PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3191, 17 May 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr R. G. Money, ot the literary staff of the "Manawatu Daily Times," left for Christchurch on Saturday last, to take up an important position on the staff of the newsporting paper there, the "Spectator." Mr Colin Allan, aged 87 yearf£ who came out to New Zealand in IBs§r under engagement to the Otago Prd» vincial Council, is dead, states a Press Association telegram from Dunedin. He was the first schoolmaster at Port Chalmers, and was immigration officer till 1888, when assisted immigration ceased. Mr Henry Trent, Commissioner of Lands for Hawke's Bay, who is retiring from the public service, was entertained at Napier on Friday night at a dinner by the Civil Service Association, and presented with an illuminated address signed by the ofnceis of the Lands and Survey Department in the Hawke's Bay and Nelson districts. Mrs T. M. Wilford will leave Wellington for Scotland in July, with her son, George McLean Wilford, who has been apprenticed to Denny Bros', engineering works, Clyde, for a period"of five years. He will enter as a student at Glasgow Technical College. At the completion of his apprenticeship he goes to America for two years with a Pittsburg engineering firm. Mrs Wilford will stay Home for a year. The Associated Board of the R. A.M. and R.C.M., London, announces that Mr Frederick Cliffe, who occupies a distinguished position amongst English musicians, will this year conduct the board's practical examinations in New Zealand. Mr Cliffe has held pianoforte professorships at the Royal Academy and the Royal College, and has held several important appointments as organist—to the Bach Choir and the Bradford Festival Choral Society, among others. Mr Purcell Webb, the newly appointed organist to Knox Church, enjoys the distinction of having been tha youngest organist in Great Brit ain. At twelve years of age he was appointed organist of St. David's Church, Bangor, North Walee. Among other appointments, Mr Webb was organist of Grafton Cathedral, and also solo organist at the New Zealand Exhibition. He has been very successful in the trainingof vpupils, some of them having won gold and silver' medals, at Sydney, for singing and pianoforte playing, at the time of the Duke and Duchess of York's visit. His pupila have been very successful at examinations. Mr Webb has also had the honour of playing the pianoforte before the Governor of New South Wales.