PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Justice Cooper is returning to Dunedin by the second express to-night, after silling at Hokitika and Wellington. Mr David Larnach, president of the Otago United Friendly Societies’ Council, has been appointed as representative of that body at the Conference of Friendly Societies, to be held at Wellington in Mav next Mr W. Gibb.-D.P., No. 19 District, U.A.0.D., will represent that district at the same Conference. The Tima.ru critics are speaking highly of Mr Irwin Moore's organ playing at a recent recital at Chalmers Church, Timaru,' and the same gentleman is said to have met with snccess in his production of Gaul’s cantata ‘The Holy City.’ Mr Wilfred White, who for some years has been on the Timaru stuff of the Bank of New South Wales, latterly as accountant, has been promoted to the staff of the bank at Dunedin. Mr White, who is an. enthusiatic tennis player and angler, will be very much missed, says a local paper, by tho Timaru Tenuis Club, of which he is a foundation member, Mr A. R. Guinness, M.H.R., Speaker of tho House of Representatives, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Ho is accompanied by Mrs Guinness. Mr John Simpson, who has resigned his position aa manager of the Bruce Woollen Mills in order to take up the position of manager of the Onehunga Woollen Mills, was presented by the employees of the former works with a marble clock. A Sydney cable records the death of Mrs E. D. Hoben, wife of tho associate editor of the Sydney ‘ Mail.’ The deceased lady, who leaves a largo family, was a native of Wellington. Mr Hoben was the organiser of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Inspector W. P. Sellerfield, who arrived at the Bluff by the Wimmera yesterday, is in charge of the -Metropolitan Police ar Perth. Western Australia. He is on a holiday tour through tho Australian Stales and New Zealand, and, combining business with pleasure, he is .taking nrtfee of the jx.lico methods adopted in each for the in formation of his department. Mr B. Stevens, who has been a member of St, Joseph’s Choir during the last eight years, was the recipient of a travelling rug on tho occasion of ■ his leaving for Christchurch. Mr Carotin, who made the presentation, spoke highly of Mr Stevens’s services to the choir, and expressed their regret at parting with him. Mr Bush, the new city engineer of Auckland, has been for over two years in his present position in Sudbury, and previously for three years ho was district surveyor at Birmingham, while be has been, actively engaged in his profession for fifteen years, and is stall a young man. He holds tho diploma of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Royal Sanitary Institute, and Association of Municipal and County Engineers. At the Building Trades’ Exhibition in London in 1901 he was awarded first premium for a thesis on ‘ The Manufacture and Testing of Portland Cement,’ and he claims exceptional experience in designing and construction of public works, such aa roadmaldng, bridges, culverts, eta, various footpaths, main sewerage, and sewerage disposal works, refuse destructor and power plants and cellection of hcrae refuse and nightsoil, bring out of parks, gardens, etc., waterworks, including construction, of reservoirs, aqueducts, pumping machinery, etc., public buildings,.including model lodg-ing-houses, houses for the working dais, markets, abattoirs; hospitals, police and fixe stations, municipal offices, etc., and electric tramways. After sorting four years artides with Mr W. H. Hope, C.E., of the Kingston Rural and Hampton Wink Urban District Councils, Mr ■“ Bush went for eighteen months to tho position of assistant engineer. South all-Norwood and Bromley (Kent) Urban District Councils. Then ha was for eighteen months' resident engineer Orpington and Crofton (Kent) main seweragp works, two years engineer and manager for B. Cooke and Co., contractors. of London, having 200 to 500 men under, his control on waterworks, flood prevention, and sewerage mid sea defence works; .and six;,and a-half years with.the Corporation of Birmingham and Sudbury. He completed the main sewerage, sewerage disposal and refuse destructor works at Sudbuty, earning the special thanks of the Council and the award of a , substantial honorarium. . , . Air Robert Strilthefs, formerly head of the firm of Messrs Masim and Strothers, died afc ChiistriiarcK'to-d'^y;,