PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 4 September 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Lady Stout and her daughter intend to leave England for New Zealand on the 20th of this month.

The Taranaki Agricultural Society last night unanimously elected Mr J. S. Connett as its president for the ensuing year, vice Mr W. Ambury resigned.

Mr Mark Sinclair, for many years chairman of Mr J. A. Millar's permanent election committee, died at Dunedin yesterday, aged 69 years.

The death occurred at Wanganui on Sunday of Mrs Jane Ormsbee, relict of the late Mr George Wilson Ormsbee, aged seventy-eight years. Mrs Ormsbeewas the daughter of the late Mr Henry Nathan, one time Mayor of Wanganui, and was the mother of Mrs C. H. Chavannes, senior.

Mr Robert McNab, noted for his researches into the beginning of New Zealand history, recently wrote in this humorous strain to the New Zealand 5 Times, in reference to a, groundless charge against him: "Accept my warmest thanks for defending me against Dr. Newman's statement, made under the cover of Parliamentary privilege and in my absence in Australia, that"l was irt receipt of £500 a year of the country's money for historical research. You have my statement that I never received" enough to buy a stamp to post a single manuscript -to the Government Printer. It is bad enough to be cursed with a hobby that is as expensive as keeping a stable of racehorses without having Parliamentary George Washingtons on your track."