PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 15032, 14 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

_ At last night’s meeting of the City Council Miss Violet Morrison was appointed to the position of probationer at the Public Library at a salary of £4O per annum. Mr W. T. M'Farlane, member of Dunedin Drainage Board and St. Hilda- Council, has returned to town after a lengthy trip to the Continent and Old Country. The Rev. 0. Dallaston will take up work in the Oaversbam Baptist Church on the first Sunday in December. The Mornington Church is sending a unanimous invitation to the Rev. Frank Oldreivo, now in England, but recently of the Congo Mission. Mr Oldreive is one of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon’s pupils. .Mr William M'Elrea, 8.E., head master of the Balclntha District High School since 1896, has been appointed by the Education Board to the position of head master of the Dunedin Normal School, vice Mr E. Finder, promoted to the principalship of the Training College. Mr M'Elrea entered the board's service as an assistant at the Green Island School.

At the Wellington Competitions yesterday Miss E. Churchill (Dunedin) was awarded second place in the Shakesperean recital lor ladies.

Of Earl Granville, the Councillor of the British Embassy at Berlin, it is said that he starts with half a crown more than most people. When he was a young man, with the courtesy title of Lord'Leveson, he used to perform conjuring tricks with coins, and in one of these lie swallowed half a crown by mistake. All efforts to dislodge it proved unavailing, and as he seemed none the worse for it the coin was allowed to remain.