PERSONAL.
Mr. Jennings, M.P., is to be entertained at Ohakunc shortly. The Prime Minister will be invited. The Professorial Board of Otago University has nominated Mr. Hector -McLean, M.A., us the U.iiver>ity's candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship for the current year. Mr. .McLean took first-class honors in menial science. Professor G'ilray is to replace Professor Beahaui on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee.
A eompliinen..iry "social" will be tendered ilr. J. T. M. Ilornsby, the late i member for Wairaiapa, on the 17th inst, ; He will be given a purse of sovereigns in recognition of bis services, and also a special presentation on behalf of the railway men all over the Dominion.
The death occurred at 1.30 on Monday morning of Mrs, John Speedy, wife of Mr. J. Speedy, of Buriiview station, Wafnui, says a Damievirke Press Association message. She was a very old resident of the colony. She arrived with her father, Mr. Bruce, in IS4O and settled at the Hutt. She married there j and went to live at Waimii before any ■ white people had been there. She 'leaves a large family and is survived by her husband, who is 80 years of age, and is still hale and hearty
(Jovernor !Solf and his nc , \vl.v-'vrcdOt- , il wife arrived here on November 2ii (writes the Tongan correspondent of 'the Auckland Herald), and have been accorded a great reception. The whole town was tastefully decorated, while, .the ships in the harbor were dressed out in their best colors. Whatever may be said about Herman colonial rule in other parts of the world, it cannot be I denied that Governor Solf has been a. I most able and discreet ruler, and a eon-1 structive statesman of singular ability, not only able to set alloal new and harmonious regulations of material valueto every phase of this varied coinmiinily, but able to avoid flic many pitfalls and mistakes, so easily arising, where interests were in the beginning found to lie so utterly conlTicting, and apparently hopelessly entangled.
' The ilcntli occurred al Dimedin on i Thursday of Mr. Thomas Miller, inspector of permanent ways in the. local department of thn New Zealand railways. Sir. Miller was for thirty-two years la the railway service, and had been in the Otago district for the past, ten or twelve years. During the last two or three years he has licen inspector in charge of the T)uncdin-10-Mosgicl duplication works. He was iifty-six years of age.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 295, 8 December 1908, Page 3
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407PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 295, 8 December 1908, Page 3
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