PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

On the occasion of his approaching marriage, Mr. A. W. Bartlett was presented with a handsome marble clock by the employees of James Smith, Ltd. On behalf of "the firm. Mr. Alex. Smith also presented Mr. Bartlett with a cheque. A cablegram received in Christchurch recorded the death of Mr. T. H. Nolan, who was vrelMfcnown in the Dominion as travelling representative of a firm doing business in Australasia. Mr. Nolan was Kicked by a horse art Perth about a week ago, and succumbed to his injuries in the Perth Hospital yesterday. Another old West Coaster passed away last week in the person of Mr. Fred Davis, whose remains were interred in the Karori cemetery on Good Friday. Deceased came from Victoria to the West Coast in the gold rush of 1868, and was closely identified with that part of New Zealand for thirty years. Of late years he had been living in Wellington. He j leaves a grown-up family of two sons and four daughters. The Governor visited Kurow to-day, where he was enthusiastically welcomed by the residents and schoolchildren (states a Press Association telegram). Dr. Stevens presented an address of welcome on behalf of the resident*, and Mr. D. Sutherland, on behalf of the Waitaki County Council. His Excellency visits Oamaru this afternoon, ■where he will be presented with an address of welcome by the Mayor, at a public function, and entertained by the Jlasonic Brotherhood in the evening. The death occurred at Christchurch on Friday at the age of 68 years, of Mr. T. S. Asquith, an early resident of that city and an old and valued servant of the Christchurch Press Company, ho having been in its emplay for over forty years. The late Mr. Asquith joined the staff as ay compositor in the early years of the history of The Press, and, with but a short interval, during which ho took up farming pursuits, but subsequently returned to his former occupation, he rendered excellent service for the lengthy period mentioned. The late Mr. Asquith was for several years printer of the Weekly Press, and at the time of his retirement from active work nearly a year ago on account of failing health, he was printer of the Evening News. The deceased gentleman, who was a tradesman of the old school, leaves a widow and a grown-up family.