PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12883, 4 August 1906, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr M'Ara, of Gore, at one time very well known in Dunedin football circles, left here yesterday for a two-months' sojourn in the North for recuperative purposes. Mr T. Dunn, of the Ashburton 'Mail' and 'Guardian,' has bsen appointed assist-ant'sub-editor on the Christchurch ' Press.' A Wellington message says that Mr Riddell, S.M., of Dunedin, is to act as stipendiary magistrate at Wellington during the time Dr M'Arthur, 8.M., is acting as chairman Of the Royal Commission set up to inquire into the fires of wool cargoes on shipboard. Mr K. Douglas, of Hastings, has been appointed secretary of the Jtiastirgs Di-trict A. aUd P. Society, vice Mr J. H. Munro, resigned. A Wellington telegram says: "a he dentil of Mr George Martin, one of the oldest employees in the Post and Telegraph Department in New Zealand, is announced. He entered the service of the Government as a telegraph messenger nearly thirtyseven years ago, and has resided in Wellington ever since. For very many years he hvd heen counter clerk in the public office at Wellington, where ho generallv had charge of the letters for counter delivery. Mr Martin was very well known in yachting circles, in which he had the reputation of being one of the most capable men who handled a tiller. The deceased, who was fifty-nino years of age, succumbed to an internal complaint." Mr Devlin, M.P., and Mr Donovan, the Irish Home Rule envoys to Australia and New Zealand, addressed a crowded and enthusiastic meeting in the Sydney Town Hall last night, when resolutions in favor of Home Rule were carried. A London message- says that Lord Tennyson has been elected president of the Empire League. Mr P. H. Hart, for eleven vears editor of the ' Mataura Ensign,'* has" joined the literary staff of the* Christchurch ' Press.' A Feilding message says:—Mr Fred Pirani, one of the proprietors of the Feilding 'Star,' was presented with a purse of sovereigns at Palmerston North yesterday in recognition of his services to the district.