PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Judge Jones, of the Native Land Court, lias completed immediate business at Tolaga Bay, and will hold a sitting at Tokomaru.

.Mr. R. R. Martin, organiser of the Political Reform League, was a passenger to Gisborne by the s.s.

The Dunedin City Council appointed Mr. Stark, formerly engineer to the Waipori Electric Company, acting electrical city engineer, at a salary of £7OO per annum. The Methodist Conference sitting

in Sydney elected the Rev. Danks successor to Dr. Brown as general secretary of the Church Missionary Society. Miss Edith Webb, Mils. Bac., who received her diploma last Thursday, is the first Aucklander to take the degree. She’ has passed the six examinations without one failure, including the degree cantata (which ’S sent to England), and was accorded the first place. This young Aucklander, while working for - the examination, was earning her living by teach-

ing music. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that Mr. Claude Ccklicutt, of Auckland, who is studying for his degree at Edinburgh University has carried off first class

honours in class examinations in clinical medicine, systematic surgery, and midwifery. He has also taken second-class honors in systematic medicine and third prize in the midwifery classes.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that ..Captain the Hon. Nigel GathornetHardy, sth Northumberland Fusiliers and Lieutenant Edward Lycott Lyon, 18th Hussars, have been ajipointed A.D.C.’s to Lord Plunkct. Lieutenant Lyon is on his way out from England by the Omrali. Captain Gnthorne-Hardv accompanies Lady Plunket to New Zealand via Canada.

Tho ranks of medical men in the town is to be further added to by the arrival of Dr. Alexandei* Stewart, who intends to commence practice about the 18th inst. Dr. Stewart -s a graduate of Glasgow University, and after acting as assistant in the country for some time, he practised in Glasgow for ten years. He arrived in New Zealand in January

last, and had charge of the Cromwell Hospital and. district for a month, and the Riverton Hospital for a like period. Previous to coming to Gisborne Dr. Stewart had been acting for some time as locum tenens for a doctor in Balclutlia.

A Press Association message from Auckland states that v-iss Martha is. Bedgood died at flic residence of her brother at Pailia, Bay of Islands, on Tuesday, May 28tli. She was a daughter of one of the old missionaries, !>nd was born at Waimate iNjortli in 1837, in the first “wharepuriri” built by tho" missionaries in that, the oldest settlement in N.Z. In her childhood she witnessed some .of the exciting incidents connected, with Helve’s war in 1845. Her active life had been for the most part devoted

to Maori work. Miss Bedgood s last public work was to tour the Auckland diocese some years ago as a Bible colporteur. Bishop Cowue used to value her information as to Maori work. Her remains were laid to rest on Thursday, May 30th, in the churchyard at "Waimate North, within a few chains of the place of her birth. The funeral service was partly in English and partly in Maori, being conducted by Archdeacon Walsh and the two local Maori clergymen.

About 20,000 acres'of land in Moliaka No. 1 and No. 2, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay,, will shortly be cut up. Seventeen thousand acres .will he leased to the natives, and the balance leased to the highest bidder, European or native. The blocks will be cut up in various sizes.