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Press, Volume L, Issue 14977, 26 May 1914, Page 7

' by the Government for tho LyttelB?v Benjamin .Both* ell., who has left the district. . Mr V D. Spence, manager in Wint%ce. -vho will be rosidcni leaves Dunedm in a lew weeks time. » p Association telegram from tfilin"on sum-s it is likely that iho Hnn W M. Hughes, president, or tho \«*t»iian Labour Federation and late \UoSy General of the CommoniVaUb "ill a« e » d thc La ,oUr i L mty Congre*> to be held in Wellington m July! Mr and Mrs Irving Slaacn, of -New Brighton, leave this week on a business Spleacuro trip to the OM Country Thnv love on t nday ly the"M«iJng.'inHi for Sydney, where they loin the Ot»ay for London. -Mr and Mrs Sladen exprct to t»e a".vay lor Icren or eight months. It was currcn-.ly reported in Chr.stdiurcli yesterday that -Mr .K. A. Bekber had r«»*i?nea his noMtion as heednwster of Christ's .Co>go. Both Bi*bop Julius, vnn is V>rtrden ot Christ's Collego. and Mr aro st present absent from th* <;:ty. and members of the Board of Governors who tr«r« ..em yrsUrd.iy routed to make any statement on tho subject tor publication. The Wellington agent of tho Press Association telegraphed laS. night:-— Mr M: L. Rending, who is r-hnquisn-inc tho poiition oi associato editor of tbft "New Zealand Time*, , ' to tnlco over tho editorship of tho •'Lytteltou Titnos." was entortaintvl by a number o? leading citiwn* this and presented with a purse of sovereigns. Sir Joseph Ward nuido tho iiresentntion end >-poko in hifrhly appre.-uttivo terms of tlx? piitst of iho evening. 3ir Kobert Fictciier .-nul other speakers cordially snpponod Sir Joseph "Wards eulogy of Mr Ile.ulins'e qualities ns a journalist and a citizen.

At Duncdin ye-stordny afternoon Captain Strang, Marine Superintendent of the Union Swam Ship Company, who is leaving on a holiclny trip to i-.<> Homo Country, prior to his retirement from the company's service, wa * " ,et by the offico staff of tho head office and presented by Mr managing director, oii their behalf, with a pyrso of sovereigns. In making the presentation. Mr Holdsworth remarked that Caotain Strang had been assoiiatcd with tho company for tho post thirty years, and that he had brought one or' its oarlioft steamers, the Tanno. put from its builders at Grocnork. Ho wk-fc-rd Captain Strnng j> pleasant holiday, iind hoped that hornicht. be long spared to enjoy his well oarued rotirernent. Captain S'trnng suitably replied.