PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 14788, 1 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Inspector Hugo is in town for .'lis halfyearly inspection, lie inspects the Maori Hill Brigade to-night and the City Brigade iO-IiIOITOW evening. Miss V.. .1. Hare has boon appointed mistress in the St. Bathaus School. At the practice of ihe Dune-din Orchestral .Sncietv, held ln-st evening, Mips Paton, L.A.15., A.T.C.L.. wir pie.scntc<l by Mie. members with a case of toilet requisites on the eve of her departure- to take up dutv as musical instruttivss to the "U'angaiuii Collie. An (hniarti telegram reports that James Craif. veil 'known on the West Coast as the owner of Craig's _ l-'rcehold, and partly of the town of Hokitika. died vesteklav', aged 74 year?. • * Mr Uohei: Blair, of Melbourne, died at Ailrklend ve<4erctov. He was for many •■•->-u-s Auckland manager of the Kauri Timber Company. Afterwards ho went into business on "his own account as a timber merchant in Melbourne I" years past lie was a prominent criekctt-r. Brigadier Jago, who has arrived here from °Svdney to take charge of this district, will be given a reception at the Salvation Annv Barracks to-night. Brigadier Jago is" an oilicer of 27 years' standing, and lias been engaged in the social work of the Army for the past .seven years

Among Ihe 24 drowned on 4th instant by the foundering of the s.s. Tathra, on charter from Sydney mid trading in the New Hebrides, 'was' Mr James l r re Russell, marine engineer. The late Mr Russell, who was the oldest son of the late Captain James L're Russell, formerly of Southland and this City, was 45 years old at the time of his death, and leaves a widow and five, children. For some years Mr Russell served us engineer in the t.'nion Company, and was well known in Dunedin shipping circles. Tiring of the sea. he took up gold dredging in Ofago, and later engaging in the same work on the Cold Coast. West Africa. Thence, after a stay in the Old Country, Mr Russell proceeded to Australia, intending to settle pi Sydney. Joining the engineroom staff of tlie Tathra, he sailed on what has proved his last voyage. The Russell family, now dispersed, were old residents of biniedin. Mr Murray Russell, brother of the late engineer, who graduated at the Otago School of Mines, is Inspector of Mines in the service of the Queensland Government. A Tendon cable ndv.Ves the death of Florence St. John, aetros.s Mr James J. Taino, who reached his 95th. birthday on .Sunday, arrived in Wellington in 1.840, and li:! 6 completed 72 years' a<lult residence in Xew Zealand. It is, perhaps, this fact that makes Mv Taine and his friend and rival in ago and residence (Sir John Campbell) two of our most interesting New Zealand citizens. The Grand Old Man of Auckland is a few months Mr T.iinc's pernor, but Mr Taine has slightly the. longer residence in New Zealand. Contemporaneous witu Ifis arrival was thai of his future wife, '.. he adopted daughter of Mr E. G. Wakefield j Miss Leocadia Do Olivora, a'native) of Lisbon), and almost immediately following their lauding was celebrated the marriage—the first white marriage in "Wellington. The clergyman was the Rev. F. J. Courton, of St. Paul's, Wellington, and the temporary edifice in which the ceremony took place was a small wooden building. Dr Evans, a director of the New Zealand Company, and the lady's guardian, gave- her away. Colonel Ivin Wakefield was best man, and Lady Strode (nee Miss Riddiford) was one of the bridesmaids. Mrs Taine happily lived to a groat age. She passed away a. few years back. Mr Taino is new a resident of Wellington, and is a hale and hearty nonagenarian. Two of Ilia sons belong in Dunedin—■Mr Walter Taine (manager of Tuino's chemical stores) ami Mr Arthur Taine (cashier for the City Corporation).