PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 14548, 24 April 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr I>. Milligan. chairman of the Oamaru Harbor Roaid, was on Saturday presented with a purse of 100 sovereigns, ;i gold watch, and a framed illuminated address for the pood work he- had done in connection with the consolidation of lhe Hoard's loan;-. The Hon. T. V. Duncan occupied the chair, and tiie hall war, crowded. The speeches were, very complimentary to the recipient for the trouble he had' taken in bringing to a successful issue a. satisfactory scheme. The Governor-General of the Commonwealth (Lord Dudley) stales that home ties and private interests are the causes of his resignation, and not friction with the Labor Government. A London message advises that Lord Linsdosviie's recovery is retarded by a severe cold. Lord Northeote fa former GovernorGeneral of Australia) is seriously indisposed, .Mr Richard Kiliani is gazetted German Consul-General of the Commonwealth, New Zealand, and the Parifio Tsles. A London message advises that Lord Onslow is making favorable progress. A Wellington P.A. message states that Mr Charles C. Robertson, who was connected with tho Post and Telegraph Department f-ince. 1G67, died at Wellington yesterday, aged sixty-two years. For two years brfore his he w:k in charge of the Telegraph Engineers' Department, Wellington. ' Previously he was Inspector of Telegraph.; jit Nelson, and before that officer in charge of the Wellington Telegraph Office. Dr Sydney Cook, of Fairlie, died at one o'clock "to-day (says a Timaru P.A. wirej. He had been" very ill for some days. Ifo was a son of a lato chief postmaster at Timaru. Deceased's wife and sister are dangerously ill of tvphoid fever. The death of Mr William Dudgeon Hanlon, announced in this issue, was not unexpected. Ho bad been lying ill. critically ill, for many days, almost wholly unconscious. The" people remember him well by his connection with the police. Sergeant Hanlon was reckoned a good officer, and he had responsible work when in charge at Po;t Chalmers. Ho was a.lrso known as the father of one of the most brilliant, criminal lawyers in Australasia, Mr Alfred Hanlon. The. deceased was respected, tor>._ for his personal worth, and when after his retirement- from tho service the Government made him a Justice of the Peace everybody felt sere that it was a worthy appointment.