PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9481, 10 April 1894, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb- Bej.NET, of Beaney and Sons, Arch Hill, Is, we regret to learn, very seriously ill. . . Mr. Ryan, artist, recovering from an attack of typhoid fever. Dr. and Mrs. Grace, of Wellington, have been for a trip to Mount Cook, and are expected back shortly. His Honor Judge Backhouse, M.A., has been unanimously re-elected Vice-Chancel-lor of Sydney University. According to the Hebrew Times, Mr. Soltan, formerly of Sydney, but now of Kew Zealand, is about to receive a legacy cf £90,000. The Rev. W. Ronaldson and family were passengers to the South yesterday by the Union S.S. Company's steamer Takapuna from the Mannkau. Major General Button is said, by a Melbourne paper, to be a rich man, apart from his salary as commandant. He is credited with the possession of an income of £10,000 per annum. The marriage of Miss Henderson, daughter of Mr. John Henderson, of Ponsonby, and Mr. Edwin Harding, of the isorthern Wairoa, will be celebrated at All Saints' Church on the afternoon of April 25. Mr. W. Griffith, brewer, on the occasion | of his approaching marriage, was the re- ; cipient of a very nice wedding gift from the employees of the firm of Messrs. Ehrenfried Brothers, consisting of a handsome marble clock as well as a beautiful full dinner set. Mr E. C. Purdie, assistant master of the Thames High School, is to receive three months' notice of the termination of his engagement, jW the Governors are retrenching owing to shortness of funds. Mr. Purdie was educated in Auckland, and was formerly a teacher under the Auckland Board of Education. He has an excellent reputation in his profession. Mr. P. G. Dalgety, whose death has been announced by cable, was the founder of the firm of Dalgety and Co., established by him in the year 1846 in Melbourne. The fortunes of the firm were first laid by a great coup effected by the management in buying gold and shipping it to England in 1852, Mr. Daleety was a keen man of business, but at the same time bis liberality was unstinted. It is related of him that he settled on one of the firm's earliest constituents who had come to grief an annuity of £300. He received absolutely no commercial training —simply the education of an ordinary English gentleman—yet the firm founded by him at the present day estimates its capital at £4,000,000 sterling.