PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7805, 25 April 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr A. Vomey (lute of Auckland), .special teacher in the Wanganui l>istricti High School, has been promoted to tho directorship of the Wanganui Technical School. Mr Laidlaw, conductor of the Kaikorai Band, has .been appointed the judge at the band contest to.bo held at Ureymouth on 23rd and* 24th May. Mr E. Gerard, official assignee, left Auckland for New Plymouth last Wednesday on a vis.it of inspection to the deputy assignees on the West Coast. Mr A. Canning, of tho Lyttelton telegraph Staff, and Mr James Kerr, of tho Wanganui office, havo been appointed to the new telegraph office .it Te Aro. The Governor and Lady Plunket give a garden party at Elmwood, the vice regal residence at Christchurch on the 26th, and on the following day they visit the Maori pa ut Tuahiwi near Kaiapoi. The Rev. A. M'Bcan, of the Arai moho Wesleynn Church, was present"h 1 with a purse of sovereigns by the Longregatioii previous to leaving to take up his new duties at Johnsonville. Mr R. S. Rounlhwnitc, M. Inst., C.E., is at present engaged in drawing up a report f° r *' lo Johnsonvillo Town Hoard on a drainage system and water supply for tRe township. Mr H. M. Payne, of the Hawera District High School, who is leaving llawora to lake up a position in the Wanganui College, was entertained at a social evoning by the members of the Hawera Hockey Club.

The wedding of Mr L. Lcvinc, to Miss Margaret Fanny Fell, of Nelson, was recently celebrated at the Nelson Cathedral by the Bishop of "Nelson, assisted by the Rev. J- P. Kempthorno. Mr and Mrs Lovine will livo at Napier. Mr Robert Wilson, who for the last fourteen years has been connected with Ross and Glendining, Ltd.. has lately severed his connection with the lirm, and entered into 'partnership with l'hilps and Co., wholesale woollen merchants. Before Mr Jones, thp manager, on behalf of tins employees, presented Mr Wilson with a souvenir of regar-d. Mr James Kirker, general manager of the South British Insurance Company, was presented in Auckland with an inscribed clock aod silver I bowl, and a diamond crescent brooch for Mrs Kirker. These were the gifts of the company's staff throughout its world-wide service, to signify the personal esteem in which the general manager is held, and in recognition of the success tho company has achieved under his management.

Miss J. M'Kcllar, of New Plymouth, who came Home by the Ortona, says the Punudin Star, urrivipg on December 16 lias been paying visjts In various; parts of Englandmost ly in the soirfcfc. She is now staying at Ipswich. After a visit to London in May Miss M'Kcllar will spend the early summer months in Yorkshire and touring the West of Scotland. She hopes to return! by j,he- Orient Line—probably in September,—in tjino for the New Zealand summer,. ' ' The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star, writing on March 10 sjiys :—Misa Ethd'M. Staradish, of New Plymouth, left New Zealand at the end of October, coming as far as Naples in the Ortona. She spent three months .very pleasantly on the Continent, visiting Home, Florence, I'isa, 'Venice, Milan, through the St. Gothard to Lucerne, Interlak.cn 1 , Paris and Grindchvald. Miss Standish, who is now at Ipswich, hopes to come to London after Easter, and then to pay visits in the North of England and in Scotland during June and July, returning to spend spmp tiiiip in' Devonshire, Weymouth, Folkestone, Oxford, etc., returning to New Zealand tho tnd of tho