PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. W. F. Massey will leave Wellington on January 9, and spend about a fortnight in touring the North Auckland Taupe, and Hauraki Plains districts. The Hon. A L. Herd in am arrived in Invercargill on Saturday, and visited Bluff yesterday. Mr H. C. Rogers, inspector for the State Fire Insurance Department, has taken over the managership ot the Slate Fire Office in Canterbury, in place of Mr Wilkinson, resigned. Y • Capper, cliief postmaster at Tiniaru, will retire on pension at the end of the month, after nearly 42 years’ service. At the office of Messrs T. E. Shiel and Co., Miss Ren/., on the occasion of her approaching marriage, was presented hv the employees with a catestand. Mr Gerrie made the presentation, and Mr Bohm replied on behalf of Miss Renz. Miss Renz was also the recipient of a cheque from the firm, and the fruiterers engaged in the retail business likewise presented her with a cheque. Miss Elsie Black, of the well-known Black Family Musicians .is a member of the orchestra of the “ Nightbirds ’ Comic Opera Company, now at Auckland. Mr C. 11. Brebner, last year’s golf champion of Southland, left Invercargill yesterday for Paparoa, Auckland, where he will occupy the position of assistant county engineer. A cable message from London states that Miss Maud Hobson, the actress, is dead. .She was a member of the R. J. Lonneu Gaiety Company, which visited Australasia iu the early nineties of last century. Mr W. M. Tyeis has retired from the Land and Income Tax Department, and commences practice as a public accountant in Christchurch.

A Melbourne cable advises that Mr Douglas Archibald, the English meteorologist, has left for Rotorua on a health trip.

Mrs Margaret Todd, whose death took place at Owaka on (he 51st ult., arrived at Port Chalmers by the Maori in 1851. Her maiden name was Margaret Shand. She was a native of Aberdeen, and a year later she was married at East Taieri to Mr Charles lodd, and they took up farming._ Her husband died 47 years ago, Laving her with a family of six. Mrs Todd and family removed to Lovell Flat, and in 1878 to Owaka, where she remained till her death.