PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr A, W. Lilly, F.G.C.M.. begins bis duties as organist and choirmaster of All Saints’ Church to-morrow.

Mr J. H. Baird has been recommended foe the. position of head master of the Wairuna School.

The estate of the late Sir Henry Tich borne has been valued at £144,630.

A requisition is being circulated in Christchurch for preivmlation to Mr J. D. Kali, aching him to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the

mayoralty at the coming election (says our ('hristchurch com-spi inlent). Tie petition lias heen Mum-I already by a large number of people, representing different hiieret-is in the cify, as well as by several members) of the City Council. Mr Hall, who is a non of iiu> late Sir John Hall, has filled several pnblie positions, ami is at present chairman of the fire Hoard. Probably the present mayor (Mr C. Allison) will also he a candidate. The He.v. TI. S. Cray, well known as a Prohibition leader, will leave Christchurch oil iJecembi r 15. lie has held the pastorale of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church for over eielil years, and feels that the ttrain of the work necr-ssStates a change, and iho rhmrh has entnted him furlough for nine months, reports “ Our Own.” Sir and .Mis Gray will visit Australia and (hen proceed lo India to inspect and report 11)101] the mission worth that is being <lone by the New Zealand Baptist churches in Bialiinanbaria and Chandpur. They will then go to Kn, gland and America, where limy will represent the New Zealand churches at the pan-Baptist Congress to he held next year in Philadelphia. A London message states that Mr J. Henry, an oil expert, is a passenger by the Mantua. He visits New Zealand, the United Slater, and the Par East in the interests of colonial od, An Adelaide message states that the Speaker of the Assembly, Sir Jcukeu Coles, has not missed a single sitting (hiring twenty-one years of office. Mr Donald Munro, 8.A.. has been appointed head icichor of the Tuapdca Mouth School.

A Wellington telegram .slates that Klsio MacDongall, of Dunedin, a pupil of Miss Vorston. is the. winner of the gold medal given by Lord Islington for competition l,v New Zealand students in connection with 'Trinity College, London.