PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13635, 19 February 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

7 ' , „t Thot Tho Premier will k be entertained by the. Hotorua Chamber of ConuHier,oe toWght. Wellington telegram states: The Governor's engagements in Wellington xnciude attending a meeting of trustees of tho Rhodes Scholarships on Friday ufternoon, when the Dominion Rhodes »bolar for the year will be^ chosen. On Friday nighty hijs Excellency leaves for 'Jhristchurch, where he is to lay the foundation stone of the new wing 1 at Christ College. The Governor's party, consisting of Lady Pluriket,. Mr and IVfjjs , Arthur * Rhodes, Miss Oesswell, ana the Governpr's staff will leave Jjyttelton on Saturday, 29th inst., in the Tutatekai for Akaroa. A visit will then be paid to Stewart Island,, and the 1 West Coast Sounds. At Rotorua lasts' eight Cardinal Mor-an-received a great receptfoh. The 'town Ksind played on the approach' of the, train. Dean LightheaH #elcohied tno Cardinal, and a Maori chief, Meta Itaupopoki, welcomed' him on behaH df I*e Maoris. A public address will be presented to the Cardinal to-day. „ At ». meeting of the New Plymouth Fire Brigade last evening Fireman F. J^overley was presented with a silver bar for an additional two years' service, he. .having now completed seven years' service, with the brigade. . The Fire Brigade held a . wei practice at the Recreation Sports, Ground last night. The terraces , received a, good soaking which should be the the mean^ of freshening up the grass f^r next week's festivities. The Marsland Hill Memorial commitr w* is to 4 itfeet'at Mr, v J. C. Davies' * "<JfficeH;o-night' to decide the important icpiestion of the design for the memorial monument. • \Mr. McLean yesterday tendered his resignation as a member of the New Hymofctth Harbdur Board. Tbe staff of the local branch of Mesart. J. B. MacEwau and Co. met yesterday afternoon' and presented Mr. As C. MacEntan with a silver-mounted liquor stand in' honour of his 1 approaching, marriage. .Miv. R. .W. D. Robert■on. made the presentation, which was suitably acknowledged by Mr. MacBwan, In the evening the statff and if few friends, tendered a social , evening, to Mr. MacEwan at the Kia Ora' 'tef reshment rooms. . -, ■ . ,\ Afr. R. C. Hamerton. of Wellington, wh>> has been in New Plymouth f r .several days, was a passenger f«"»r south "Jf the. jnail train this morning. * £" A ' Hadley arrived from Auckland 'by the Rarawa this niorning. To-day 1 he vjsited the petroleum boret Ut Carririgtbn Road.