PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr G. W. Carrington has been appointed hii:6r clerk in th-j Otago Education Board jJfficc, in succession to Mr J. Miller, wb-> >as joined the service of tho South Canterbury Board. bergtsanc Burrowed, lately stationed at Waikouaiti, has been transferred to Christchtirch. Mr Robert Waugh is to receive a call to the Presbyterian Church.at Tapanui and Waikoikoi on the completion of his theo logical course. v The ceremony of profession and reception took place at St. Dominic's Priory on Tuesday (says the 'Tablet'). Miss Jane M'Namee, of Garston, was professed, taking the name in religion of Sister Mary Aidan. Miss Jane Roche, of Invercargiil (whose name in religion is Sister Marv Agnes), and Miss Maud Collins, o"f Heriot (who took the name in religion of Sister Mary Ursula), were received at the same time.

A veteran and old colonist in the person of John Fulton died at Wellington on Monday. He servedi*rith the Royal Sappers and Miners in the Crimea, and was wounded at the talcing of Redan, at Sevastopol. Ho held the Crimean, medal, with four clasps, and also the Turkish modal. He served with Garibaldi in Italy. The deceased, who was born in Edinburgh in 1854, arrived in Dunedin by the ship Pylades in 1860. He followed his occupation—that of lithographic, printer—np to Saturday last, and left the Government Printing Office, where he has been engaged for a number of vears, apparently in his usual, health, but the same evening he suffered a paralvtio stroke, from which he died without" recovering consciousness. A Sydney message advises the death of Mr James Morton, M.L.C., at tho ago of flighty-one. The deceased legislator" wa« the head of a prominent legal Jinn. A length of public service probably unique is referred to by the Marlborough ' Herald,' whicn records that Mr A. P. Seymour, after forty-six years' service as " a member of the Marlborough !Und Board, will retire after next meeting. Mr !>ovmour at present holds the position of Government surveyor, and this precludes him from serving on the Land Board. Sub-inspector Black was seized -syuh a sudden illness on Mondav nisiit, and at present lies at the Chalet' Hospital, where he is being attended by Dr Gordon Macdon aid.

Sergeant Gecrin, one of the most respected officers in the local police force, goes on three months' leave of absence at the beginning of next month, prior to retiring from the service under the superannuation scheme. He has been in the service for thirty-four year.", almost the whole of which have been spent in Dimedin, and latterly in Port Chalmers. Fp was made a sergeant in 1876, and in 1885 lie joined the detective branch of the service. two years' work in thi-s department he reverted to his former position in the peneral ]>olice. He is described by his chiefs as a most conseiention« and energetic officer. Onr Giaborne :—The clertfh is announced of Mrs - A. ,T. Cameron, who (as Miss Jane B. Maclrio) was well known in educational circle*) in Otago. having been a r-upll-f earlier at Albany street School, and snhwonently head-mistress at Forbury School, Dmiediri.