ABOUT PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1913, Page 3

ABOUT PEOPLE

NOTES FROM LONDON. , (From Our O\vii Correspondent.) LONDON, 3rd January. Mr. Joseph Gould, of Cadogan-place, Chelsea, who died on 22nd October, left estate of the gross value of £112,333, of which £105,201 is net personalty. He gave £4000 upon trust for the purchase of an annuity for the benefit of his sister, Lydia Otterson, directing that this an' niiity ' shall be expended for her additional personal comfort, and shall not be sa.ved or hoarded, and that his trustees shall- require a declaration before each half-yearly payment that the previous payment has been so expended. iIIOOO to his station manager and friend, John Dunnett, late, of Sherwood Downs, Fairlie, New Zaland, "in recognition of many years', devoted service, for which I tender to him my best thanks." £1000 to his sister, Gertrude Macdonald, for the purchase of jewels and pictures when she shall next come to England. £8500 to the trustees of- the marriage settlement of hie sister, Jessie Bowden ; and £1000 to his half-sister, Mabel Sannen. The residue goes to his wife for life, and then £2500 is to be paid to his niece, Etta Bradshaw ; £7500 to his nephew, I Victor Bradshaw ; £2500 to his nephew, Ronald Asher; and £7500 4 to his niece, Evelyn .Asher, and the ultimate residue as to two-sevenths in trust for his sister, Jessie Bowden, and her issue, twosevenths in trust for his sister, Annie Sinclair Thompson, and her issue, and three-sevenths for the children of his deceased brother, Charles Gould. The Public Trustee is made • executor of the will, which is dated 27th April, 1912. Sir Thomas Borthwick, first baronet (who was raised to the peerage as- Baron Whitburgh, but died without taking his seafc in the House of Lords), of Whitburgh House, Dalkeith, Midlothian, chairman of Thomas Borthwick and Sons, who .died on the 31st July last at the age of 77 years, left, in addition to real estate, personal estate in the United Kingdom, . valued at £320,669, of which his interests " in, Thomas' Borthwick and sons are "valued for probate at £309,478. Mr. J. Curran, the Auckland footballer, has been signedon for Wigan. He plays either centre-three-quarter or outside half -back, and is expected to make great name in Northern Union football.'- He landed in England on Friday evening with -a free transfer in his pocket from the New Zealand .Jjeagiie. He ' was ( met -by 4 th6 • Wigan representatives and signed, on at once. No details of the terms are given, but it is stated 'that he 'had secured the best terms ever given by • Wigan for an oversea player. Curran has signed tot three 'and a half seasons—until April,' 1916. , . ' .Mr. Edward .Tyer, inventor of the system of block-signalling, died at his Surrey horne t on Christmas Eve at the advanced age of 82. ' l£ was in 1878 that he took out a patent "for an improved system of electoral control for railway ■signals, which came to be distinctively 'known as the tablet system, and has been. very widely adopted, both. in New Zealand and, in. other countries. Tyer may also be said to be the father of the "telegraph service, .and he was also interested in astronomy. * Lord Cowdray is chairman iof the committed which is . arranging for the International Road Congress to be held in. London this June. New Zealand is stated to be sending ah official delegate who will sit with' the representatives of • practically every Government'in the world.' " Miss 'Rosina - Blickman ' te' ftiifging a good,. deal in < London, and her winter engagements include appearances at the Sunday concerts given at th'<s Coliseum, tho Alharabra, and'thn Palladium. In the coming summer, Mr. John M'Cormack'is going out for an Australian tour, and Miss Buckman will ' be. one of the members 'of "his company. iThe New Zealand .friends of Bishop Neligan.wall be very glad to hear, that he' is now quite definitely recovering his health. . Occasionally the doctorr let him "off the leash," and they promise him his full freedom by the summer. Tho diagnosis of the Bishop's doctors when he was in Auckland 's being verified in ' fact. ,As ' Rector of Ford, in Northumberland, Bishop Neligan is able to lead a less strenuous life —strangely peaceable to. a man who was very active _as vicar in an important , London parish before ho went out to New Zealand. .Rest, too, is required by Mrs. N Neligaii, .whose health is* not too robust, rbut tlie aioctors hope that in six • months' time she, also, will '-be quite strong again. •During the' year just concluded, no ffewer than 1849 new^ members were elected by the .Royal Colonial Institute, against 834 during 1911. At the last' meeting of the council, held 1 on the last "day of the year, the following New Zeajauders . were elected : — Mr John Conolly, Mr. Robert S. Florence, Mr. G. , S. Goldsbrough,, Mr. Charles F. J. Goulter, Mr. William E. Redman, Mr. A. A. Stichbury, Mr. Robert R. Taylor, Mr. Bernard R. Ward. Ten ladies became Associates, including the Marchioness of Lansdowne, th^ Marchioness of Salisbury, the Countess ! of Dudley, - Lady Puller, Lady Moyra Cavendish. Mr. H. Clay (Wellington) thinks oi leaving next month for New Zealand. He has been in South America for twelve months, and lately has been on a visit -to i Ireland. The Arawa. yesterday took out among her passengers several who are going to New Zealand to fill important positions. Tho Rev. H. Johnson is the lately-chostti tJaetor of Trinity Congregational ' Church, Christchurch, Mr. B. Matthews is the new classical mastef of Chfist'^s College, and Miss I: Howlett .goes to Otekaike to be at» tached to the staff at the institution for mentally deficient children. After the customary lull about Christmas time in the 'number of callers ,at the New Zealand Government Office, .the list is beginning to lengthen again. This week the following names have been entered in the book : — Mrs. H. Ryder, Mr. 'H. Moody (Canterbury), Captain R. 0. Chesney and Mrs. Chesney (Wellington), Mr. A. B. Whyte (Auckland), Mr. J. Lewis (Auckland), Mr. J. Maitland Jones (Dunedin), Miss Brandon (Wellington), Lieutenant L. H. Gribben (Wellington). Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Tozer (Wanganui), Mr. Ormsby R. Banres (Christchurch), Mr. J. Douglas Hamilton. -of Fochabcrs, Scotland, Mr. "D. Latimer ■ (Auckland), Miss Coughtrey (Dunedin). / A QUEENSLAND EDITOR'S LETTF.R The editor of the Cunnamulla " Watchman," Mr. J. R. Tindale. writes us as follows: "I have been living 1 in the S.W. district of Queensland for the last thirteen years, and for nine and ahalf years was editor of , the Thargomindah Herald. During that time I have been subject to attacks of dianhoea and have been in the habit of taking Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, which has always -given great relief and quickly cured me. '—Advt.

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