PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 11997, 4 September 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs R. J. Wright is on a Holiday visit t« Christchurcli. Mr Jacob Lcvien, w J ho was for many years in the aerated water business in" Timaru, has just become of the Heathcoto Hotel. -, ' - ( Mr Virtue, the Town Clerk, 'lias received news that Miss Annje J!'. Miller, formerly of Totara Valley, but now of Dunedin, has passed her speed examination of 80 words a minute in Pitman's shorthand. Mi&s Miller was a- pupil of Mr A'. Gruhn, of Timaru. 'The death occurred yesterday of the Rev, C. S. IJowden, vicar of Riccarton, aged 48, after a short illness. > Mr IJowden coud noted service at 8 o'clock last Sunday morning. Ue was curate at ist. Michael's, where lie was ordained, ' from 1889 to 1894; from 1894 t<» 19U6 vicar of St. Mary's, Mornington, and in 1906 was appointed; to Riccarton. * v Mr' E. S. Miles, for the last three and a-half years head' miller for the Timaru Milling Company, has resigned his jHisition for the purpose of taking a trip t<i England/ It is; Mr" Mile*' intention to also' Visit the iUnit«l States and thoroughly investigate the methods of the milling industry there, after winch, he will probably settle in South America, where he was * first; engaged after leaving England. '