PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15098, 22 March 1911, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr Charles J. Royio (Consul-general for Paraguay for Australia) and Mie Roylo aro on a trip through tho Dominion, ami

•o at ■p/ese.nt. staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr 11. B. Courtis announces his intention of becoming a candidate lor a scat in tho City Council as a representative of Lcith Ward. Mr 11. G. Cornwall, British Agent at Niuo (Savage Islands), arrived in Duncdin. by tho first express from the north yesterday, and will bo staying with friends in tho city for a week or 10 dans. Mr T. S. Gulling and family havo booked passages by tho s.s. Kaikouia, sailing hom Auckland for London on or about April 21. We believe Mr Culling intends remaining in tho Old Country for at least 18 months or two years. Mr Edward Iveagh Lord, who was for 24 years town clerk of Grcymouth, died last evening at the age of 68 years. He was (saye our correspondent) om> of the . earliest pionoors of tho Wet Coast, nod was universally respected and esteemed. At a meeting of the Itavenabourno School Committee on Monday evening it was resolved to recommend to the Education Board for appointment Miss J. R. Thomson, of the Nasoby District High School, to tho position of mistress, and Mr A. Bringans for the position of first assistant. ■ In response to tho request cf the wbolo of the members of tho Maori HiU Baroujrh Council and a large number of ratepayers, Mr A. .T. ButterfieM, tho present Mayor of Maori Hill, has consented to acecpi nomination to that office for a further term.

At the Mornington Presbyterian Ohurch last evening the choir α-nd Sunday school teachers mot' to say gcod-byc to Mis Graham and to present her with a parting token, which toak the'form of a beautiful leather lady's dressing-case. Mr A. A. Brown, organist, matfc tho presentation, and spoke in high terms of Miss Graham's devotion as a ohoir member. Mr Caldow, superintendent, eulogised her work as a. teacher for many years. The. Rev. W. Scorgio congratulated! Jdiss Graham on her long service, good example, andi splendid work in school and choir.

Mr A. Gibbs, -who for a. number of years has occupied a position in the telegraphic engineer's office, ]>unedin, was (says the Mail) met at the Oamaru Railway Station on Saturday by tho local construction and maintenance linemen and presented with three'pieces of silver, to mark the staff's appreciation, of his promotion to a respon*eible position in Wellington, whither he was proobading. Mr Gibte will fill the position of acting chief electrician at Wellington, during Mr Buekiey"s absence. A pleasant ceremony took place on Wedl.esdny at Tarara School, wneri Mr G. A. Bkokwood, who has severed his connection with &o teaching profession to take up the position as traveller for Messrs SmeHio Br«u, Ocago Iron Rolling Milk, was entertained by the parents and scholars and presented with a 6uVer matchbox, suitably incoribed. Tho same evening, his hostess (Ml 3 White), Forndalo Park House, gave him a royal sendK>ff, which took the form of a. musical evening. The following evening some wellwishers met and presented him witii a gold sovereign case and a gold mounted greenstone pendant; and, later on in the evening, ho was met by the members of the Ratanui church ohorr' in the vestry and presented with a haudsome writing (teak, suitably inscribed, as a tangible appreciation of his services as organist and choirmaster to the 'church. Mr Crocket, tho pastor, in making the presentation, epoke in laudatory terms of Mr Blnckwocd's sterling worth, and voiced the feelings of t8» people when ho menfeorted the loss the district wonld sustain at his departure'.