union going. Now the union was strong enough to influence Governments, as the Stone Quarries Kill and other concessions showed. Miss Brevxla Stock, of this City, has been engaged to sing the contralto solos in 'The Messiah' at Wellington and Duncdin, and also in ' Elijah' at I'V.ilding, and New Plvmouth. Miss Stock has lieen studying under Mr Spencer Lr>rraino for tho past two years. Tho death is aiinouneod of Mr ,1. A. Mitchell, aged sixty-three yeais, an auctioneer well known'in Southland. He was one of iSoutnland's earliest pioneers (jays an lnvetcaruill P.A. wire], and was prominently identified with agricultural and pastoral affairs. Ho was Mayor of East Invercargill for fifteen years. Deceased loaves a widow and grown-up family. The liev. D. J. Steole. M.A., for the past seven years iniiuMer "f the Presbyterian Church at Rangiora, died at Auckland on Saturday. Ho had just sent in his resignation, 'with the. intention of settling at Auckland. Tho death is also announced of Dr J. E. We-ld, of Oxford, Canterbury. He arrived in New Zealand in the sixties.