PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 211, 11 October 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. Keardon, principal warder at the. Duncdin prison since 1903, has been appointed gaoler at Hokitika. The Rev. V. E. IScecroi't, ex-president of the .Methodist Conference, has been unanimously invited to remain for another year in the Feilding circuit, and has accepted the invitation.

Madame Melba, in accordance with a. promise she made some time ago, visited the University Conservutorium of Music at Ballaral liist month, and spent our two hours in giving the students' lessons in singing.

A Sydney cable slates that Sir James Mills '(managing director of the Union S.S. Co.) and Mr. Geo. Fenwick (editor of the Dunediii Times and delegate to tile Imperial Press Conference) are pussengers by the Manuka which left Sydney for Wellington on Saturday.

Says the Gisboruc Herald:—Mrs. ,1. 1,. Perrv, for some years resident at Wuimata, recently had to move to New Plymouth,.on account of her health. Mrs'. Perrv was highly esteemed, and as a token of their respect for her, she has been presented by her Waitnal'i friends with a handsome silver afternoon ten tray, suitably inscribed.

Dr. aud Mrs. Morice, of (1-rey.inoulli, rcccnllv usilcd Cnrdiir, being »i'itr:i:-l<-l llicre bv the wonders of I he Wcl-li pig.ml, al Cardiir.au cpi-odc whi-h llie famous Church pugeanl at Fulliain. line of Hie most wonderful things al Hie Cardiir pageant was the singing of

'• Wales. Wales," by some 24,0110 voice,. Dr. and Mrs. Morice are expected to return lo New Zealand about February. On the occasion of the retirement, of Mr. I). 1). Hyde, poultry expert, from the Government service some little time ago, lie was made the recipient of a silver-mounted oak tray, silver hotwater keltic, afternoon tea service, and butter dish, Mr. Brown, on behalf of the office staff and friends, making the presentation. Mr. Hyde has now gone in for poultry farming at Paiaparauinu and is doing well.

Mr. 0. X. Daoycrtz, of Duncdin, acted as elocutionary adjudicator at the Ballarat competitions on September 28. On his arrival in the city he was accorded a civic welcome. Tn the course of a graceful acknowledgment of the courtesy extended to his wife and himself, M:'. Baeyertz assured the mayor that Ballarat was by no means unfamiliar to him, as his father .had been in the National Hank there some 45 years ago; his uncle, Mr. Richard Gibb, had been engaged in mercantile pursuits there; while Mrs. Baeyertz and he had spent their honeymoon in the city.