PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 12874, 25 July 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Government 1 have approved of the appointment of Mr G. Farfield, of Petone, as electrical instructor at the Thames School of Mines at a salary of £2OO per annum. Mr Farfield is on tne staff of the railway workshops at Petone, and in charge of the electrical engineering clam at the Petone Technical School The Rev. J. M'Cosh Smith, M.A., 8.D., Naseby, having been granted two months' leave of absence, the services in the Mount Ida Presbyterian Church are being conducted by Mr Herbert Brown, divinity student, Dunedin. Mr J. M'Ennis, S.M. and warden, Nnseby, is at present on six weeks’ leave, and the court fixtures for his district are being held by Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M. The Wakari Association Football Club last night farewelled Mr A, R. Faiqhharson, captain of the club and this year's Rhodes scholar, and presented him with a dressing case. Miss A- J- Simpson, of Rockyside, Cavereham, has been appointed assistant matron at the Wellington Terraco Gaol, and will be leaving Dunedin on Saturday next. A memorial service in honor of the late Sir Walter Buller will be held in the St. Michael and St. George Chapel of SL Paul’s Cathedral, London, on Thursday. Mr H. C. Watson, a cricketer from Lancashire, who arrived in the colony last year, has been appointed caretaker of the Carisbrook Ground.

A Wanganui telegram says:—On© of Now Zealand’s oldest settlers died last evening in Wanganui in the person of Frederick Richard Barkes, in his seventysixth year. Deceased landed with his father and family in Wellington in Janu3, 1840. Tliey were some of Colo- _ Wakefield’s first settlers, who bought their land at Horae. The deceased was on guard in the militia corps at the time of the execution of the Gilfillan murderers in 1847, and was captain of the Wanganui Cavalry for many years. Mr G. W. Woods, president of the New Zealand Athletic Union, left Invercargill on Monday on an organising tour through the North Island. Ho purposes addressing meetings at Waipawa (Napier), Wanganui, Peilding, Hawera, Auckland, and Thames in the interests of the Athletic Union. The Hon W. Hall-Jones left for Christchurch by the first express this morning The blinds are drawn dose at No. 145 George street, tho respected occupier, Mr George Horder, having passed away yesterday afternoon. He nad been in failing health for a couple of years, but was not critically ill till about a fortnight ago. Most of our citizens will well remember Mr Horder. He was a Winchester man, and went out to the Victorian diggings in the fifties, working at Bendigo. Ho came to Otago in time to secure a claim at Gabriel’s _ Gully, and when Dunedin grewto be a city of consequence he settled ft-ie, becoming the pioneer newspaper runner of Dunedin under an arrangement with Mr Henningham by which lie had control of the ‘ Evening Star ’ issue. Ho also worked a ‘ Daily Times ’ rim, and for years was one of the busiest men in town. In Ins later period he became a house and commission agent. He was a straightforward and kind-hearted man, a good father, and an excellent citizen, and his death is sincerely mourned by, a large circle of acquaintances, Ho had reached his seventyfifth vear.

Miss Bcclnngsale, of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society, who is home on furlough, has been visiting tin Baptist churches and Sunday schools in tho North for the past few months, and returns to her home m this City next week. She will visit the churches and schools of the city and suburbs during her stay here, beginmng with tho Hanover street Sunday School on the first Sunday in August. She will also address the Women’s Missionary Union there on the following Wednesday afternoon and a public meeting' on Thursday, the 9th prox. Miss Beddngsalo has had long experience of medical and missionary m ork in Bengal, and tells her story well with touches of pathos and humor, which sustain the interest of her hearers She hopes to resume her missionary labor? in India at the end of the vear.

Steps are being taken by the resided of lorfc Chalmers to present Sergeant Gcerm with some tangible token of their esteem for the many services rendered by' him to the community during his l OD e service, which terminates at the eod of the present month.

„ £’ ir Lawrence correspondent wires nihe Rev. William Dawson, who had charge of the Wesleyan Chnrch here for over two years and who has lately been m delicate health, died at Christchurch this morning.