Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 21 April 1904, Page 5

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) April 18. A very pleasing function took place in the offices of the Canterbury Farmers' Cooperative Association on Tuesday evening last, the, occasion being the presentation of a handsome silver dinner service and set of carvers to Mr. Thomas Quinn on the eve of his marriage. Mr. A. Austin, the company's accountaint, in makiing the presentation, referred to the many good qualities of the recipient ; his genial and obliging manner, and the thoroughness and capability with which he performed his clerical duties. On behalf of the Association's employees he wished Mr. and Mrs. Quinn a long and happy life. Mr. Quinn heartily thanked them for theilr handsome gifts and the many kind words whioh aiccomipamed them. He could not accept all the gQoid things said of him, and rather thought that they ■wera painting an ideal for him to aspire to. The Children of Mary, hearing that Miss Annie Dillon was about to enter the bonds of Matrimony with Mr. T. Quinn, presented her with two well-mounted religious pictures as a mark of the esteem in which she was held during her lengthy term as a member of the society. Hearing that there was some likelihood of Mr. J. P. Fitzgerald being transferred temporarily to his company's Waimate branch, a number of his friends could not let such an event happen without Showing in some tangible way the esteem and respect in which he is held. This took the shape of a smoke concert, held in Mr. Tobin's Criterion Hotel on Saturday night, 9th inst., at which he was asked to accept a gold-mounted watch guard with shield engraved with Irish emblematical designs, as a small token of t?he regaqd in which he was held. Mr. Fitzgerald, in accepting this handsome; gift, thanked all for their present and good wishes and hoped that the bonds of friendship and comradeship would continue whilst life existed.