PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10344, 28 December 1911, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph "Ward arrived from Wellington this morning. Messrs J. A. ileupath, T. Brown, J. P. Lynch, T. AV. Reese, H. Af. Turnbull and I''. 13. Logan arrived from "Wellington tbis morning.

Tho Duneciin "Star '' states tluit Mr Hannay, station master at Lyttclton, is rotiring, and tli.it .Mr I?;. Dnbbio, of Invercargil!, will lie promoted to the vacancy, whih< \!r ('.can, chief clerk at Lyttclton, will Lake charge at .1 nvcreargill. Mr D. Ross, lately licensee of the Empire Hotel, was last evening presented bv a number of his Christchurch friends with a gold, pendant, .suitably inscribed. Tho presentation was made by Mr I'. Hcalev. Mr'T. M. Wilford. M.P., Mayor of Wellington, whoso health has been unsatisfactory for some time past, will leave for "England by tho Corinthie. Ho will be accompanied by Mrs Wilford and Miss Isabel Wilford. He intends to conMilt a specialist in Loudon and to return to New Zealand as soon as possible. ' At the East Oxford School on Friday afternoon, Miss E. A. Parr, who has completed her pupil toachership and who is leaving to enter the Normal College for training, was presented by the Hills' Hockey Club with a silver-mount-ed scent sprayer. The presentation was ill ado by the. headmaster. On Thursday, after the presentation of prizes to the children attending the East Cbrir-tcliurch Infants' School, Mr Drayton, chairman of the School Committee, presented on. behalf of the teachers a handsome handbag to Miss Melvina Miles, who lias left the school to take up her work iu the Training College. The Very .Rev Dean O'Donnell, of Ashburton, who has spent a few weeks at Harimcr on account of his health, returned to Ashburton last week, and on Sunday morning after mass was presented by tho parishioners with an address, in which his good work, extending over the last twenty years, was acknowledged, and good wishes for his health were expressed. The address was accompanied with a well-rilled purse of sovereigns. The presentation was niado bv Mr M. J. Burg-eta».