PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr P. 08. Loughnan, S.M., is conducting the business in the' Magistrate's Court at Nelson.this week.

Dr and Mrs Truby King are expected to arrive in Wellington from London by the RTrapehu'qn February 3.' . •'■ •■-

Mr E. S. Hylton, secretai-y to the Marlborough Education Board, left for Wellington to-day. on departmental business.

Mr H. A. Stratford, headinasfter of the Inglewood (Taranaki) School, Tvtio has been visiting Blenheim, returned to Wellington to-day. - .■,>■ .■ .

>A cablegram from Paris reports the death of General Paequarb,. the champion of. Dreyfus. He fell from Trie horse and stßuck his bead on the! frozen ground. ' "' : With, a total of 229® marks,; Ivor '&. Prichard, a pupil of the Marlborough High School, ■qualified--for matriculation at tike University .^entrance scholarship examination held in December. •'

A London cable TnessageTieports the death, at Cardiff, of Sir 'John Duncan, part proprietor o/f:'the South Wales Daily News; Sorrfli IVales Echo, and Cardiff Times.; ■- He organised, with "Baron de Iteiiter, 'Reuters special service of Toreigri ah 3 colonial telegrams! .

Advice has Treen received Jpcally that Mr W.. A. G. Penlington.iVl.A., who has actedl as science niaster at the MarlboroTigTi High Scliodl jtering the past year,, has ;been • offered and accepted 'the position of <KJience tutor at the . A^tcTdaiid Teadhers^ 'Training College. ■ '

' In tho Priblic Service entrance i examinatwsm. held in November, ! Douglas A. Young : and Henry j Handcock, pircpils oif the lilarlibctrough High School, weEe OTOcesdful. Lewis G. Eyre, now,-of "Westjfort, but "formerly of Blonheim, gaineVi^a.'credit :pass. ■ * ■.. ;; : .•■■'''■;■'

The following appointments have boon made T>y the Marlborough Education Boarfl: Probationers— Miss A. M. Pigou, to the Rapaura school", yliss R. Murphy, to the Marlbonoughton 'School; TKiss, A. Hilliard, to ( th.c SpKnglands sdhopl. ' Pupil +eachei^—Miss Gladys Higgs, and I. G. PricTiau-d, to i;he Blenheim school; Miss M. H;, Ne-wmaoft, to' ifhe Picton 'school

Mr Alfred Ferris, who was admitted toI'the ~Wairau Hospital on, Sunday suffering troin injuries received during thp fracas aJt^eadon pn Saturday night, vrajs reported, ijhjp morning to :be making Slow progress, His injuries axe stated to consist of. two broken ribs, two severe scalp .woiinds, injuries to both ej'es, abrasion® of the face.- and1 bruises, seemipg;ly caused by a blunt instrument.

A Dunedin Press Association message stales that the ,■ following Blenheim students have, passed their matriculation:—.T. M. MacMorrin, matriculation anrl' solicitors general knowledge; G. M.. Broiighton and L. A. Craven, ma-fcriculation, . solicitor's general knowledge, and medical preliminary; R. F. T. Grace and Gwynneth M. "M. fteid (completed), tnlian E. Falkiwr. 3T.~W.HafI, 'Gladys B. Higgs, Rogis F. Mtirphy-,-,Bosa M. Innes, and Agnes M. Pigou. , ' Miss Frances Morrison,- the wellknown contralto, has Teteroed to Blenheim after spending a-.year at Wellington as a memher of W& "teaching Staff !of St. Mary's €on^efet; and has resumed the teaching qranging arid voice production m wiis town. Her last appearance of, note on the public platform was in fhe recent production of "Elijah 13 at Nelson, in which she fulfilled a leading engagement with -marked success. Hiss Morrison is a Lioentiate of £he Associated Board, is an experienced teacher, and her resumption' of professional Work in Blenheim will T>e a gain to local musical caroles.