PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 15223, 30 June 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

♦._ Mr J. 1). Woodford, secretary of tho Wellington Chess Club, and formerly of CUristehurch. who was well known among chess men of New Zealand, died, in the Wellington Hospital on Saturday evening as tho" result of an attack of pneumonia. He was hon. treasurer of the Christ-church Exhibition Chess Congress. Mr .1. Evans. Official Assignee for the Canterbury district, resigns from tho position at tho cud of tho present month. Mr Evans lias been for over 35 years in the service of the Government. He_ was for about hve years in the office of tho Receiver of Land Revenue in Invercargill, which position ho left to go to Christchurch on the coming into operation of the present Bankruptcy Act. London advises that Air Harinan, founder of a well-known Photographic Company, left a fortune of £333,739. He had bequeathed £50.000 to charities. Mr Alfred Clayton, aged 54, died some- | what, unexpectedly at Rotorua last week. The dece.tsec] was a purveyor by profession, i and had lived in Rotorua ISr the last 25 years. He was a man of exceptionally fine physique, and an athlete in hi 6 younger days. Old residents (Fays the Auckland 'Star') will not forget his great match against. Mr W. Duncan, when the two ran a race, the ciistanro being from Rotorua to Tauranga, 42 miles. Through under-esti-mating his opponent, Mr Clayton . was beaten in his run to tlie post, but his offer to turn round and run back there and then was not accepted. The deceased gentleman was a. nephew of tho late Sir Julius Yog-el, a former Premier of Xew Zealand. Mr John Hamnr, who has been manager of the Princess Theatre sinco it lias been used for picture-show purposes, has received notice of bis promotion to Melbourne, where he will take charge of tho Brennan-Fuller theatres. Mr Hamer will leave* Dunedin by the Maunganui on Sunday next. Mr Barrington Waters, at present Tn c:haii;i; of tho Kind's Theatre, will he promoted to tin; management <;f the Princess.