PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr. 11. Dean Bam ford and Mrs. Barnford returned to Auckland rrom Wellington yesterday afternoon. Air. Robert Cairns of Waikiwi has been appointed garden overseer nt the W'aorenga. Kxpcrimcntal farm. Messrs \Y. T. Young and H. Richards. Wellington delegates to tile annual meeting of the l-'odfrated Seamen's Cnion to lie held in Auckland this week arrived by express yesterday. 1 Owing to his expected long absence ; from the colony. Sir James Mills has rci signed his seat on tlie Board of the 1 National Insurance Company, and Mr. 1 W. Downie Stewart has been elected to fill the vacancy. Alex-indeT Keir. one of the oldest ' refitdtemte of Charlton, four miles from ' Gore, died al Core last nright. aged 71 • years. IHe was iborn al I'ortJiishhrc, Scotland, and arrived iv Lyttelton in ISI>3. Deceased first introduced the Romney brocd of sheep in the d'is I riot j—Press ■ Association. IProfeissor Black, who ius professor of chemistry at Otago I'niveisity, was widely popular, is disposing of his interest in the run at Mason's- Hay to which he retired after giving up Cniversity work. J-Jiri advancing yeans make it compulsory for him to give up active ■ work. JA At Lyttelton last night Sir Joseph Ward, in the ICxeelsior Hall, unveiled a portrait of Mr. (ieorge Laiiienson (late member I. There were :il'() |ier.sons present, including tlie Postmaster-General ' and many members of both Houses. Sir ■ Joseph Ward said Mr. I.iiurenson had devoted the best part of his life to the service of his district and to the service of the great mass of the people of NewZealand. The Hon. |{. 11. Rhodes said Mr. had championed every ' cause wllioli he believed was just and for the uplifting of humanity.—Press Association. A private cable received from Loudon ; records lite deaih of Mr. Codfrey IMIOulloch. aged 42. only 1-011 of the late Mt. Henry 'McCulloch. magistrate at Invcr.KtrgTll (for -J.H years. Deecas'.'d. who was a native of lnvcireargill. and educated in the Roys-' High School, left .for South Africa in IS.M. and' was appointed! magistrate ai Fori Victoria. He ' went through the. Matahcle war with 1 (le.nr-ral Kide.n Powell, and afterwards 1 (became magistrate at. Salisbury. He was lor (some years in Uganda, whence Ibv made three trifi? overland to Salls--1 bury, each occupying nearly two years, j •land with 110 companions ibu-t native j .bearers, tra veil ing down the Lakes ; through British and German liaet Africa and Portuguese, territory. Whil-p e.!e- ---■ p'ba-nt hum ing in iFhooesia he contracted • «leeping sickness, and' nine months ago 1 he M&ilnd for London for trea-bittcaL *t tbe Tropical Sch-rol of Medicine. - 1