PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

9 — The Her. Mr Aitken left for "Wellington yesterday. Captain Eastwood left for the ncrtl* .' Ti-"E£t ferry steamer. Mr C. Speight was among la*t night* j departures for Wellington. \ The Rev. E. Budd left for the norti last night. The Rev. Mr Hughes was a P«* sealer by tho Maori for Wellington last night. Tho death is announced of Mrs Beggt widow of tho late Mr Charles Beggf founder of the Dunedin firm of -uessn Charles livgg and Co., Ltd. Mr H. E. I>it£f, of the Christcliureh. Vest Office staff, who has been p»motod to the Wellington office, leartf to-flay to take up his new duties. Mr S. Piki, a member of th* sl *™* team of iootballer* which vtsited Au* tralia lart year, and who broko a leg at Sydney, 'returns to Christchnrcb OD Thursday. Mr A. Macpherson, Fields Insiractor, South Island, returned from the >OTtn on Sunday. He leavoe t^ l^,^ 1 ?*. , spect some esperimonts m South uu> . . terbury. Mr W. A. Hawkins, Registrar of the . Supremo Court, Chriefcchurch, who lg been appointed to a similar position »

Wellington, will take up his duties in Wellington about the middle of next tnonth. Miss Henrietta Smith. M.A., of Melbourne, has boen appointed assistant mistress of tho Southland Girls High «chool. Miss Smith, who is twenty-five Tears of ago, has had a distinguished icholastio career. She is an ex-pupil of tie Southland Gi:T.-" High School, having entered in 3003 with a junior Education Board scholarship. In 1910 she gained the M.A. degree. On leaving the University she took a sole charge school at Wairio, and was later appointed assistant in tho Temuka District Hich Srhool. She wa* also relieving teacner in tho Girls' High School for a period during 1910. At the end of 1912 Miss Smith went across to Melbourne, at the sfK-ond request of Dr. Fitdiett, the president, to teach in the Methodist Ladies' College there. The trustees of th<? Nelson School of Music have appointed Mr John Tait. A-R.C.0., to Dβ teacher of singing, organ and musical theory. Mr Tait. irbo has just arrived in NrUon from Edinburgh, comes with high credentials as a teacher of music. Hp studied singin? under Mr Albert Visotti. of the Royal College of Music, London, and Signor Ricri of Florence. For some Tf*ars pa*t Mr Tait has had <v>nsiclr>rasle experience in training both amateur and professional singers in Edinburgh, and bo has tra-ned a high reputation as a choirmaster and conductor of choral societies (?nys tho "Colonist"). For organ playing he was a pupil of Mr Charles Gould, org nist to t"ho Diiko of 'iiuccleugh. and also of the lnte Dr. Turcin. of London. Prior to his lwiving Edinburch, Mr Tait was organis* and choirmaster at St. James's U.F. Chnrch in that city.