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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8445, 12 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The late Sir W. S. Gilbert's estate has been valued at £111,971.

The llight Hon. A. J. Balfour, who , is indisposed, has left London for Gastin, in the Austrian. Alps. #i

Mr Coghlan, Agent-General for NewSouth V\aifs, is convalescent, says a London cable message.

Mulai Km fid, the Siiltan of Morocco, is reported to be suffering, from typhoid, his condition being .serious.

Mr Ernest Nordon, secretary of the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers' Association, was in Ashburton to-day.

Mr J. J. Littlejolm, engineer to tlieWaimea County Council, lias been appointed engineer to the Nelson City Council. There were eighteen applications from various parts of the .Dominion.

Earl Hussell, who in 1901 was found guilty of felony by the House of Lords and "sentenced to three months' imprisonment, has (says a Press Association message) been granted a free pardon.

, The- death has just taken place of Mr Jonathan Dixon,'manager for the Westport Coal Company at Westport. The deceased;,' who was/ 08 years of age, had a large and varied experience, having been about sixteen'years a mine manager in New South Wales a-nd about two years a Government inspector of mines in that State. He is survived by a widow and severifof a- tamily— one of his sons being manager of the Westport Coal Company's Coalbrookdale mine. ,

Mr J. B. Thomson, a well-known resident of Duncdin, died very suddenly yesterday afternoon as the .result _ot 'heart failure. He arrived wl^ 5 and was Mayor of Dunedin-in,1882. Mr Thomson was seventy-one-years,of age:

The death occurred at Christchurch, last night of Miss Griffiths j who acted as matron of the Ashbnr'ton County Hospital for upwards of five years. A few months ago, Miss Griffiths was compelled to resign her position on account of failing health, and subsequently she underwent a painful operation at the Christcliurch Hospital. She rallied from the effects of the operation, but a relapse vset in and she had several paralytic seizures, anl - lapsed into an unconscious state from which she failed to recover. Miss Griffiths, who was held in very high respect by a- large circle of friends, had an'extensive experience of nursing in, several of the chief hospitals in the Dominion, and in the exercise of her profession she was exceptionally kind, practical and clever. The announcement of her^ death has excited profound regret among her large circle of friends in Ash burton, Grey mouth, and Christchurch.

The Hertford Scholarship of Oxford University was this year • awarded to Mr Cyril Asquith, (scholar of Balliol College), Proximo Accessit, Mr John Bell (scholar of Balliol). and Mr Arthur De C. Williams (cxhibitionor of Balliol), By securing one of the chief classical awards of the year, Mr Asquith, the third and youngest son of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by his first wife, maintains the brilliant academic .traditions of the family He gained a scholarship from Winchester bchool in 1907, thus repeating the achievement of his eldest brother, Mr Itnymond Asquith, whose own 1 career affords striking comparison with that of Ins father. . The Prime Minister obtained a Balliol Scholarship in. 1870----twenty-nine years ] ater Mr Raymond' Asquith secured a similar honotirV Both father and son won the Craven Scholarship and whereas in 1874 the profit read or the Government '^gained a Fellowship at Balliol, Mr Eaymond A&-' ?» to 8'?/*^ a Fello^°f Allßonlsm iyO2,. the year m , which h«, also carried off the Eldpn Law Scholarsliip*