PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12185, 7 March 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Dr. E. W. Naylo.s M.A.. of Cambridge, lias won the Ricordi prize of ,£SOO for the best English lyric opera. Dr. Naylor, who is Examiner for Degrees at the Cambridge, is a son of Dr. Naylor, of York Minster, and a nephew of Mr G. F. Naylor, of this city.

Passages to England have been booked by tl-e following residents of Nelson : — By the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaipara, leaving on Monday, Colonel and Mrs Wood and infant, and Miss Campbell ; by the same company's liner Ruapehu. leaving on March 12th, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Redgrave, Mrs and Miss Hingston, and Miss Earnett.

Mr Robert Brien has been appointed Secretary to the Otago Trades and Lhbor Council. Captain Webb, one of the directors o? the Huddarfc, Parker Co., is visiting New Zealand on a holiday. , Mr E. G. B; Moss, ex-M.P. for Ohine-i muri, was married at '.Feilding, lastMon-! day, to Miss Amy Hall, of Auckland. Mr H. J. Moors, a well known merchant and planter of Upoln, Savari. is at present on a visit to Auckland. At a meeting of the "Wanganui Harbor Board last night, Mr T. H. Haworth, of Wellington, was appointed resident engineer. .^ ; V ■ - • Private Henderson, of the Franklin Mounted Rifles; died suddenly at Cleveland, on Monday-last. He was accorded a military funeral. Tl e death occurred, at Waitotava, on Friday, of Wakarua Tamaiparoa, chief of the' Ngaraurn and Ngatiruaimi, at the age of 72 years; : '. ■• -Mr 15.. 3. King has definitely decided to contest the Stratford seat at the next general election as an Independent Liberal. \p "A private cable: announces the death in London, on March 4th. of Mr Gerritt Van Asch, aged 75. He was a director of the Sumner School for Doat Mutes from 1879 till his recent retirement. Mr Frank J. Donohne, for many years | one of the leader writing fctift" on the "Sydney. Morning Herald,'' died in Sydney last week. Mr Donohue was fifty years of age. Ho was" in New Zealand a few weeks before his death.