PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Hons. R. M'Kenzie and James ,Carroll arrived! in Napier from Wafroa by steamer on Saturday 'night.—Press Association.

Mr. Justice Chapman left for Lyttelton on Saturday , night in the Mararoa.'

Dri Champtaloup, the young Auc-k----lander who has been appointed to take charge "of the Public Health Department in Dunedin district, and to act as lecturer oh bacteriology and publio h«lth at Otago University, is. now on his way from England, and will take up his duties on May 1. . , ,

A very high musical honour has been won by Miss Aimee Champion, a Dunedin girl. Word was reoeived on Friday by Dr. Ogston, honorary representative ofvthe' Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, that Miss Champion has been awarded an exhibition,' comprising a free course of tuition for at least two years, at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Miss Champion is a pianoforte student. Mr. Arthur Isaacs, of St. Clair; has gained tho Sterndale Bennett prize for pianoplaying, worth £35 a year for two years, at the Royal Academy.

• The death occurred suddenly at Masterton yesterday of Mrs. Emma ' Cochrane, wife of Mr. James W. Cochrane, the well-known land and estate agent, and a sister of . Mr. G. H. Cullen, so-, licitor of Masterton.,. Deceased was 38 years of. ago.

Mr. Philip Best, chairman of the Waimea County Council, has been suggested as. a' suitable successor to the late Hon! F. Trask as a representative of Nelson in the Legislative Council.

Mr. James Shaldrick, locd manager for'tho Northern S.S. Co. atOneh'unga, completed 30 years' service under., that company last Monday. •

Mr. Thomas Roper, another 'of Auckland's .early settlers, died at his son's • rspjdensq; at ( ,N^aruaw-aj}ia. on WednesDeceased was bonrat Darlington, England] ,in 1825. _He camo to Nevr .Zealand in , tho "Annie :'Wilson : in .1861,'' and took up his 'residence in' Auckland. During,the Maori/wars deceased fought with' the Forest Rangers, under Major Von T e mpsky. Deceased leaves 1 two sons to mourn' their' loss—Mr. ' Gibson Roper (of the Waingaro Coaching Company, Ngaruawahia), and . Mr. Thomas Roper (settler, Ngaruawahia);