PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 345, 22 March 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr R. W. Carpenter, late proprietor of the Waimate Witness, has received an appointment on the literary staff of the Auckland Star. Mr. D. Elliott, Inspector of Stock tor the Hawera district, has been granted seven months' leave of absence in order to pay a visit to the Old Country next month. Mr. W. H. Herbert, of the "Up-to-Date," who has not been feeling quite up to the mark lately, leaves on Thursday on a trip to Sydney, combining business, pleasure, and recreation. Mr George Witty, M.P., "who operated upon for appendicitis at a private hospital early last week, is making very satisfactory progress, and it is expected that he will be about again in a week's time. Sir Wm. Russell has almost recovered from a recent indisposition. He intends resigning from the Hawke's Bay Ji'rfucation Board at Thursday's meewag, and will leave Wellington by the Rim_taka on April 7. ; Mr. A. E. Selby, until recently foreman joiner at Messrs. H. Brown and Co.'s New Plymouth works, has been appointed instructor in carpentry at the Dunedin Technical School. Mr. Selby bad access to the New Plymouth Technical School library when preparing for his City and Guilds examination. His immediate success as the result of securing his pass should act as an incentive to students. Information has just been received from Edinburgh that consequent on the retirement of R.W. Bro. James Go from the position of Grand Master of Scottish Freemasonry in New Zealand South, the M.W 7 . the Marquis of Tuilibardine, Grand Master of Scotland, has appointed R.W. Bro. David Cooke to the position. The commissions' has (says the Otago Daily Times) arrived in Dunedin, and the installation will take piaes shortly.

Mr. H. Eyre-Kenny, S.M., who was temporarily appointed in the place of Mr. Kenrick, S.M., who is absent on sick leave, is confined to his house with illness, necessitating a further adjournment of .the court. Mr. Kenny will not act any longer than the end of the month. No intimation has been received at Eltham as to when Mr. Kenrick returns, so in the meanwhile magisterial business in this district is at a standstill.—Press wire.

A highly esteemed Mataura Island young lady, Miss Hettie Graham, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs John Graham, who has' for some time been prominently identified with missionary movements, has decided to devote herself to active service in the foreign field. Towards that end (says the Wyndham Farmer) she has entered the Training College at Dunedin to qualify herself in nursing duties. It is more than probable that Miss Graham will in due course proceed to Bolivia, South America, and there join her relatives, Mr and Mrs George Allan, ex-Wvndham residents, who are engaged in evangelistic work among the Indian tribes there.