PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12716, 30 January 1906, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Wm. Fry j who has a station near Feilding, leaves the colony at the end of next month on a,two years' tour. He goes Home via Australia, China and Japan. . The Rev. James McWilliam, who has filled the position of native missionary at Otaki for the past 37 years or so, will retire from that position about the end of the present month, and will leave Otaki. •

Mr. F. Dyer has received the official documents in connection with his appointment as Vice-Consul for Gi'eece in Wellington. Amongst the candidates who were awarded senior free places in secondary schools is H. G. Brodie, of.the Wanganui Collegiate school.

Sir Robert Pullar, of Perth (Scotland), senior pai*tner in the firm of . Pullar's dye works, is visiting the colony, and it at present in the North Island.. He is also one of the trustees selected to administer Mr. Andrew Carnegie^s bequest of £2,000,000 for poor Scottish students. He has just returned from the Milford Sounds trip, and from New Zealand goes to Japan, China and Canada in : continuation -of- his round-the-world excursion.

Miss F. M. Hodgkins, the talented Wellington artist, who has been associated in Wellington with Miss Richmond, left for London last week, ■ en route for Spain.

A London cable announces that the Rev. Haskett Smith, who some years ago toured Australasia lecturing on Palestine, is dead.

The Premier denies that Mr. Macintosh, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is leaving the institution owing to a difference of opirr'on concerning the Government's banking account.

Mr. P. W. Robertson, of Wellington, the Rhodes scholar for New Zealand, who went to Oxford last October, has won an open science scholarship at Trinity College of the value of £80. The winning of the scholarship is considered at Oxford to be a greate.!scholastic feat than winning a Rhodes scholarship. Mr. C. Dymock, manager of the Taihape branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has received notice to proceed to Raetihi to take charge of the bank's branch there. Mr. F. M. Dawson, of Danevirke, will assume control of the Taihapa branch.