PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10423, 22 April 1897, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. D. Babbie has been elected chairman of the Dunedin Education Board, The Hon. J. D. Ormond has been reelected chairman of the Napier Education Board. Mr. G. Hunter, M.H.R., is to be entsrtained by his supporters at * banquet at Danetirke to-morrow. The New Zealand war medal has been issued to William Bardell, late private No. 1 Division, Armed Constabulary Force. Captain John Gibb, late of the Rotomahana, is now in charge of the Waihora, Captain Neville being away on holiday Mr. George Bull, a Sydney pressman, who recently left for England, has been appointed Paris correspondent of the London Mail. The Lake County Press understands that Mr. P. and Miss Flannery, of Arrowtown, have come in for a legacy of £10,000 each through the death of a relative in Queensland. .... One of the oldest marine engineers in the colony, Mr. Louis Martin, well remembered for his thrilling escape from the steamer Boojum when that vessel capsized at Napier, is now a resident of Wellington. Ho has retired from the sea, and acquired * tobacconist's business on Lambton Quay. '• Amongst the candidates who passed the examination for licenses as shorthand writers held at the Melbourne Law Court* on the 3rd instant, was a New Zealander, Mr. A. W. Nicol, who was one of the four who passed the test of taking questions and answers at the rate of 150 words a minute. News is to hand from Paris of a recent " matinee musicale" at the Ecole Marchesi, in which Miss Cecile Staunton (Mme. Goldenetedt) sang with marked success. Mme. Marchesi describes her pupil's voice as a rare dramatic mezzo, of splendid compass, which she expects will have been fully trained by the end of July. Mr. J. B. Christie, who for the last two years has held an important position in Mr. J. Herbert Hankins' office, Palmers ton, has accepted an engagement from Messrs. Thome and Reed, barrister! and solicitors, of Auckland. Mr. Christie, who leaves for his new home at the end of the month, wiil take with him the best wishes of bis friends in Palmerston for his future success. Mr. Carey James Pirie, now employed in the Imperial Chinese revenue cruiser Feichoo, writes that he has successfully passed as chief engineer, and that heowee his position and success (like most of the Phoenix Foundry apprentices) to the thorough care and personal attention of Mr. George Fraser and sons. Mr. Pirie is a son of Major Pirie, of Parnell. At the recent University examination! in New South W»lei,Mr. T. Rainiford Bavin, 8.A., eon of the Rev. Rainsford Bavin (formerly of New Zealand), was very successful, taking the LL.B. degree with first-class honours, including the gold medal. It is stated that this is only Abe second time in connection with the University that the combination of excellence has been shown. Mr. Bavin will shortly be admitted as a barrister. Our Waipn correspondent writes Mrs. Urquhart, the wife of Mr. PhillipUrqali&rS, of the Millbrook district, died somewhat suddenly on the evening of April 19, on ' taking leave of her daughter, Mrs. Duncan McLean, who, with her husband, is leaving there for Tairua. Mrs. Urquhart was a woman well advanced in yean, and haa been suffering some time from the effects of a paralytic stroke, and the ixcitoment engendered by partigg from her daughter ' seems to have been too much for her enfeebled system, u she expired almost in the act of bidding her daughter good- • bye. ■' ________ v 'y{