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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1648, 30 September 1903, Page 18

The Rev. J. C. Mart in has resigned the pastorship of the Napier Baptist Church, consequent upon his acceptance of an - appointment to the church at Spreydon, Canterbury. Mr Martin hau been at Napier for three years. Sergeant-Major Finn, who. has been retired on a pension from the position of .drill instructor to the East Coast battalion, has been presented with a purse of sovereigns by Captain Reeve, of the Pahiatua Rifles, on behalf of the Woodville, Pahiatua and Union Rifles. When. Sir Joseph Ward, in his capacity as Postmaster-General, opened the new post office at the Spit—the port of Napier—last June, he said it had been suggested that the name of the office should be changed to the one it originally bore “Port Ahuriri.” Sir Joseph promised that the matter should receive attention. It is now officially announced that after October Ist the name is to be changed from “Spit -5 to “Port. Ahuriri.” k The surveys of the Highfield tstate acquired by the Government from Messrs Wharton and Co. for land settlement- purposes, are now completed, and the estate, under the name of t-h© An non Settlement, is to be opened for . selection on November 13th. Annan Settlement adjoins the' Waiau township, in North Canterbury. A contractor whose account had been in the hands of the Education Board for a month only wrote on Thursday demanding that interest should be paid him on the money owing!. The harassed Board received the letter without protest; it is gradually getting into the position of the needy householder who calls the milkman “Sir” and pretends not to hear the nasty remarks of the landlord on rent day. Private advice has been received of the death in Gisborne on Thursday morn- - ing of Mrs Be Costa, relict of the late Mr Ralph Be Costa, an old resident of Poverty Bay. Mrs Be Costa, who was about sixty years of age, leaves a family of one daughter and seven sons, of whom Mi- A. Be Costa, of Wellington, is one. Mrs Be Costa had been in illhealth for the past three months. Mis Peck (who has returned from Niagara)—“l stood speeches—— M£ p,eck “Wonderful i Wonderful. (To - himself) “I vender how Niagara did it?*