PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 215, 20 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The many friends of Mr. Fred Hardy, will be pleased to learn that his condition has much improved during the last few ; days. Mr./ Mrs. and Miss May Curtis returned to Inglewood mi Friday evening after a holiday trip through Australia. Miss Ivy Curtis remains in Wellington for a few days. Mr. Eustace Lane) representative of the Crown Tenants on the Hawke's Bay, Land Board, announces himself as a candidate for the Hawkc's Bay seat at the next election. He will stand in Independent and Labor interests. Mr. E. Parrott, Mayor of Eltham, followed Mr. Stanners, the previous Mayor, in more ways than one. Like Mr. Stanners, he is to be presenter! with a silvdg cradle, in honor of the birth of h# son during his term of oflice. Mr. R. McNab has given the constituency in Hawke's Bay which wished him to pledge himself to'contest the seat at the next general election, definitely to understand tlr.it for various circumstances, he dues not see his way to give such a pledge (says the "Manawarr Standard.")

Bishop Geary, writing from Varij -<n •{ the way to Rome on October 31, to tho Rev. Father Coffey, Adin. Dunedin, intimated that he will «o to Dunedin fjohi Melbourne, via the Bluff, and then j.ro- ... ceed to Auckland. His Lordship has'se- ~ cured the services of one young priest .* for his diocese, also M>me postulaius. > Miss E. Griffiths, M.A., one of the as- ' sistant mistresses »t the Auckland Girls* Grammar School, has given up teaching ', for work in connection with the Austra-, . lasian Young Women's Christian Association. Miss F. V. Jucobsen, M.A., is also temporarily leaving the -taff at the end of this year to spend twelve months in . England. Next year's fthotles scholar for Xcw . . ■Zealand "will be sclectetj in Wellington ■ this morning There are three cai.di- • dates for the Board of 'Selection to choose ■■ from, their names .and the colleges they - -. ; . ; represent being: David S. Smith, Vic-. toiia College; Mor.tnsriie Ongley. Otngw .<; University \ Alfred George Marshall, Auckland University. College. ■+s