PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4330, 13 April 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Minister of Education is expected to return from Christchurch, on Sunday.

His Excellency the Governor will leave to-day on a visit to Christchurch and Dunedin.

Mr George Fordham, of the Wellington Telegraph Department, ■ has been transferred to the Invercargill office. Tho Rev Father Herbert, of St.. Patrick’s College, has been appointed! '.ordinary Master of Ceremonies for the archdtiocese.*' ;

Mr Alexander McDongall, of the Greymouth-Poirit Elizabeth Coal Mine, is returning to New Zealand by the s.s. Gothic, which .sails from London to-day. Me McDongall has successfully completed, the company flotation business Which took him to England. Mr David Sutherland, of Pahao, Martinhorough, will leave to-day in the steamer Tarawera for Sydney, where be will join the Orient liner Ortona. for Loudon. He will be accompanied by his second daughter. Mr Sutherland, who is a native of Wellington, having been born near Lyell’s Bay. is about to make his first visit to the Old Country. Ho intends to spend some time in the north of Scotland before returning to New Zealand about eight, months hence. The Prioress of the Dominican Convent at Dunedin has received intimation from the secretary of Trinity College, London, that one of the three exhibitions of £9 9s each, open to colonial students, has been awarded to Miss Eileen Ward, who gained ninety-four marks in the senior pianoforte section last year and junior honours in musical knowledge in 1898. Miss Ward, who is but fourteen years of age, is a daughter of the Hon. J- G. Ward. She was a performer at the concert held in the Skating Rink on Easter Monday, when her pianoforte playing was highly praised. Mr James Gardiner, of Gore, who has just won the New Zealand Drniahts Association championship at Palmerston North, is as yet scarcely out of his teens. His was a- highly creditable performance, having defeated Mr D. A. Brodie (champion) and Mr J. A. Boreham, who had held the honour for several years. Mr Gardiner began to play the game when he was about fifteen years of age, and two years ago he was second to Mr Brodie in the championship played at Dunedin. Twelve months ago Mr Gardiner tied with Mr Brodie for the championship, which was played at Invercargill, so that Mr Gardiner's career as a draught player is exceptionally brilliant. When Mr Jordan, the champion of the world, visited New Zealand about two years ago, Gore’s youthful player was able to secure six draws out of seven games played, the world’s champion winning one. As a draught player, it may safely be predicted that Mr Gardiner has a groat future.