PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9167, Issue 9167, 16 March 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr John Rankin, Town Clerk at Feilding, has resigned owing to failing health.

According to "Cricket" (a Home publication), Mr A. G. Relf, who left for England on Thursday by the Ruapehu, will receive £500 for his services a* "coach" in Auckland — about three months' work. In previous seasons,' says the same authority, he was paid £350.

Mr Peter Georgeson, chief of the front office staff of the Evening Post, was on Saturday the recipient of presentations from the proprietors, Messrs Blundell Bros., and the combined staffs, on. the occasion of his approaching marriage with Miss Mouat O'Brien, of Utiku. Mr Georgeson joined the staff as far back as 1881 as a copy boy. Best wishes were expressed for the future welfare of the recipient and his bride-to-be.

Lord Kitchener, with his sister, Mrs Parker, and Mr Parker, passed through Palmerston by motor yesterday on their way to Wellington. The party loft Dannevirke at 8.30 a.m., and came South via the Gorge. They arrived at Palmerston at 11.30, and went on to Waikanae, which was reached at 3.30. They stayed at Mahara House last night, going on to Wellington at 8 a.m. this morning. Lord Kitchener intended to catch the Mokoia at Wellington this afternoon and to visit Rarotonga and the Cook Islands, joining the Vancouver steamer at Sydne3 7 ..

Ohariu on Monday saw the passing of two old residents, 'Mrs Emma Kilsby, relict of the late Mr George- Kilsby; and Mrs Beech, wife of Mr William Beech. Both deceased arrived in Wellington in the Oliver Laing in 1856, and shortly after Mrs Kilsby settled with her husband in Ohariu. During their residence in Ohariu, the deceased have lived almost side by side, and it is a coincidence that they should pass away within a few minutes of each other. Mrs Kilsby leaves seven sons and 22 grandchildren, the former including Messrs H. Kilsby (Fitzherbert East), T. Kilsby (•Tiritea), W. Kilsby (Himatangi), and G. Kilsby (Kereru). Mrs Beech is survived by her husband, two sons, and four daughters, and nine grandchildren. The deceased were both known for their kindly disposition, and the sympathy of friends is widely distributed.

A London correspondent writes: Mr A. A. Stewart, of Greymouth and Kumara, has just come to London from Terra del Fuego to spend a brief holiday in the Old Country before going back to New Zealand. An engineer by profession, Mr Stewart has made a speciality of mining dredges. His line of business is building and erecting steel dredges, and then taking charge of ; and running them. '"I was engaged," he told me, "by the Compania Rio-Perez, to work on their dredge in Terra del Fuego, and last winter I had charge of , the Compania Sutphen de Lavaderos de *oro. The dredging in Terra del Fuego was a failure. A party of New Zealanders, under Mr E. H: Watson, have the Company Rio Verde, and tho Company Rio del Oro under tribute this year, and I understand are doing well. Mr Watson is well known in Alexandra, New Zealand. During my travels in South America I rjjet many New Zcalandcrs, and it was always, tho same, whether in Terra del Fuego, Argentine. or London, I received a hearty welcome."