PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14484, 4 July 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, was in Timarti yesterday. Mr J. Gran le fl . Timaru by the second express yesterday to ioai the Bank of New Zealand in Ghrisfcchurch. Egcrtou P.eid is still making excellent progress towards recovery. He will probably be able to get about again in a fortnight's time. Mr F. It. Gillmghaiu, chairman of the South Canterbury Hospital Board, returned .from Wellington yesterday, ■where ho has been attending the Health Conference. Mr Donovan and Mr Redmond', two of the Irish envoys who spent Sunday in Timaru as the guests of Rev. Father Tubman, left bv the first express for • t'iie • stmt#U yesterday. A number of friends on the station gave them a cheer as the train moved otf.

A number of yusouul i'rionds of Mr J. Cran, of thv liank ol N<jw Zealand, who has - been traiisforxod to Clinavdiurch, at Vno ; tiposvenor Hotel an<erno£u V) bid him goodr-jbyo and to present kiix* with soma to&eiuj of thtiiX regard. Mr K. U. Turner occupied the diair, and after proposing t'iie health of the King, spoke oi the rugret all'present felt, at Mr Cran's leaving Timaru, if his good personal cbaract -r, iiiid of the abihty and courtesy he had always shown in his capacity as teller at the Bank He was however to know that* the move meant promotion, and be wished him every succe.-is in Ils new position. The chairman's remarks were endorsed by Messrs P. G. Allan, loeoh, Kerr, Hurdley and Edwards, and Mr and Mrs Gran's health" was again drunk with musical honours. The chairman then Mr Cran to accept, on bohalf of himself ond Mrs Cran, a very handsome sUvor entree .l.'tlj and a silver hot water kettlo and sprit lamp, V". , K ' >r *' «"iihes of their Timaru friends. Mr Cran foehnjjy .replied, and tv.nnked all present for their good irisfi.T, and hantlMme presents, and I>ro!io-ed _tho health of Jtis successor, -Air Pullcmo. vrho w.is bou-id to miuke rr.nnj- friends in Timaru. The Eov. C. E. Be«croft, of Fcildins. and foruiarly of Timaru, who is onjoyinp; a .we!l-oarned year's leave of absence granted by the Now Zealand ltethod:st Conference, of which he is an ex-president, arrived in London recently after a period of travel in "Palestine Egypt-, "Italy and Switzerland. He left Auckland" early in January by the P. and 0. Mantua, and, brealcing iiifi journey at Port Said, wandered a, while in' the Holy Land_, where lie spent a most interesting time amid t3ie scenes illustrative of Bible history s . . Thence he went to Egypt, visiting Cairo, I.nxor, Kmnak, ancient Thebes and Alexandria. and visited Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan and Lucerne ere coming on t-o London. Wlilst in Egypt air Beecroft learned (writes a London correspondent), to his great sorrow, of the sudden death of his brother, the late William Arthur Beecroft, who was for over forty vears an Ident'ty in Hastings, New Zealand, but had for some years prior to liis death hved at Wroxham. Norfolk Mr Beeo;oft is now staying at, his,' late brother s home for a short space. Later lie wilt visit a number of pro-' Tmcial centres where he has c-iurace-menta to preach, including placSs as tar apart as Morecambe, in Lanca- £ r'f.-" 1 Cornwall, Weslev'a In City road, London, and