PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 177, 29 July 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr S. Greville-Smifch (late editor of this journal) will leave for Wellington Tby the morning train to-morrow. Mr F. Parsons has~ been elected president of the Kaikoura Racing Club. The appointment of' Mr W. R. Morris as assistant secretary and inspector, Post and Telegraph Department, is gazetted. • Mr W. G. Runcie, Government ' . auditor, is in Blenheim in connection with the examination of the Receiver of Land Revenue's annual statement. A Press Association telegram from Ashburton states that Mr Joseph Ward, one of the oldest residents of, the town, died on Saturday morning, aged 92. He had been a resident of the town for 36 years. He was the first schoolmaster, the founder of the Public Library, and filled many public positions. . Miss Isitt, who has resigned from ' the position of assistant secretary to the New Zealand Alliance, has been granted a month's holiday in order that she might visit Australia before •' undertaking dutie3 in another appointment. The Alliance Executive, Kin accepting her resignation with re^ , ' grei, passed a resolution referring aulogistically to Miss Isitt's work in the past four and a half years, especially during the absence of her father, and in assisting to edit the Vanguard.