PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 187, 7 August 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Rev. E. ID. Emm, of St. Peter's •Anglican Church, Oaversham. Dunedin, hae accepted a call to Baltimore, U.S.A. Dr. Te Kangihiroa, M.P. for the Nortbern (Maori district, left by the express for Wellington last night. iMt. iA. I). Kaye, late of the Besses o' tli' (Barn IBand, bae 'been appointed conductor of the In vert-argil 1 Dominion Band. Mr. J. Gordon Coates. M.P. for Kaipara, was married at Wellington this week to Mies Marjorie Coles, daughter of Dr. Walker Colce, of London. Mr. Joseph Hall, a veteran of the 'Maori War, lias juet •died at T\aita, at the age of 82 yearn. As lieutenant of militia he assisted in the capture of the Maoris who escaped from the hulk in Wellington Harbour. Dr. J. Allen Thomson, who has been to Fiji investigating matters connected •with the origin of the Maori race, «n behalf of the Dominion Museum, of -which he is curator, left for Wellington by ■last night's express. Mr. (H-enrv Robert Alurton, of Hawke's Bay, wlio ilia's just died, -was an 'English wool expert, and aleo an analytical chemist. He -was inventor of Murton's " Champion " sheep-dip. Mrs. Eliza Simpson, who arrived with her parents in Nelson by the »hip Olympus as far back as 1342. <ha« just died. Her father too-k part in the affray at the 'W-airau massacre.