PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 126, 28 May 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

it xraai- decided..at;,a..meeting: of Wellington, citing .test . Sir j.- Gt Ward a. public 'reception on his retura;from;the Old/Country,'.""' .

Mr. ti; J. A. Griffin, MJk..,"B.Sc., has "rftingned from the-teaching staff of the Auckland Grammar- School, in orderito proceed. to'_ London-to undergo a course of -Tnedical "study.

'Miss Marie Quinn left by the Alio■wera yesterday for Sydney, to.-join her sister • Florence, who is on totir witb Mi. 0. -J- Williamson's pantomime company.

A Press .Association message states that Mr. W. Rbbson, of the Bank of-New Zealand's head office, has been appointed to the management of the Gore branch, in the place of Mr. C. Smith, who has been' transferred to Palmerston North.

■Jack Clarke, the Maori boy who endeavoured to save a schoolmate from drowning in the Ohinfemuri River, some thne ago,. has been presented by the Paeroa . people with a-silver wath and chain as a of his bravery.

Vice-Admiral Sir. W. Fawkes and Lauy Fawkes will be present at. the, meeting of the. French.Club this evening. Several officers and midshipmen will also be present at the entertainment, which, will comprise a French play, as well as a concert.

Mr. Colin Gilray, -of Dunedin, the Rhodes' scholar for .1907, intends leaving for England in August. The college chosen by Mr. Gilray at which to prosecute his studies is Baliol, of which Pro« fessor Edward Caird," the well-known philosophical scholar, is the master.

JDr IL Douglas, of Hamilton, is leav» ing .for. the. Souta by the. Walkare this afternoon,-, with? Mrs Douglas and their two. children;. Dr iDouglas.js en route for a:nifi.e.anßhths\tiip to tha. Old Country, and is proceeding Home by. tho Ruapehu, on which vessel he will act in the capacity of /surgeon for the. voyage.. They ; leave the colony from iyttelton on Junei6.

At the examination held under the Paeroa -branch' of • the St. John Ambulance Association, the following candidates were-successful: Mesdames PenneU and Brunskill, and Misses McCallum, McGeehah,' and Smith passed in the nursing class, and' : Mesdames Craig, Hanna, and McAndrew, and Misses Binnsldll, Campbellj Forrest, Kenny, .MeAndrew;. ana Shaw passed in, the nursing course in the first class.