PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL

Dr L E. Uarnett returned to Dunodm ]:,st, niHit "fter a visit to Canada, and tho United Stale,;. Wr Jamws -Milk ii!.-:o reached town by tlio second expim;. Ou the- eve of the deparUuo of -Mr -J. C. Wvkoa from Dunedin, the firm and employees of Messrs Coulle, Culling, and Co. presented him with a gold-mounted walking litick. Mr J. F. Cuidiiic, m_ nuking tho presentation, referred to the high c«tuojii in which the recipient was beid, and wished liim every sueecw m his future career. Mi- Wykcs suit-ably replied. Mr -V L. Muir, editor of tho ' -Poverty Bay Herald,' Mrs M.uir, and Miss Taylor (of'Oamaru, ,'wterof Mrs Muiij are llome-ward-bound for the Coronation. They loavc by the Marama on January 20, jojiiIn u' Ihr (jiicisenau at .Sydney ci-lit days later. i -r i Mr \llan Tavlor has been elected J.oi'd Mayor of .Sydney for the thud eucwfisivc term. . . . . Kin<' Alphon.-:o of Spam intends to visit Melilla, on the north coast of Morocco, early in January. Tho following professors have- appointed to the newly-created Queensland Univmitv:—Chemistry, Dr «teclo i.Mcllounn;) ;" mathematics, Proi'ei-uior J'ne.uly (Cainb'ridge): cngiucrniig, Piofe-fur Cib--8..n (Sydney); classicd, l'roktsov -Micluo (Cambridge). The interment of Mrs Kddy look place at Mount, Auburn, near lioston (U.S.), oniv a lew of the public in addition to her relatives attending. Her age is uel down at ninety. At the Tabernacle Hall last evening Miss Olive Morton, who has rcbneuiishcd the position of organist of dm Church of Christ alter nine years' service, was entertained by the members of the choir. Air H. J). Trounce, choirmaster, on behalf of the. choir, presented to Miss Morton a spirit, kettle, on stand, ami referred to her loyalty to the choir and tho church at all times' Complimentary lemarks Ironi the evangelist, oilice-beareis, anc', a number of other members of the church *'. ere made in reference to the good work Miss .Morton had done, after which Mr J. W. Stokes returned thanks for Miss Morton. Th? hall was iinely decorate J. and the table arrangements were carried out under the direction of Mrs Justice and Miss A. White and their assistants.

Mr Kobeii Milligam Mayor of Oam.ini. and president of Hie Baptist Union, will addrecs iho I'aptist Young Men's Bible Ch'Bses-of ])iiT)«lin on the 14th inst.

Mr Alexander M'Millan, who has been connected with Messrs Kill; and Co., Ltd., for tlu! past twenty years, was, on severing his connection with that livni to-day, tlu; recipient of U'o presents—a case of Loewe pipes and a gold pendant suitably inscribed —as a mark of tlm esteem in which he is held by his fellow-employees. Mr James Davis, who made the presentation, referral to the, many excellent inialities of Mr M'Milian both as a worker and a friend, and remarked that nothing but the most cordial relationship had always existed between the rest of the employees and their friend, and assured him that his place would be hard to till.