PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9619, 12 October 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The friends 01 Mr J. Pinhey, who Jhas been seriously ill with rheumatic fever, wilJ .be pleased to learn that he is making satisfactory progress. Misses M. Rowley, M.A., and A. Dowdeswell, and Messrs G. Flux, H. A. Parkinson . and A. N Burns will represent the Wellington district at the Teachers' Conferencs next January. Mr S M. Strain, attorney in Cantsrbury for Messrs Ross and UJendining, Ltd , has found it necessary to retire, on account, of ill-health, . after 36 and a-half years' coninunus Bervica with the same firm.

Mr O. R. Snowball, whose election to the Federal Parliament :n succession to the late Sir Thomas Bent, is announced by cable, if Grand Master of the Rnyal Orange Institute of Victoria and' President of the Grand Council of Australasia.

Mr Atkinson, of the Hyde Park, Chicago, U.S A., branch of the Y.M.C.A., has accepted the position of general secretary to the Auckland Y,M.C.A. He is a Scotsman by birth, end has been attached to the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A. nearly thirteen years.

Dr. Ogston (states a Dunedin telegram) retires voluntarily at the end of the year from the position of district health officer for Otago and Southland, on the ground that he did not care to face another winter of arduous country work with both inspectors cut off. Mr Archiball Mitchell, son of Mr J. A. Mitchell, of Invercargill, has secured the position ot manager of Messrs J. G. Niven and Co.'s engineerin£v<.v?orks at papier. There were 207 applications, including a number from Australia. The position carries with it a salary of £4OO per annum. The death, is-reported of Mr Duncan Carroichael, brother of Messrs Allan and Alexander CarmicMel, of Lillburn. Mr Carmichael, who was seventy years of age, was well known to a large number of the earlier Bettlers in the western district of Southland, from which he removed many years back to take up land in the North Island, and was at the time of his death a large runholder In the Hawke's Bay district.

At the conclusion of the meeting of the Masterton Cricket Council, last evening, Mr A. Caselberg, took the opportunity on behatf of a number of cricket enthusiasts in Masterton to present a gold medal to Mr R. Moss, for his brilliant display of hatting in compiling 102 for Waixarapa against Hawke's Bay in February last. In a few well-chosen words Mr Caselberg congratulated Mr Mobs for his great performance, and expressed the wish that Mr Moss would again be seen makitig centuries on the cricket ground. Mr Moss suitably responded. Mr P W. G. McLeod, who has definitely decided to accept the musical appointment in New South Wales recently bfffeiretf'to him, will probably leave Masterton about Monday, 25th inst. He will go South on a visit to his mother and relatives, returning to Wellington, and proceeding to -Blenheim to fulfil his engagement as musical judge at the Jubilee Band Contest. On the completion of the competitions he will leave by the first outgoing Sydney boat. Mrs McLeod will stay in New Zealand for a few months, ultimately joining her husband about April or May, after the summer heat is over. Rev. R. E. Davies, M A., who has accepted the call to the pastorate of Knox Church, Duhedin is a Welshman by birth, and a graduate of the University of Wales. After completing his course of study in Wales, he spent four years at the Cambridge University, and took the theological tripos- He his specialised in Hebrew, and historical theology. He won the warm commendation of his tutors, some of whom are men of scholarly fame, for his character as a man, his ability as a student, and bis capacity for professorial work. He found scope recently for the exercise of his gifts ol scholarship during one or two sessions as the lecturer on the Greek New Testament and on Exegesis in St.Andrew's College, Sydney. During the seven years of his pastorate in Petersham (Sydney) his congregation has grown in numbers and the life and work of the church has consolidated.