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Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

Constable Lopdell, of Queenstown, is being transferred. He will take charge cf the sub-district at New Brighton, Christchurch. Mr F. T\ Water,;, assistant secretary, will act as head of the Post and Telegraph Department during the absence of the secretary (Mr W. R." Morris) at the International Postal Congress at' Madrid Morris will leave.for Madrid early next month.

Th© publishing staff of the 'Lyttelton Times' presented Mr S. Saunders (the retiring editor) with a purse of sovereigns for purchase of a gift to keep the staff in mind. The presentation Krom the< journalists of Canterbury took the form of an oak canteen containing a set of solid silver table ware.

Mr Wjii. Joseph Hall died this morning at his residence in Michie street, Roslyn, aged 82 years. The deceased gentleman was the second son' of Dr TV. J. Hall, of Leeds, and was born at Easingwold, England, and educated at the Dominican and Stonyhivrot Cdllegea. He camo to New Zealand in 1863, and engaged in commerce until he entjered the office of the registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, attaining' the post of Registrar in 1888, and holding it until his retirement in 1902. In 1863 he married the eldest, daughter of Mr W. O. James, Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands, Adelaide, who survives, him. He leaves a family of four daughters and two eons. Of the latter one is Dr A. J. Hall, a specialist practising in this City, and the other is Mr W. G. Hall, secretary of the Wanganui Jockey Club. Mr Eric Croft, who left the Otago Medical School last March to prosecute his studies in London, advises that ho has entered as a student in the London Mospitttl. There are several New Zealanders in this institution, one old Otago student being on tho staff. Mr H. Suter, of, Christchurch, will publish, in it 'Bulletin,' of the geological survey that will be issued shortly a paper dealing with ' Neyv Zealand Mollusca of the Tertiary Period.' It will be a revision of the types described by the late Captain F. W. Hutton in his catalogue of 1873.

A Sydney cablegram states that on Saturdav night Mr Ward, retiring editor of the 'Daily Telegraph,' was bidden farewell at a dinner given by the directors and staff. Mr D. D. Braham, formerly foreign editor of the London ' Times,' who succeeds Mr Ward, was welcomed.