PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12843, 19 June 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr H. J. Tizard, the recently-appointed assistant medical officer for the mental hospitals of the colony, arrived at Wellington from London yesterday by the AthemC. Mr T. R. Saywell, Public Trustees Agent at Greymouth, has boen promoted to the charge of the branch of tho Public Trust Office just opened at Wanganui. Ho has been succeeded at Greymouth by Mr J. E. Allen, until recently chief clerk m the Dunedin office, whose place there has been taken by Mr K. H. N- Browne, for eome time past cashier at-the head office in Wellington. - An old Wellington resident passed peacefully away yesterday forenoon in the person of Mrs Sarah Barnard, reHct of William Hooper Barnard, formerly of H.H. Customs. The deceased lady, with her husband, arrived in Port Nicholson on February X, 1557, in the ship Indian Queen, and with the exception of a few years spent in Carterton has resided in Wellington ever since. Sho leaves a family of four sons —Messrs Fred and Henry Barnard (of Elthaml, George Barnard (of Wellington), and Charles L. Barnard (of Foxton)—and three daughters — Mrs D. Billman (of Wellington), Mis AClark (of Lawrence), and Mrs Brigadier Fisher (of Melbourne). Included in her descendants are eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.—Own correspondent.

Dr William Brown, Mayor of Tanranga, formerly a well-known Dunedin medico, has disposed of his practice at Tauranga, and will leave next month for Scotland. He- is to be entertained to a public dinner at Tauranga before his departure. Mr R. Peattie does not intend to seek election as a member of the Otago Education Board, on account of his health. Mr 'Charles King, conductor of the Milton Brass Band since the band’s inception in 1887, has handed in his resignation. It is understood that Mr James Haig, of Milton, will be asked to accept the position. On the day of Mr Seddon’s death Mr W. H. Croker, barrister and solicitor, Melbourne, received a letter from Mr Seddon, thanking him for his courtesy and services during Mr Seddon’s visit to that city, and, on behalf- of the colony, offering him a general retainer as counsel and solicitor to represent New Zealand in Victoria. The Rev. J. MWilliam, who recently retired from tho position of Anglican missionary at Otoki, where he had labored for thirty-seven years, has been granted a pension of £IOO a year. On Friday evening last the choir of Holy Trinity Chgrch, Port Chalmers, .met in the schoolroom- to make a presentation to Mrs Chas. De Loncrqevilla Graham mid Miss Amy De Longneyillo Graham, who are leaving the Port after many years of residence there. The vicar (the Rev. Mr Christ'an), in presenting each of these ladies with a handsomely bound copy of the Prayer Book and Hymn* A. and M-, expressed the general regret. «f die Church people at their departure, and tho ocmgregottftn’s high appreciation pf the valuable services, for upwards of thirty years, of Mrs Graham and her family to the chnrch and the choir. Mr Donald Borrie has so far recovered as to be able to attend-to his jrabßo duties. He sot at the School Commissioners’ meet> ing to-day. "i he late Ewen MPberson MT.achlan, of Owoka, whose body was found on, the railway, was one of the first white men to set foot in the North Island. Ho had been about seventy years in the colony. ’