PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12628, 16 October 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A farewell dinner will be given to Mr. Thomas Holden, late of Braeniore, Hunterville, on the 24th instant, at Hunterville. Apart from the kindness and hospitality always shown by Mr. and Mrs. Holden to all alike, Mr. Hoi<)en will leave a vacancy in the Uangitikei County Council that will be hard, to fill, having been a representative of tho upper district on that body for several years, besides being always to the for© in any movement of a. progressive nature. He leaves Hunterville acrr companied by the well wishes of everyone for his success and welfare. .

Says the " (Manawatu Standard ":— A farewell social was tendered on Wednesday evening to .Mr Henry MpEwen, late''of " Netherby,'' Karere, and his daughters, Misses Alice, Ada, and Annie McEwen, who are leaving the district to take up their residence in Waver ley. The fimctiion, which Was held in the local school room, was most ■cordial and enthusiastic throughout, and the audience, despite the inclemency of the weather, was a large and representative one, showing the esteem in which the members of the family are held by their former fellow residents. Ditrng an interval in-a short musical programme, Mr D, .Rowland, chairman of tho meeting, presented Mr McEwen with a gold albert chain and pendant inscribed: "To Mr H. McEwen, as a mark of "esteem . from his neighbours and fellow settlers." The chairman, on behalf of the residents, also presented the MLsfes;.McEweh with a goldmounted greenstone-brooch each, at the same time.!referring in complimen-tary-terms to the valuable services rendered at local entertainments by these young ladies, Mr Campbell responding on their behalf.- The Misses MoEwen were also presented 'with a souvenir each by the Kia Ora.Hockey Cub. After three ringing, cheers for the guests of the evening a most enjoyable gathering vris brought to. a- close with the singing of " AuTd Lang Syne." In Napier (says the " Daily Telegraph,)" , private advice has ; been received" .that .ex-Staff - Sergeant-Major Pewa.r-f.who was at one time stationed at- Napier and later at Wanganui, afterwards -went to .South .Africa as lieutenant witli one of the New. Zealand contingents, /and has more recently been connected in the capacity of an officer with the Malay States Guides, Strails Settlements—has ibeen appointed Assistant Superintendent of Police at Singapore. As there are 250,000 inhabitants in Singapore the position is an importiant one, and is much sought after, many aspirants who have applied having been unsuccessful. It is all the more creditable, therefore, to Mr Dewar that he has been apo-cunted without seekinig the office. Mr Dewar had just returned to Taiping from a few months' leave ait Home, where he studied successfully with a. view to important promotion in the Imperia 1 Army, -and his present good fortune came as a surprise, to himself more than others who were 'acquainted with him in the Straits Settlements. When he received the appointment he was suffering from a sprained ankle, but was slowly recovering and just able to put his foot to the ground. 'Mr Dewar is a keen T>olo r>layer, and -when stationed at Kuala Lumper previous to going Home on leave, used to play in the representative 'team of that place so successfully against Singapore. No doubt he will now find a place in the ranks of the Singapore team as coon as he recovers from ibis sprain and is settled in has new sphere.