PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13020, 8 February 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)

PERSONAL.

Miss Kompthorno, daughter of the Rev. J. P. Kompthorne, who is at present in London studying at the Royal Academy of Music, has been admitted as a licentiate of the R.A.M.

At tho Boathouse last evening tho members of the Rowing Club assembled to bid farewell and make a small presentation to Mr K. Smythe, who has been transferred to the Customs Department in Wellington. The presentation was made by Mr F. McCabe, captain of tlu« club, who expressed the sincere regret the members felt at losing such a keen and enthusiastic fellow-member, who was one of the truest sports. Ha assured Mr Smythe that lie carried with him the best wishes of tho members of tho club for his future success, and asked him to accept a small token of the high estocjii in which he was held by them. Mr V. Buthwaite, vice captain, in endorsing Mr McCabe's remarks, spoke ot Mr Siinythe's sterling qualities and the excellent example he sat the younger members. In responding Mr Smythe thanked the members for their presmit and their kind remarks and good wishes. His association with the Nelson Rowing Club he would never forget, and their kind present would always remind him of Nelson and tho good time he had there. The. presentation took the form of a sovereign case suitably inscribed

In a letter to a friend in Nelson, the Rev. W. S. Lucas, who recently went Home to undergo a serious operation, writes under date, London, December 25th:—"I am thankful to say that 1 have made an excellent recovery. The surgeon told me last Tuesday that he could certify that I was a thoroughly sound man. I had a great deal of pain at the beginning of the voyage, but after we had been out about a month something seemed to give way internally, which relieved me "a great deal. I arrived at Plymouth oa Tuesday-, December 13th, went to St. Thomas' Nursing Home on tho Friday afternoon, and on Saturday was 90 minutes under ether. The result is thoroughly satisfactory, We have booked our passages by the Orient s.s. Otranto, leaving London on January 20th. We hope to be in Nelson about March 10th, and I shall bo very thankful to be at liomc and at work again."