PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 10340, 14 June 1897, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Graham, M.H.R. for Nelson, who, it will be remembered, was chairman of the House's Bauking Committee, is spending a few days in Dunedin.

Mr E. Cohen (who was a member of the Dunedin Exhibition orchestra, and more latterly served with Barraud and Son, of Wellington) has passed at Gray's College the second examination of the Royal College of Surgeons. Miss L. Cameron, of the Lawrence High School, appointed mistress of the Salisbury rotd (Taranaki) School. Mr William Todd has returned to Invercargill. Mr George Slater ("Gipsy King"), formerly relieving station-master in the Railway Department, but more recently turf writer, was removed to the Palmerston Hospital last week, where he lies in a precarious Btate. Mr John Kevin presented with a purse of sovereigns by the employes on the Southland section of the railways on his promotion to a northern district.

At the Roslyn Woollen Mills last Friday Miss M. Maekie, who is leaving to get married 1 , was presented by her fellowemployx'3 with a very pretty tea set. Mr Sharp, in a few well-chosen words, made the presentation to Misß Maekie, and Mr A. Dobson replied. Mr .T. W. Coughlan, of Clinton, who is about to settle in the Auckland district, was entertained at a social last week in recognition of his services as chairman of the local Town Board and School Committee. He has been bought out by Mr R. Irving, jun., of Waiwera.

The late Mr C. Duncan, who for many years occupied an important position in the employ of Messrs A. and T. "Burt, arrived in Dunedin in 1863 by the Aparima. During his long residence in this City he saw many changes, and when the gold rush set in to Hokitika he visited the various fields on the West Coast. He also tried hiß luck with varying success on the Dunstan. Returning to Dunedin in the early seventies he was employed by Burt and Co., and for them laid the mains and pipes for Reefton's water supply, for the Tapanni water supply, for the Outram water supply, fitted up and laid the mains for Westport gasworks, fitted up the Port Chalmers gasholder, laid the principal portion of the mains through this City, and laid the water main through the Caversham railway tunnel. He leaves a wife and family to mourn his loss.