PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 11

PERSONAL.

A Presa Association telegram from Christchurch reports the death of Mr. Alexander Macfarlane, of Achray, a wellknown North Canterbury runholder, aged 50 years.

Mr Justice Edwards, who with Mr Justice Cooper will preside over the Supreme Court civil session which opens -next -week, is expected to arrive by the express to-morrow morning.

A meeting of the directors of the Standard 'Insurance Company in Dunedin yesterday appointed Mr Arthur H. Fisher general manager, in succession to Mr T. R. Fisher, who is retiring.

Dr Sprott, Anglican Bishop of Wellington, is expected to arrive in Auckland next Wednesday to take part in the Lenten services for men. During the week he is in Auckland he will be a guest a Bishopscourt.

The Rev. Father Edge, of Ponsonby Sacred Heart Parish, has been appointed organiser of the Catholic Federation in Anckland, and the Rev. Father Golden has been appointed as assistant parish priest.

Mr K. T. Woodward passed the final examination for the medical degree at the recent examinations held at Otago University. Dr Woodward is the fir6t old boy of King's College to pass this examination.

Mr J. J. Fraser, draughtsman in the Public Works Department, was presented with a handsome souvenir by his confreres of the Auckland office prior to his departure by the southern express last evening on Transfer to Dunedin.

A public meeting at Temnka last night made a presentation to Mr T. Buxton, M.P., and Mrs Buxton, on the eve of their peparture for England on a business and pleasure trip. Mr and Mns Buxton catch the Orvieto at Sydney for London, and will return via Canada in July.

Captain Baxter, an old and highly respected resident of Coromandel, died at the Coromandel Hospital yesterday at the ripe age of 85 yeare. In the early days he traded between New Zealand and Tasmania. Deceased had no relatives in the Dominion.

Mr Milton Mcßae, an American journalist and an officer of the Associated Press of the United States, arrived at Wellington from Sydney hy the Tahiti on Thursday and intends to tour the Dominion, commencing with the South Island. He is to write a series of articles for a chain of American papers on his travels and observatkrae.

The Rev. Oanon MacMuiray, who was

the victim of a motor car accident at Nelson on Saturday, was not sufficiently recovered to return north with the other

Auckland delegates to General Synod. He is expected to return next week, and

in has absence the preacher at St. Mary's Cathedral to-morrow will be the Bishop of the diocese.

Mr H. W. Capper, who has been chief postmaster a-nd deputy commissioner of stamps at Timaru for the last five years, retired yesterday on superannuation, after 42 years' service. The post office staff presented him with a purse of sove-

reigns. Mr Capper's health has not been good lately. He intends to leave shortly for Auckland, where two of his 6ons are settled.