PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 335, 10 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards is a passenger for Wellington by this morning's express. »i London cable announces the death of Mi Hugh Colin Smith, a director ot the Bank of England. Mr. Stanford, of Messrs. Spenee and Stanford, of Stratford, was admitted as a barrister -.luring the present Supreme Court sessions, upon the motion of Mr. Speict. Nurse Collins, formerly of the Hawera Hospital stall, but until recently attached to the Pa tea institution, has received the appointment of Si9ter at t.:e Sanatorium, Cambridge. Mr A. F. Harding, captain of the Anglo - WcMi football team that toured New Zwilnud two years ago, nas joined the accountants' branch of the lirm of Messrs Wilford and Levi. Two new Congregational ministers. Rev. Ernest A. Bridget- and Rev. VV. Tanner, arrived in (Wellington by the Kimtitaka from London on Tuesday. I Mr F. Carew-Thomas, vicar of IngleI wood, has announced his intention of resigning from his 'position. Mr S. \V. Fitzherbert, solicitor, left Feilding on Saturday, en route to England, where he intends to take up his residence. Mrs Fitzherbert accompanied her husband. Mr Fitzherbert, who is a son of the Stipendiary Magistrate at New Plymouth, contemplates taking up literature as a profession in Kngi land.

Mr. A. E. Selby, for the past ten years foreman joiner at Messrs. H. Brown and Co.'s Morley-street works, was the recipient yesterday afternoos of a 'presentation at the hands of hi* fellow workmen. The presentation, which was made by Mr. C. Ahier, took the form of a watch-chain with pendant and a silver matchbox. Mr. Selby suitably acknowledged the gifts. He is to be succeeded by Mr. Marshall, late of Dunedin.

Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., chairman of the Napier Harbor Board, on Monday pj-astutoii Captain Bower, of the steamer Wakauui (son of Captain M. N. Bower, Napier's town clerk), with a 'barograph to mark the occasion of his bringing in the first Home steamer to loiid frozen meat from the breakwater. Mr. Brown referred to the fact that Captain Bower was a Napier boy who had entered the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice, and had worked his way up to the proud position he now occupied. He added that .Mr. J. ]. (ato, Napier manager of the Shipping Company, was also a Na- '■ pier boy, having entered the service as a lad and risen to the managership of a branch that was one of the most important in New Zealand. Mr. J. P. Kenny, too started with the Napier Harbor Board as a lad, and had since worked his \ r aj up to the secretaryship The Rev. James Chisholm, the veteran Presbyterian minister, who has resigned on the ground of impaired physieal energy, is 07 years of age. He first arrived in Dunedin in 1858, and after studying at the Edinburgh University, -returning to New Zealand, accepting a call to the Tolromairo (Milton) parish, where he labored for 28 years. After spemlin;,- two ytars in organising work. Mr. Chisholm took charge at Palmerston North, being called in 1901 to Roslyn, where ho has remained ever since. He was Moderator of the. General Assembly in 1908-0. Mr. Chisholm published in ISB9 "Fifty Years Syne," a history of Church of'otajro and Southland, which have proved very popular among soutV \ern Presbyterians. In the letter conveying his resignation, which was read at\ the Otago Presbytery, Mr, Chisholm sai<d: "9o far as I know, the only ministers living or dead who have served the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand and foxed pastors for a period of over forty \vears are the Revs. William Will. Thomnfc Norrie.__nwT Willia:!'. Gillies. The firU is still alive, the secona died In lOOoAand the third in 100 S. Though not attaining to these first three, it Tii\s fnlloA to my lot to come next, with a pastorale record of forty years."