Personal Notes

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 293, 15 December 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes

Mr G, H-. McDonald, secondi officer uf the Rotoita, has been transferred to a similar capacity in the Manuka, Mr A. C, Showman transferring to the Rotoitii.

Captain E. C. Hood, harbourmaster at New Plymouth, is to be married to-day at the Pitt-street Methodist Church, Auckland, to Miss Craig, sister of Mr J. J. Craig, of Auckland.

Mr E. G. Allsworth, who arrived from Wellington on Tuesday in order to attend the Board of Education meeting after interviewing the Minister of Education, expects to leave for Onehumga to-night. The Timaru Garrison Band has appointed Herr Fritz Paul conductor. There were 11 applicants from New Zealand and Australia. Professor Paul is at present conductor of the Braidwood Band, New South Wales. The Governor paid an official visit to Wongonui on Wednesday. The weather, was windy and wet; nevertheless a big muster of the public turned up in the afternoon. His Excellency visited the Boys' School and received an address of welcome from thfl school n nd Municipal Council. In the evening Lord Plunket delivered prizes! at the Collegiate School.

After a protracted illness, the Rev. Samuel Thornton Dickinson; minister of the Pres-byiterian Church, New South Walee, died at the manse early on Sunday morning (December 4). The deceased was, with one or two exceptions, the oldest-ordained and actively-employed minister in the State. He was born in Moscow in 1835, in which year his parents were travelling through Russia. He was ordained to the ministry in 1860, at Wigan, Lancashire, and came out to New South Wales in 1883. His first appointemnt was to Yass, where lie remained about seven years. His fiecond- and last appointment was to the Gladesville parish where ho'had been actively engaged for the last fourteen- years. When Sir Arthur Renwick erected a mis-sion-hall at A'bbotsford he conducted services there up to a short time ftgo, when he was compelled to resign through ill-health. Mr Dickinson was also chaplain of the Gladesville Hospital for Insane, and of the Newington Asylum.