TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14838, 2 December 1913, Page 6

TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.

SARIES

DECEMBER 2. Cortes, conqueror of Mexico, tiled ~ jm Napoleon I. and Joseph!-, crowned at Notr. Dime .. ~ .. jag. JVfcat of Russians ar.d Austrian- by Napoleon at Austorl-tr. .. .. jjqj; j - Mauritiuo capture, by British ," jgj* Disraeli rceiirned Pr*m_r_b.ip ... i_jj London gasworks strike .. .. «•_•_. Defeat of Afrr-hace by Lord Roberts at Poiwar Pa«e .. .. .; jj—. " Death of Jay Gould, millionaii- .' __j_

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.'

A mind that is conscious of itj:''!?> integrity scorns to say moro jS it means to perform. -;^S

—Burn-,

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Earl of Liverpool had a timo at Auckland yesterday. At a.m. ho opened tho Exhibition, and■'•s§§A--4 p.m. he laid the foundation stone of tho Now Grammar School building aiM Mount Eden. In the evening he afeiS;¥i tendod the civic banquet at .t_e--Tow_i£r_£' Hall tendered to official visitors Exhibition. .'.-; i-._'£sv

Dr. Stewart went North last evening. %Mii. Mr G. Witty, M.P., returned ";tof| Wellington by the Pateena last nighfci^g Chief Detective Mcllvoney was a-i-C passenger for Wellington by last _ugbtV3j"| ferry steamer. ' ■; '.-..- rtf*^ Mr A. A. McLean, telegraphist in thaler Timaru office, has boon promoted to tho 'Asi position of postmaster at Ohaupo, no_rsi*_ Auckland. A?Mi A wireless message has -been ro%0: eoived in Chriptchurch to tho effectiffi that on November 20th, during.the ace of tho Tahiti from San Finncisco tq"rM Wellington, Mrs O'Neill, wife of MtMlJohn O'Neill, of Christchurch, dicd,"sff and was buried at sea. , AJsm Mr H. Gourley, of the-Timaru Postiff Office staff, who is retiring after years' service, was presented by thfill staff with a silver tea and coffee sefrpl vice and a case of pipes. The Chief P(«sf"# master (Mr Kissel) made the' presenilis tion, and his eulogy of Mr Gourley*i||| sorvicos was. endorsed by several othwlll members of the staff. ' .. '--^Ifff Our Dunedin correspondent iel-Hl •*-.iphs -—"The fact that tho Hon. J. As§# .uillar has intimated to his friendi>,_&X-_f intention to take up his pcrmaneai-'-r-i*' „fe sidenco at Remuera (Auckland) may be 4f: accepted as a preliminary to nouncement that he will not seek•■'-jrft&'l*? election for Dunedin West at oral election next year. : -:;'3lf The appointment.of Thomas'Spargoi||t Edwards to bo Captain in the SoutSlSl Island Battalion of tho Railway port and Engineers' _<orps, is g__etfc_d/%I" Captain Edwards, prior to his _aki_g|ff§ charge of tho Nelson railway, had _ee_«| lengthy service in tho Defence Forces «_.jS§ Now Zealand (says the Nelson "Mail' ')|tp At one time ho commanded a torpedo«SJp» boat nnd "crew >of 70 men. and qucntly was in charge of Fort Jctyo&Ww It is understood that Captain Edwardi'f'ls will be in command of that oompany of %? his battalion s-which is recruited, the Nelson and Blenheim sections of tho" iH 1 railway. -..", :;-'; »y&: