Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 19, 10 May 1906, Page 5

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) mmMmm Vat,^ 1 en , JO > r f, ble SOCIaI w « s tendered to Bro. J G fixated UlTnHl SUppmtcd the P^ioua speata?," seen a the chair «" " v <n ° r Clght P residen ts he had seen ia the chair, Bio. Yenning was one of the best Bro. Yenning suifa-Ll/ replied. A choice programme was 5?.«p f' M n , SiSting ° f pianoforte Wt iy the Misses t. 'MoGuimiess and E. Dennehv i by Miss McGuinness and Mr. Jordan, and recitaSs tors rZu * m X: hy and , Moriar^- All of the contr bu tors received the compliment ol a recall. Miss Dennehv al*> contributed a jiuioforte selection, and Miss lvicuuinness accompanied the singers. At the Grosvenor Hotel on Saturday afternoon a large number o f friends of Messrs. John Fitzgerald and W. Cronin met to wish them lon voyage on their departure for the Old Land. Mr. j. Mundell occupied the chair and said that during the forty years Mr. Fitzgerald had spent in South Canterbury he had made hosts, of friends by, his fair deaWng and genial manner -and now on his departure for a well earned holiday he had not a singje enemy. He asked JVTr. Fitzgerald to accept a gold watch, chain, and seal, as a memento, of their good wishes. Mr. Fraser (chairman of the Harbor Board), Mr. J. O. Newman (manager of the Canterbury Farmers r 00-op.i, and Messrs. I). AneJLand X G. Turner, S. O. Raymond, D. Mahoney, and others also spoke of Mr. Fitzgerald's good qualities Mr. Fitzgerald made a most hapny reply, and gave a short resume of his connection with the district since '■(>2. Mr. J Hole then presented Mr. W. Cronin (a nephew of Mr. Fitzgerald) with a sovereign case and a pair of field glasses. Mr Fitzgerald also accepted on behalf of his daughter, Miss Annie Fitzgerald, who is accompanying her father on his journey Home a gold bracelet.