PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3653, 14 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

A Wellington F.A telegram states that Mr. Maughan Barrett, Wellington City Organist, has been appointed City Organist for Auckland.

At yesterday’s eleven o’clock mass at St. Mary’s Church the Rev. Father Lane referred to the great loss the church had sustained in the departure from the district of 'Mr and Airs Phil Barry and Miss E. Parker. During the past eight years Airs Phil Barry Lad rennered invaluable services in connection with church and choir work and the vacancy' created by her departure to Tokomaru Bay would be impossible to fill. Afiss Parker bad always proved herself an agreeable member of the choir, and both choirmaster and organist bore testimony to the valuable assistance she had rendered. 'The reverend father also said that a farewell social would be tendered: to these ladies in Sir. Mary’s Hall on 'Tuesday evening next, when the programme would include a euchre tournament and items by several local singers. Admission would be free, and ho hoped to see a large attendance. The choir was especially strong yesterday, and their singing of “The Gloria,” ■“Credo,” “Benedictus,” and “Agnus Dei,” was especially fine.

A P.A. cable from Ottawa announces (the death of Sir Charles Mess, Chief Justice, at Ontario. Mr. T. J. Burnard, father of Mi-. L. T. Burnard, of the firm of Messrs. Kirk, Burnard, and Sicvwright, died at Dunedin last week. Mix L. T. Burnard is at present on a visit to Australia. Mr. R. B. Boss, of Pahiatua, will not .be present at to-day’s meeting of the Land Board. He telegraphed the Commissioner on Saturday, advising .his inability to come to Gisborne. Mr. B T. Sadd, Commissioner for Crown Lands .for Hawke’s Bay, was nnfotunate enough recently to meet with an accident to ibis right knee, which will render his unablo to move about the district, as he would like to during his stay here. Mr. Sadd will leave for the South on Wednesday. Mr. E. T. Sadd, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Messrs. B. B. Bess, B. M. Birrell, T. Hyde, and G. Wright, members of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, arrived from Napier on Saturday, for the meeting of the Land Board at Gisborne to-day. Mr, Lindrum, of the Gisborne Borough Council’s clerical staff, leaves Gisborne on Wednesday, and later proceeds to Melbourne to enter the Salvation Army Training College. Mr. E. G. Robinson has resigned from the local Lands Office staff, and leaves for his home at -Nelson on Wednesday. His Honor Judge Jones left for the Coast on Saturday to resume the sittings of the Native Land Court interrupted by the sittings of the Tairawhiti Land Beard, fc DJ. Jft’aHa^jJJfn^f:,4e<>ialist on crypascs <gi fe Smse, ancl be in g (iisl%raie. at 53 anadeffrdnflS a turday, O ctober 19, JjjjiP OcigpWzDfV. and may be consuljfd thereT '>4 -