PERSONAL NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7825, 18 May 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES

Sir Robert Stout has been elected Chairman of the Victoria College Council.

A movement is on foot to make a citizens' presentation to Mr W. Aitkin, the late Mayor of Wellington. ■ A meeting was held in connection with the matter on Wednesday, and a committee was appointed to make arrangements. Tho maDy friends of Mrs John Knight, a very old resident of New Plymouth, will learn with regret of her death, which occurred about 8 a.m. on Wednesday. The deceased lady, who was hold in very high esteem by all who knew her, had been long predeceased by her huabsnd.

Speaking at Fairlio Creek last week Sir W.J. Steward, M.H.R., said he would have served his constituency for twenty-four years by the end of next session. He had a small aspiration to celebrate his silver jubilee in Parliament, and if he were returned at next election would fulfil his little ambition, and would be satisfied Members of St. Mary's choir were entertained last night at the vicarage, when occasion w ; as taken of presenting Miss M. Evans, who for some time has been a most enerpetic chorister, with a writer's companion, with monogram, engraved. Mr Bannister, in a felicitous speech, expressed sincere good wishes' for Miss Evans' future. Miss Evans leaves shortly to enter the Wellington hospital as nurse. "An interesting figure will shortly disappear from the public service," s.iys the London Graphic, "hv the retirement of Mr J. Cameron Lamb, C.lt., tho Second Secretary of the Post Office, who has been connected with the department for upwards of forty years. Jlr Lamb will be best remembered for the services which he has rendtred on ninny international conferences, both at home and abroad during the past 20 years, for which ho has been decorated by the British, rtelgian, Danish, and other' Governments. Two years ago he presided over the International Telegraph Conference in London, ami he was also a member of the Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with lightships." Mr Lamb is a brother of the late Mr It. Lamb, of Nap,!er, and uncle of Mr R. C, Lamb, of the Bank of New South Wales, Wellington.