NEW ZEALAND GENERAL :

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 31, 3 August 1905, Page 15

NEW ZEALAND GENERAL :

Again we have to remind correspondents that communications not bearing the signatures of the senders are consigned to the waste-paper basket. A social gathering (writes a correspondent) was held in the Tokarahi Hall on Friday, July 28, for the purpose of bi'didimg farewell to Mr. and Mrs. O'Donnell on their departure for the North Island. The unseasonable weather interfered somewhat with the attendance. Mr. L. Das/ler, wiho presided, said that Mrs. O'Donnell and her family had, by their sympathetic and kindly ways, endeared themsehes to all their neighbors, and Mr. O'Donnell was always the first to help a good cause, his purse bditng ever open at the call of ciharity, etc. Mrs. Dasler, on behalf of the ladies of the district* then presented Mrs. O'Donnell with a travelling trunk, etc., a presentation of a watch, chain, and sovereign case being made to Mr. O'Donnell. Speeches eulogistic of Mr. and Mrs. O'Donnell were delivered by several of those present, and vocal items were contributed by Misses Duncan, More, and Duffy. A plentiful supply of refreshments was provided by the ladies, and the gathering broke up after the sinking of ' Auld lang syne.'