PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3701, 10 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Police Inspector Donovan visited Wairoa last week.

Mrs T. Holden, Miss Holden and the two Masters Holden left for the South last evening.

Air J. P. Gordon, of Motu, is at present suffering from illness._ He is being relieved by Air F. Auld. Air R. Al. Birrell leaves for Dunedin shortly on holiday. He will then go to the Bay of Islands and later proceeds to England.

Mr S. S. Dean left by the Takapuna last evening, en route for Auckland to .join Mrs Dean, whose mother is seriously ill. ' A Timaru P.A. telegram states that the Premier was entertained at luncheon there yesterday during a short stay between trains. A Gore P.A. wire says that the death occurred on Sunday of Mr William Edwards, a resident of- Croydon bush for the last 31 years, and a colonist of 69 years. Deceased, who was 89 years old, arrived at Auckland in is4l. In the early sixties he took part in the Otago goldfields rush and .subsequently went to the Gore district in 1881.‘ He‘leaves a widow and four sons and four daughters. Mr. P. McNaT) has been _ elected president of the Manawatu Philosophical Society. In accepting the .position Mr. M'Nab said he consented to do so with some misgiving, because it was possible, that during the latter part of the period lie would be in another part of the world engaged in his own particular branch of study. It was likely', therefore, that the next presidential address would be dictated in a foreign land and sent along by post.

Mr. Richmond Beetham, formerly stipendiary magistrate at Napier, Timaru, and Christchurch, died suddenly at Masterton last night from heart failure, at the age of 76. He had been fishing all 'day, and was walking in his garden with Mr. William Beetham, liis brother, when he suddenly fell back and expired without uttering a word.—P.A. Mr. Frank Heaton, M.A., 8.5. C., was yesterday- appointed headmaster of the Napier Boys’ High School, in succession to Mr. A. S. M Poison, who resigned to take tbe headmastership of a secondary school in Ballarat (Victoria). Mr. Heaton has for the last six years been on the staff of the Auckland Grammar School.—P.A. Mr. W. D. S. MacDonald, M.P., was entertained at a banquet by the Mofcti settlers on Saturday evening. There was a very large attendance, over which Mr. A. Donovan presided. Reference was made to Mr. MacDonald’s good work on behalf of the district, and bis health was enthusiastically toasted. Other toasts honored were “Parliament,” “Banking and Commercial Interests,” “Motu Settlers’ Association,” and “Oar Host and Hostess.”

The “Rangitikei Advocate” of December 5 contains the following: “A pleasing little function took place at Mart on Court- this morning when Mr (I. F. Bishop, as tbe oldest member, on behalf of Die Bar of Mar ton, presented Mr H. Morgan, Clerk of the Court, on the occasion of his recent marriage, with a handsome solid silver cream and sugar basins as a small token of their appreciation of bis courtesy and kindness.” Mr Morgan is the second son of Mr W. Morgan, of Gisborne.