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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13933, 15 December 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL.

JVIr J. M'Arthur has arrived in Christchurch from Hanmer. Mrs J. Williams went south yesterday by the second express. Mr H. Friedlander returned to Ashburton yesterday morning. The position •of kindergarten mistress at the Wellington Training. College for Teachers 'has been given to Miss Rachel Richmond. There were twelve applications from Great Britain and eighteen from New- Zealand and Australia. Miss Richmond was formerly in Christchurch and Wellington., but for the last four years has been in England. Mi- 0. A. Nobelius. of the Gernbrook Nurseries, Victoria, us in Christchurch, in the course of a tour through New Zealand. Mr R. Trist Searell, who has been appointed judge of'the Launceston militaa-y and musical contest, will leave for Tasmania to-day. Sir Joseph Ward left for Wellington by the s.r. Mararoa yesterday evening. ■ The Rev F. Shiner and Mr F. de C. Malet were passengers- for Wellington yesterday evening by tho s.e. Mararoa. Sir William Steward is at present visiting Ashburton. ■ During a recent voyag© of on© of the steamers of the Whit© Star lino, the chief officer was taken dangerously ill, and but for the prompt measures taken by Nurse Lloyd, of Wellington, who was' on board, returning from a six-years' training period in the'London Hospital, the officer would have succumbed. Instead lie made a phenomenal recO'Very. w For her services Nurse Lloyd was presented by the officers of the ship with a si'ver tea service. The company, on the matter being reported to the London office, decided to mark its sense of appreciation of Nurse- Lloyd's services, and accordingly despatched to her an elaborate dressing-case, furnished with articles of solid silver. Mr J. T. Cumniings, the purser of the lonio, made tho presentation at. Wellington on Tuesday.