PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2744, 24 February 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. R. Webster, general secretary of the local branch or the Y.M.C.A., left for the .South by the s.s. Victoria last evening, where he will spend a. holiday racat-ion.

A cablegram from Ottawa states that the condition of Professor Goldwin Siiiit-h is critical. Mr Robert Fletcher was yesterday elected chairman of the M ellington Harbor Board.

A London cablegram states that Mr. C. P. Cooke, an Australian, lias been awarded the rowing “blue” in -the Cambridge boat. A deputation waited on Dr. Newman, t-lie retiring Mayor of Wellington, yesterday, asking him to re-eonsider his decision not to seek reelection for the City Mayoralty. Dr. Newman .promised to reply in a few days.

The Minister of Railways leaves Wellington for Australia by the Manuka on "March 25. He visits Sydney, Brisbane. Adelaide, and Melbourne and returns to Wellington. .Ho expects to be absent form the Dominion for about five weeks. M. Alex. Crawford. 8.A., one of the inspectors under the Nelson Education Board, returned l to Gisborne after an absence of six years by the Tarawerft vesterday to .spend a short holiday. Prior to his appointment as an inspector, Mr. Crawford was for four years headmaster of Te Arai school, and later on was appointed first assistant of tlie Gisborne school, which position he held until lie was selected assecond inspector for tlie Nelson Board. Mr. Crawford attended the Inspector’s Conference at Wellington last- week, which had under consideration a number of important proposals to advance the cause of education in the Dominion.

Mr. W. A. Harvey, of the firm of Jaggin and Harvey, ship chandlers, Auckland, arrived in Gisborne yesterday, on a visits A