PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14386, 2 December 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The'Noi'WQtago .To»lrev Club on Monday evening presented a. .handsome gold watch tcyMr Con. Christie, who, after acting as timekeeper to the club for several years, is leaving for Auckland. Mr W; D. Campbell, who contested the Timani ecat_' against Mr Graigio at the .general election, will be enlertained by his supporters' to-morrow evening. Ho will kftvo of a holiday yieit_ to Australia in a few days. Mr Thomas P. Dunh.il!, the Associated Board's examiner of music, commenced tlio Dunedin examinations on Monday last. Mr Dunhill's address 'is the 'Pcmhill Club. The Native Land Court at Kaiapoi was adjourned at niidday. on Monday in oonsequenca of the death of the wife of Mr Kanapu Etarerchuku, assessor. The doceased lady had accompanied her husband from Auckland to Kaikoura, whore she was taken ill, She died at Hundalcc, between Kaikouraoand Culv'erdcn, on Saturday. Th© body was to.be brought.down by train to Lyttelton, tlio intention being to take it on to Auckland. The. Gore Standard reports the death of a very old identity in the district, Mr Thomas M'Kenzic, aged 83 years. ' Deceased, was a shepherd on Otama and Gillanders's runs'jn the early days, and was well known, throughout the district, Mr J. A. Haggitt, wjho has for tlio past nine years occupied the'position of accountant "and managing. clerk to Messrs BathBate, and Woodhoiisc,- solicitors, Dunedin, has sovored his connection with that firm to take over the business of Messrs Sicvwrjght Bros; arid Co. X A privato messago on Saturday from London' brought jword \ thai; the degree of P.R.C.S.,' London, had been gained by Dr W. E. Cirswejl,, of Dunedin. Dr Oarswell, who is a'eon' , of,Mi\S.'.K. Oarswell, of this city, took his initial diploma at the Otago University only some .two years ago, and that been ahlc to 1 attain a fellowship 1 thus early reflects, credit on the training gained 'by Otago. students. ■ . '.. . . At a general meeting of tho Dunedin Operatic Society held on Friday Miss May Black w»6 made the,.recipient of a purse of sovereigns,'from.■■thfeicdmnHttee and members of tire society. Mr S. Solomon, K.C. (yice-presideht), in making tho presentation, said it gave him the greatest pleasure and honour to' convey to Miss Black! some tangible token from the members as a slight mark of the high esteem in which she was held by all of them, and for tho oapablo and-, masterful manner in which she praotically stage managed and coaohed the whole of the recent production of "ThV Mikado.". Several other members testified to Mi«s'Black's'popularity and to her wortff as a qualified directness of the operatio stage,- and confessed that without her the opera might have been a fiasco, everything on the stage practically being dependent on her organisation.' Miss Black responded in her usual. : characteristic, and humorous style. : ,