SOCIAL AND GENERAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5943, 25 February 1881, Page 2

SOCIAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL ;-'

«, £ EL t£ nll£ DeVere Hastings-Alexander, o; the Public Works Department, New Zealand Mr Norman Selfe/sf Sydney; and Mr David .Lees consulting engineer to the Otago-Harbour Boatd,1 have just beM elected m"? l? ers of the Instituted Civil v^m^.E ■ *^», ALL.C., and Mr .&'* E.--Sbrimslq r ~MTHrß: > rhave--b-em" !rapp(3nteat' members of the Waitaki > High Schoof jßoard. The Hon. R. Oliver, M.H.B, ,and the Hon. W. tt, ; -Reynolds, M.L.G.,-have been appointed membere^fithe OtagoHigh Schools' Board.*' The Hontßobert Campbellhas resigned his • seat^s .representative of, tliey.Ohau Riding in *°c Waitaki County Council. Li This step(says the North Otago Times) pis consequent 'on hisintention to visit the' Old Country shortly. • - rf The,Qamaru Mail states that Mr W J Steward^ will be a .candidate aitUhe, general election for the representation of Waimate iTiie™iollowing:::resignations-of'riyolnnteei;; officers have been accepted :—Canterbury Yeo-" manry-Gavalry, Sub-lieutenant-John-Stanley-Bruce; Manchester. Rifle, Volunteers, Lieu-■*S?-?»*_J*af k Yates Lethbridge; Captain Hugh .Joseph Finn as officer in command of N0."3 Battery, No. 3 RegfmentArtillery; i'"The following gentlemen comprise the'Har' bour Board/as newly-elected .-—Messrs 'Keith*' Ramsay,: John -"Mill,- W; Bridsman; W.;'J.-M.' Larnach, ,H. S. :Fish," Al H^Ross, ■ Henry; Gntfarie, Alex. Bart,'R.Paterabn,"and Captain; Logan, Mr .Ramsay, has, been? elected chair-, for the;enßuing year.- ;■/ _ The 1 gentlemen selected r to report on the" O!;ago Central, Railway are as follows:—For Vincent County; Mr'Dotaald Reid1; Maniototo County, Jlr, John. Bathgate j -Taieri .County, Mr ; Henry Clark; .the united.'counties, Mr H<ire,ce. Bastings;" ,Th;e . r Commis3i6nera willleave, about the ,ehd. of the'm6nth'"to' make their _tonr of inspection/ arid will be" acbo'm-5 pamed by a shorthand reporter. .:u_::_: Tbe.rlegal profession, fco the of aboutr.4o v assembled on the 16th.Februaiy 1v^ ln'B f Hotel t O . bid Mr Justice Williams farewell • prior to - his departure' tor Europe. An excellent dinner was dene ample justice-to, and after; tha'usualS-lormal toasts, Mr B. O. Haggitt, who acted as'chair1, man, proposed theitoast of the evening '^The bpaltih.of the guest.?',, ; l n doing so he drey/ attention to the polished courtesy that had at all. times marked the. demeanour .of his Honor in* tbe. discharge of his official duties, and stated %at iebad^been^ -specially^- requested^to recog-' n'se the kindly treatment junior "members of the Bar had invariablyreceiyed,from bis Honor. On-his-own-hehalf, and on behalf of every member of the profession, he wished Judge Williams, a pleasant holiday and a speedy "return. The toast was drunk -with enthnßiaam, and his Honor responded with much feeling, commenting on the cordial, relations that had at all times-existed between the Bar and-himself. Otner toasts followed, "The Hon. H'-S S^?m^' B" The Resident' 'Magistrates," .The Officers of the Supreme Court," and, at the instance of Mr Stout, "Clients, and our .unfortunate Clients," without which the cast and mechanism of the Supreme "Court, and _the whole legal profepsion as a body, from thfl Judge down to the Usher, would have no end or aim of .existence.; ; It was^proposed by a prominent member of the Bar that the toast Bh-mld:be drunk in. solemn silence, or to slow music,.but the feelings of the guests got the fettter-orthem^and the toast was drunk with mnaical-honours.- --Th&:-Dert'h^of-th"e^nair- aman. proposed; by Mr,-. Justice Williams, and happily reeponded to by Mr"'B. C. Haggitt teminated an exceedingly, pleaaarit evening t^iA^eetiiig of the1 employes of Merars'-A; J. Gibbs and Co. was^held recently at Carroll's European Hotel, Mr T. G. Wells in the chair '■ -when a presentation of an address and a purse .: of sovereigns wa3"made to.Mr William Walter '■ as a mßTk,of their.eßteem and regard prior, to i Kfs departure for Melbourne,'he having been in ' •*te-employof the firm for many years: 'His! health was drank in a bumper, and, a -very I fplsajantievening^was Bpenfc^^^ I __In,qon»iderati9n of.the Mrvices rendered R to] ■-■ :- - -.:''': r T.'<U.= IB.V,1 i'O'i ■-.■3.-r? ;hU ■.'J'»:;j»ial ,".'.■;'. i

them by Mr Stephen Gordon, the members of the Seamen's Union at Port Chalmers decided to make him a presentation, and on the 17th, at the Port Chalmers. Hotel, Mr Gordon was handed a very elegant solid-silver tea and coffee service, made by Mr G. Young, of Princes street, Dnnedin, for presentation to Mrs Gordon. It bore the following inscription :^-" Presented to Mrs Gordon by the Seamen's Union, Port Chalmers, as a mark of esteem, and for services rendered by her husband, Stephen Gordon (president), during February, 1881."

Mark-Master Masons will' be gratified to learn the M.W.G.M. the Right Honourable the Earl of Lathom, has bean pleased to appoint Broi Thomas Sherlock Graham as Provincial Grand Matter of New Zealand South. The patent of appointment together, with the charter 'for: the establishment of the; Hiram Mark Lodge at Dunedin, reached Bro' T." S.Graham on Tuesday, and steps will be taken at an early date to instal him in his exbalted office. - . ... : Mr Butchart, who has for a long time past held the position of stationmaater at Dunedin, ahd who has at his own request been transferred to Tapanui, was last night presented with a handsome clock by the employes of the traffic department.