PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The resignation of Dr Neligan, Bishop of Auckland, takes effect as from Saturday next. The Bishop will leave Auckland on Friday, by the Tonganro, for London, via Wellington. The Rev. J. Olphert announced last evening at the anniversary service ill the Primitive Methodist Church tfiat he would be leaving, the circuit at the end of March next, and that in all probability the Rev. J. Feat-herston, now at Waikouait, would take his place. Mr Olphert has been stationed ill Timaru for about four years. Mr F. W. Marchant, of Timaru, left by the second north express yesterday on his way to Waipara, where he has business in connection with a proposal to build a new bridge there. Ho will afterwards go on to Wellington and New Plvmoutli.

J)r \Y. A. Chappie, M.P., who formerly represented Tuapelca in the New Zealand House of Representatives and who nmr represents Stirlingshire in the House of Commons, was in Christchureli on Monday, and left in the evening to return to AVellinsrton. Ho has returned to New Zealand to arrange some business affairs, and will leave again at the end of this mouth in order to attend the coming session of the Imperial Parliament.

Mr T. Colo, Mayor of Dunedin, was in confidential vein at a convivial gathering of the delegates to the lialfyearly meeting of the Manchester I'nity (says the Otago Daily Times") He told of Iris rise from the bottom of the ladder to the top. He told •how ho came to Dunedin in 1873, so nearly penniless that he was obliged to do pick and shovei work. That was nothing to be ashamed of. Then before the last election he looked back 011 his 27 years' experience as a councillor and Mayor and asked himself: "Are you fit- for this job?" And he said: "Yes, you are; so go ahead." So lie went- ahead, and "Here," sn/'d Mr Cole, "here I am at the top!" The applauuse from the admiring Oddfellows was almost deafening.