PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13959, 19 July 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Advice has just been reoeived that Dr Ivan Stuart Wilson has secured the degree ol M.K.C.S.

| A. Sydney cablegram states that Mr Gilruth, the New Zealand Government .-veterinarian was a passenger by the Mokoia, which sailed for Auckland on Wednesday. From an Association wire wo learn that the Bishop of Waiapu has appointed the' tiev. Herbert Williams to be Archdeacon ol Waiapu, and the Rev. David Ruddock to be Archdeacon of liawke's Bay. Mr S. C. Napier-Bell, a . well-known graduate of the Otago School o! Mines, who ' for the past three years has been manager ot the Brothers' Homo No. 1 Tin Mining Company, 011 the east coast of Tasmania, was entertained by his friends at a banquet prior to leaving for Queensland, whero he has received the appointment of metallurgist to tho Peak Down Copper Mining Company. / We gather from the report of the gathering in a late Tasmanian exchange that many eulogistic references were made to the ability with which Mr Bell had iperformed his mining, magisterial, and social duties. At the weekly practice of the Duncdin Navals' Band Mr 1). Cooke was presented with a pair of greenstone and gold sleevelinks. Mr T. P. Williamson, in making -the presentation, expressed tho bandsmen's appreciation of Mr Cooke's services, 'and added that, besides coaohing mid conducting the band at the Exhibition contest, the recipient had assisted financially.