PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13903, 14 May 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A West Coast message states that Lhe Hon. James Holmes and the Hon. James Marshall have been reappointed members of the Legislative Council. MrA. Wagstaff, of Tiraaru, will be a passenger for Loudon by the Krmutaka, which leaves Wellington on June 3rd. Mr Wagstaff intends to make a holiday visit extending • over several months to England and Scotland. _ London cable messages to hand last night state that the Royal Scottish Geographical Society has awarded Lieutenant Shackleton of the rwmrod Antarctic expedition the Livingstone gold medal; and that the llev. Mr Woolcombe. who is to tour Australasia and organise the Church ot Lngland Men's Society, has saded in the s.s. Ormuz. , - Mr J. Mating, who recently resigned the mayoralty of Gcraldine owing to his change" of residence to Timaru, was entertained at a smoke concert at l*eraldine on Tuesday evening, and presented with a gold hunting lever watch on behalf of the residents of Geraldine borough and district. -There was a large and representative gathering or town and country people m spite ot the inclement weather, and the clian was occupied by Mr F. It. J lutnmu, the newly elected Mayor. Mr Douglas McLean "as (say s . Napier message) yesterday presented by the Scotsmen of Hawkes Bay utli. a portrait in oils of himself painted b> W. A. Doring. Kcferenco was made to Mr McLean's high qualities as a public man and private- citizen and his sympathetic and practical interest m the welfare of Napier and In responding Mr McLean, who is chieftain of the Hawkc's Bay Highland Society, referred to the advantages of such societies in maintaining tlie memories of one's native land and loyalty to the' Mother Country.