PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■■■Mr. Course Schmidt, assistant chief .clerk to the .Public 1 . A\ orks Department, has been appointed secretary "to the hew Public 'lenders Hoard. l : Mr J. A. X. Kicdle is retiring from the management of the Dresden I'iuno Cqmpariy, a position lie has held for tlie past 26 years, vln -Dunodiii on ; Tuesday 'night he was tendered a farewell dinner by the staffs or the Dresden Company throughout ■: New , Zealand, Avhen' he was .the subject of . some very flattering rem arks, ami was presente<| with an artistically illuniinatcd address for • hiinseif, and a diamond brooch for Mrs Riedle..

Tho date of Lord Kitchener's arrival ia;Ne,w Zealand after, his visit to Australia .about 1 the end of this year; has been postponed. A telegram received ■ from the Governor-General; of Australia- by Lord i'limketj' states that owing -to v the difficulty of .making "' promi>o connection by steamer between Java and Australia, the. Admiralty-being unable to prOvitle a. cruiser, tiie .proposed itinerary will have to bo delayed. Lord Kitchener .undertakes to telegraph lurtlier information from Japan. Mrs J. : F. Waimatc, was presented' by the ivi»o.» Church' Sewing Guild, with'a ~ silver trinket box in recognition of her'sereices whilst a member. Mrs Morrison, made: tbe presentation and conveyed the best wishes of the members for the happiness of Mrs Douglass and herfamily in.-.'their new home,--,Dunedin. The recipient thanked the members tor 'the present and for their good, wishes, . The local honorary secretary of tho .-6t. John Ambulance Association rhas just' received word from Napier - that' Mrs M. S; Bbys sat and was successful, "in- passing with much credit, the home nursing ' : examination recently held there. This is a veTy creditable performance, inasmuch as Mre Boys, owing to ill-health, had to leave Timaru when / about halfway -through ber course, hut evidently .by contiiiurd studies whilo travelling, for the benefit of her health, and attending one or two lectures' in Napier, she has been successful in passing with, a very high percentage of marks. Mrs Boys is first officer arid inspector of stores to the. Timaru nursing division of the tst. John Ambulance Brigade and Dr \j. Ernest Thomas was her instructor ..while in Timaru. . ;