PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12494, 22 March 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Rev. Father Smith, who was connected with St. Mary's parish before his transfer to Timaru, has been the recipient of a purse of £25 ' from the congregation of St. Mary's Church at Nelson.

Mr Thomas Gilmour, supervising mine- manager for the Waihi Gold Mining Co., has been appointed.by the Government a member of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act.

The late Mr Macdonald, Crown Pro-secutor-at Invercargill, was the son of Dr. Alexander Macdonald. who gave up the practice of his ' profession in Scotland to become a missionary (says the "Southland Times").. His field of work was Samoa, where Thomas Morell Macdonald was born. Dr. Macdonald returned to London when his son was between five and six years of age. There the deceased was educated, and after_s6irie years spent . in Kent the family came out to New Zealand and settled in Auckland. Dr. Mapdonald became minister of a Congregational Church, and T. M. Macdonald^ entered the office of Sir Frederick Whitaker.

The Baroness von Pilsach, an Austrian lady who has completed a tour of America and Asia, will visit New Zealand.

A Sydney cable message records the death of Mrs Marter, wife of the subeditor of, the "Daily. Telegraph." .