PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 54, 14 February 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Armstrong, of Glengarry, Dannevirke, is in Napier to-day. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Cotterill returned to Napier by the mail train last evening. Mr. A. Guise is acting as private secretary to His Excellency the Governor, and Mr. A. C. Day is assistant private secretary. Nurse Hansen, who has just resigned from the Napier Hospital, is reported to be in very indifferent health.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Riddell, of Dannevirke, who have recently returned from a visit to the Old Country, are at present in Napier, and staying at the Masonic Hotel. Mr. John Maddison, of Sockburn, who arrived in Canterbury in 1&53, and was one of the first farmers at Templeton, died yesterday, aged 81 years. Mr. W. G. Bell left Napier by the express this morning, en route for the Old Country. He will join his sister at Auckland, and they will sail by the Athenic, Mr. H. Horton, of the “New Zealand Herald,” and Mr. L. P. Blundell, of the “Evening Post,” left Wellington last night for Queenstown, to attend a meeting of the directors of the New Zealand Press Association to be held there.

Madame My, and Misses Barr, i Elder, Fleischmann, Mallinson, and ! Nicholson, who were engaged fotj the professorial staff of Woodford e House School, Hastings, by Miss! Hodge during her recent trip to| England, arrived in Wellington by; the Tongariro on Saturday. They, arrived at Hastings by last evening’s express and are staying at the Pacific Hotel till the opening of the school on Friday next. Mr. R. M. Chadwick, of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, Dunedin, has received an appointment to the position of draughtsman with Messrs. J. Niven and Co., Napier. The drawing classes which have been conducted by Mr. Chadwick at the Dunedin Technical School are to be taken over by Mr. Drew, of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, and a special instructor will.be appointed for the other engineering classes. Mr. Charles W. Carter, who is one of the committee of the Pana-ma-Pacific International Exhibition which is to be held at San Francisco in 1915, to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, and who is visiting New Zealand for the purpose of bringing the great event under the notice of the people of the Dominion, was tn Hastings yesterday, and left this! morning for Palmerston North. He! visited Frimley, and was the gueht of Mr. E .Basil Jones. Mr. Career holds that the splendid resomees. of New Zealand are not known mj America, and recommends an act-! ive movement being made in the direction of carrying out a scheme) of national advertising throughout! the United States.