PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr £!. Holdsworth. general manager of tir-Q Union Steam Ship . Company, left for Sydney by the Moerakil to-day. Mp Frank Ap.drews, sop of Mr J. Andrews (private secretary to the. Jate Premier), has been transferred from the New Zealand locomotive department to the sta-tion-master's office at Dunedin. Ex-Sergeant Fleming, who has retired from the Police Force after thirty-three years' service, was presented with a puree of sovereigns at Queenstown last week. ' Mr James Rattray, a native of Baldutha, a widely-known staff officer since the inception of the Salvation Army in New Zealand twenty -three years ago, and who for the past twelve years ■ has been engaged in the ■Army’s operations in all parts of the Commonwealth, has resigned his commission, apd returned to New Zealand. Mr Rattray has been engaged by. the New Zealand Allian.ce for special work in Auckland and district in connection with the No-lioepre campaign. Mr A. A Hair, cleric of the court at Queenstown, has received notice of his removal to Christchurch, wh ere he will take Up the duties of second clerk in the Magistrate’s Court. Mr A. J. Thomson, of Dunedin, will succeed Mr Mair at Queenstown. Mr James Norrie, of Lawrences fills the vacancy here. Constables M'Pfiee, erf Te Awanaitu, and Lowry, of Deyonport (Auckland), have been to the rank of sergeant. Constable 'Wild, of Te Alpha. i§ retiring on a pension. Sergeant Black, of Auckland, has been transferred to Invercargill. His Excellency the Governor was prer septed Wfth an address of Masonic welcome this morning, and this afternoon he made an inspection of the hospital. This evenin'’’ he will attend Mr Burton’s lecture, and tomorrow morning he will return North. Cur Qamani correspondent wines that Mr C. llawlinsen, of Pnrakanni, and Mr A. Davidson, of Lower Harbor, have beep selected by the Ngapara School Committee for the vacant .head-mastership. Onr correspondent informs ns that the Rev. William. Dawson, of the Lawrence Wesleyan Church, whose death was briefly referred to in last night’s issue of the ‘ Star,’ had been jn charge of the Lawrence circuit for oyer two years. His healthbM be en very indifferent fqr the last twelve months, and a few months ago he was induced fo take » rest, Mr Dawson, who spent some time at the Otago University, wap a man of ■wide reading and deep culture, apd the possessor of pulpit gifts the average. He was pf a very kipdly, charitable disposition, fired with intense Jove for the work in which he was engaged. Mr A. C. Begg has left for a trip to the North IMand, and expects to be absent for six weeks.

A private cable received this afternoon reports filie death in Melbourne of Mr L. Solomon, for many years a resident pf that pity, and formerly ip tjie music business in George street, Duue«diu. His daughter, Miss G. Bplompp, is living fferel ’ Mrs Godfrey Jacobs, mother of Mr J. Jacobs, t rn clerk’s staff, is a sister-in-law of the deceased, and is now on a visit to Melbourne. Heart trouble wps the immediate cause of death.