PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 177, 17 July 1908, Page 3

PERSONAL.

My rinntot lin* been Heeled patron of «he X'alinerstou PUmket Xurse SoIciety. Applications lor the position of nurse are to be invited.—Press wire The Hawkes May Presbytery to-dav agreed to the rail ,ssued i„. th( , gallon of bt. David's Church, WoodvTll.' to the llev. liobert Uunlner, of Ziwluro, and accepted by him.—Press wire Mr. E. W. Christmas, the artist, wi,o' lornierly resided for a time in Wellin r. ton, Jias left Xew Zealand for Australia. llr. Christmas promises himself two years' absence from Xew Zealand, A Press Association cablegram states that Miss Irene Ainslcv has arrived in •Sydney, ell route for hir home in Auckland. Miss Ainsley is au Auckland young lady, whose fortune it was to secure the patronage of Madame Me!' when the diva toured the Domr about four years ago. Acting 011 adv.. Miss Ainsley went to London and subse (|Uently became a pupil of Madame Mar eliesi, in Paris. After -a long course ol study, she, through the agency el' Melbi,. made her debut under except! •onlitions, under the patronage of imyaltv

and in the presence <>f Jlelba and 'Mh'cliesi. Jliss Kinsley lu ls a rich, symp; thetic contralto voice of exception;] purity, which concert-lovers will haw the opportunity o£ judging fur them selves Inter oil, as the silver is to torn the colonies as the stellar attraction ol a concert company. 1 Mr. tinman Cameron, who died at 1 Cliristcliurch on Tuesday (July 14). w as ' the owner of the famous Springfield Ustate. Jlct liven, lie was si member of the Ijochiel branch of the Cameron clan. Ilis father ciimo on the paternal side from the Cameroris of Krrncht, and his mother belonged to another "branch of the Cameron*, the Mac-Martins, both ancient and distinguished Highland families. It was after the death of hip father | that jUr. Cameron in 1804 came to New Zealand. He had a. thoroughly practical knowledge of .sheep-farming, and on arriving in Canterbury, not being able to rent grazing land from the Croivn (it having been nil taken up), he accepted the .position of manager of the Winclimore run, and remained there for live years. | M 18U!) he and the late Mr. lieorge (lould bought the Springlichl Estate at .Melhven, which has become onr: of the well-known farms of the Do-

minion. In 188!) Mr. flould died, and in 18i)0 .Mr. Cameron became sole proprietor of Springlield, and lie introduced a most complete system of irrigation, tlm estate Inning some forty miles of water-raoes. Th« frozen meiit industry owes mueii to tlic late .Mr. Duncan Canieron, wiio also tool; a great interest in the work of local government.