PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14980, 28 April 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr A. Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum, in Wellington, arrived in Christchurch yesterday and went on to Dunedin by the urst express. He will return to Christchurch on Friday evening, and will go on to Wellington on Saturday evening. At the City Council meeting in Wellington on Monday, the retiring Mayor, the Hon T. W. Hislop, was presented with a silver inkstand and a silver pen, and Mrs Hislop with a silver fountain pen. Eulogistic speeches were made by the councillors. At Hinds on Thursday Mr T. Gibbs, on behalf of the Hinds Tennis Club, presented the Rev H. G. Blackburae and Mrs Blackburne with a Kaiapoi rug, ou the occasion of their leaving the district. At Ashburton on Friday, Constable M'Lennan, who has been promoted to Kaiisoura after having been two years and a half in Ashburton, was presented with a caso of pipes by the members of the police force. Sergeant Fonhy, who made the presentation, spoko highly of Constable M'Lennan. On Monday night Constablo M'Lennan's friends tendored him a farewell social gathering, and presented him with a set of gold sleeve links. Mrs F. Narbey, an old resident of Lonp: Bay and Akaroa, died on Friday ab the age of -seventy-four years. She arrived with her parents, Mr and Mrs Magco, in the Duko of Bronte in 1851, and walked from Lyttelton to Banlra Peninsula. On arrival at Long Bay the family resolved to stop, and began dairying under great difficulties. They persevered, however, and prospered. Mr Magee, father of the deceased, was lost in the bush which then covered the hills, and was found dead aftor three weeks' search. In 1856 Miss Magee married Mr Francois Narbey. They had a family of eighteen children.