PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr A. H. Williamson, of Heriot, has been recommended by the Roxburgh School Committee for the position of head master ; the Maheno School Commitee resolved that Mies Isabella T. Currie, at present sole teacher at Kaihiku, be recommended for appointment as second assistant; and at a meeting of the Kaitangata School Committee it was decided to recommend Mr W. H. Spears for appointment as second assistant master at the school, 'n pli.ce of Mr Lyttle (promoted to first assistant at Gore).

Mr R. H. Stott, who for the past five years has been on the Invercargill staff of the National Bank, has been transferred to Dunedin, and leaves for his new sphere shortly. The Rev. G. Fynes-Clinton, vicar at Anderson Bay, has been appointed to the charge of the parochial district of Gladstone (Invercargill), which has become vacant owing to the appointment of the Rev. P. T. Jones as %dcar of Leeston (Canterbury). A London message advises that the Duke of Argyll ie suffering from double pneumonia, and that his condition is grave. The Duke caught a chill at East Cowes on Friday. The Duchess was summoned yesterday. The condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph has improved. Cr Beeby handed in his resignation as a member of the Maori Hill Borough Council as soon as :0 was announced last evening that Mr E. S. Clarke had been elected Mayor. Ibe death occurred yesterday of Miss Isabella Rennie Hay, who for many years was a teacher under the Otago Education Board. Prior to entering the service of the board, Miss Hay had been a teacher for 22 years. She entered the service of the board in 1865, and in 1866 was appointed mistress of the Union Street School She left the board's employ in September, 1880, but re-entered the service in May, 1883, as mistress of the Forbury School, and finally resigned from that position in April, 1885. Miss Hay was a woman of most kindly disposition, and no doubt many of our present citizens —her old pupils 'at Union Street and Forbury Schools —will have pleasant memories of her and regret her decease. Sir Charles Des Voeux, who aitd in England last month, was a brother of the late Sir William Des Voeus, formerly Governor of Fiji. He was in New Zealand for some years as private secretary to Sir George Grey, and he Taised and commanded a troop of horse during the Maori War. When Sir Charles was at Woolwich he was selected for a commission in the corps d'elite of the Emperor of Austria, and he served with distinction with the Radetzki Hussars in the campaign of Northern Italy. He danced in the Slate quadrille at the first ball held by the present Emperor of Austria after his accession in 1848.

Mr James Palmer, the proprietor of the Logan'6 Point quarry, died at his home at Ravensboitrne yesterday, aged 79. He arrived in New Zealand in 1855, and opened up a large estate on the Ruatanawha Plains, in the North Island, and was for some years engaged in managing it. Mr Palmer then came to Dunedin, and after spending about 12 months on the Tuapeka diggings he was appointed manager of the Otago Foundry, of which he subsequently -became proprietor, and for several years he conducted the foundry and the quarry. In the early eighties, however, he disposed of the foundry and devoted his attention exclusively to the management of the quarry For some time Mr Palmer was a member of the West Harbor Borough Council.