PRESENTATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6567, 4 December 1882, Page 3 (Supplement)

PRESENTATIONS.

• At the regular monthly meeting of the KoJnuy JLod S e, No. 1711, K.C., held on Thursday, the ilGth Uet., a handsome P.M.'s jewel was presented to Bro. Charles Thomson, I. P.M., and bearing the following inscription : — "Presented to Brc. Charks Thomson, I. P.M., by the officers and brethren of Lodge Koduey, .So. 1711, E.C. The presentation wis made by Bro. M. W. Alunro, P.M. J;. •■■. Thomson, who had been taken by surprise, returned his most hearty thanks in appropriate terms. The members of the Poneonby Choral Society hav« presented Miss Koy, their pianist for the past year, with a handsome gold Hatch, chain, and ring, as a slight token of their appreciation of her services, rendered voluntarily during that period. Jii .September last a very gallant rescue was eiieeted at H.ilensvitle, iwipura, the eiieum-st-iiices of which wwc fully detailed in our columns at the time. A lady fell over iuto the nver at night, nnd Mr. Henry Hull plunged in alter litr and rescued her, at the imminent peril of hie own life. The circumstances litre brought under the notice of the Vielorian Koyal Humane Society, the only branch of tli.it society in the Australian colonies, and they have promptly recognised the bravery of Mr. Hull, by awarding to him the society's certificate. This was torwarded to iiia Worship the Mayor to be presented to Mr. Hull, and the presentation took place ou Nov. 'J in the committee-room of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association at Green Lane, Ellerslie, with a lew complimentary remarks oy His Worship. Mr. Hull begged His Worship to return his sincere thanks to the Victorian Humane Society for the certificate they had forwarded to him.

An address, together with a handsome silver butter cooler, was presented to Miss Allan, the assistant teacher of the Cambridge West School, on the occasion of her leaving. The address was sigued by the chairman of the local committee, the head teacher, and the three senior pupils on behalf or the whole school. A pleasing incident took place at the Telegraph Office on Nov. 25, namely, the presentation of a silver watch to Master \V. C. Strong, for eight years a distributor in the Auckland Telegraph Department, by the officers of the department, as a token of respect. He is leaving the service in order to enter a merchant's warehouse, and it must be gratifying to find that during his service in tile Telegraph Department he has so fulfilled his duties as to secure the approbation ami good-will of his superior officers.