PRESENTATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8473, 26 January 1891, Page 10

PRESENTATIONS.

On the 20th January Mr. A. C. Whitney was presented by the employes of the Colonial Ammunition Company, Limited, with a handsome black marble clock on the occasion of his approaching marriage. The clock was subscribed for by the whole of the employes here as a mark of the respect and esteem they have for Mr. Whitney, the manager of the Auckland Branch of the Company. After a few short and appropriate remarks from Mr. W. Fraser, the chief engineer of the works, the presentation was made by Mr. K. Teutenberg, and Mr. Whitney responded. Thanking all for the kindly feeling shown, and expressing his high estimation of their present to him. The clock bore an inscription of the good wishes entertained for the future happiness and prosperity of the bride and bridegroom. On Jan. 18 Master J. McGuire, on behalf of the Sacred Heart Sunday-school children, presented Father Lenihan with a beauti-fully-carved music stand and an address, expressing their gratitude to him for the untiring zeal he had always shown in their religious instruction, and their deep at his early departure from amongst them. Father Lenihan, in a few well-chosen words, thanked the children for their handsome present, and said that nothing could give him such real pleasure as the fact that he possessed the affection and good feeling of these little ones. On January 14 Mr. J. R. Powell, who has been connected with the Auckland Telephone Exehange for a number of years, an 1 who left on Jan. 15 to take charge of the Exchange at Napier, was presented by hi s fellow-officers with a handsome gold chair, as a memento of the cordial relations wbica existed between them. The chief steward of the [Northern Steamship Company's steamer Clansman, Mr. Malcolm McLeod, and brother of the late Constable Neil McLeod, whose lamentable murder on the Northern Wairoa is still fresh in the remembrance of our citizens, has received a handsomely illuminated address from the residents of Darenville, which was to have been presented to the deceased officer on his transfer to Auckland. The address expresses the regret of the residents of Dargaville at Constable McLeod's revoval from the district, and is signed by the leading settlers. I> ; ® address has an ornamental border, relievec with Masonic emblems, Mr. McLeod, belonging to the Masonic fraternity- Mrs. McLeod, the widow of the unfortunate officer, has now had the address handed over to her. ; A pleasing occurrence took place on Thursday, the Bth January, being the occasion of the presentation of a handsome testimonial to Mr. H. R. Bell, station-master, by the residents of Huntly, on the occasion of his leaving the district to take charge 0 Te Aroha Railway Station. The presentation, a handsome marble clock, with a suitable inscription, which was on view tor some days at Messrs. Friar, Davies, a" Co.'s store, was accompanied by a letter'expressing the regret of the Huntly folk aJ , Mr. Bell's departure, and wishing him a" Mrs. Bell a happy and prosperous fu' l, career.

The annual report of the Wellington G«« Company shows receipts for the year to «- £31,062, including £1496 brought for*a£ from the previous year. The profit anion' to £10,646, and the directors recomine > a further dividend of 6 per cent., maKi 0 12 per cent, for the year.