PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12175, 22 January 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• Mb. David GoiiDiE returned from bis visit .to the South by the Takapuna yesterday. Major J. M. T. Hay hurst, Mayor of Te- ' muka, and Mrs. Hayhurst, leave on Febmi<ary 5 on a visit to England. '■ The major .served- with our Third Contingent in South' ■ 'Africa. Mr. W. H. Crabtree, forborne years acS'S ! '& ? coW{ant'at the Kaiapoi Woolen Mills, who, •with Mrs. Crabtree, has been on a visit to England, proposes to take up mission work in Mexico. / An InvercargHl Press Association telegram states that Mr. Gilfedder, late memIber for Wallace, has been entertained at a . banquet, . and presented with a purse of. 156 sovereigns ,by his old constituents. The' Rev. J. M. Davidson, late pastor oi the Mataura Presbyterian charge, was last week presented by the parishioners -with a purse of sovereign? as a mark of the esteem in which he is held by his old congregation. ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry, who are leaving 'JBalclutha :, to , take up their ' residence in . "Auckland, were last week presented with a ;t parse of sovereigns and a lady's companion respectively, as a token of the esteem in I which they are held. ■ ' Miss Connie McLoskey, who. is at present in Dunedin, obtained the 'New Zealand -' Boyal Academy gold medal for 1901 _ or ' . singing and instrumental music. She sings , '■ ,in Christchurch at Easter, and leaves for *' England at the end of the'year. I Mr. A. E. White, of Ballarat, who was. j appointed , ) secretary - of the Wellington Young Men's Christian.Association, is to take up his new duties with the beginning of next month. He is expected to arrive by the Sydney steamer on the 28th inst. Mr. R. Whittingham, brewer, of Gore, Otago, has left for a trip to the Old Country, for the purpose of exploiting a patent airship of his own invention, on which he ■has been_engaged for several years. Prior to leaving he was entertained and presented with a, purse of sovereigns by the , business men of Gore. The vestry of St. Peter's Church, Hamil- ',;"' ton, have requested Archdeacon Calder to leave the Rev. D. C. Bates in charge of the parish until a permanent appointment ■'■ is '-made. This action is due to a very iv < numerously-signed testimonial presented to : the rev. gentleman when he was expected to give up charge., - The secretary of the Thames School of 4 Mines received a telegram from the Hon. J. ' 4 McGowan yesterday, announcing that J. . H. Adams, a student of the school, and son ■of Mr. James Adams, headmaster of the f0 :: Thames High School, had been successful in passing the examination fox the university scholarship. ;, The scholarship entitles , the holder to free tuition at the Otago Uni- <- ' i versity and £50 per annum for three years.