PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7835, 30 May 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Ml " Luslv one of tha teachers at St. Mary s Sunslajp-school, was presented* on Monday evening by the-Hev. F. 0. Evans, on (behalf of the teachers,, with a set of silver afternoon teaspuont as a wedding gift'. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Pl'unkct leave Chnlstchurch today for Otago. They will bo in flu nodi n on Wednesday, and Milton °u Thursday, and after travelling through thq surrounding, districts wild leave Dunodin for Wellington on Juno 5. They will spend the winter? at Government House. + : Mr William Miller, whose death, in his %ihety,-liiifit wai& . lfepfcjHed last week, was the oldest Oddfellow, in Auckland, standing No. I on the books of the Fountain of Friendship Lodge. M.U. lie had been an active member of that lodge since 1848, and to show the health he enjoyed it may be added that .Mr Miller never drew sick pay throughout the lengthy period of his membership. Oij Thursday Mr J.A.Smyth (President, of the Clifton. Football' Club) presented Mr H. Spurdle with a prettv' watch chain pendant in tile shape of a football in gold, with the engraving "Presented to. Mr 11. Spurdle bv ( the members of the Cliiton Footbail Club |? s a uiark of esteem, May 20, 1005. Mr Smyth remarked that for lourteen years the recipient had been Secretary of the Club, and 'the members felt they must tangibly acknowledge his valuable services so willingly given.