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Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 6

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Dr E. K. Edie, of Green Island, has been appointed medical officer for the Lake County Hospital, at Frankton. . The South Canterbury Hospital Board selected Dr Ewen, at present one of the house surgeons at the Wellington Hospital, to the post of resident medical officer at the Timaru Hospital. The Johannesburg correspondent of the London ' Daily Telegraph,' under date 25th July, announces that Brigadiergeneral Lukin, C.M.G., D.5.0., will command the Ist' Brigade of the South African Infantry. Lance-corporal W. J. Henry, New Zealand Field Ambulance, who has been awarded the D.C.M. ,for attending wounded under heavy fire, makes modest reference to his work in a letter to his father, Mr G. F. Henrv, Symonds street, Auckland. Before landing he was given charge of a section of bearers. "In the first few days, when events crowded one another," he writes, "I managed, with the backing of my bearers, to do one or two things which brought me, with others, under the notice of the officers. There was no running into danger about it, for no one was out of danger." In the Legislative Council on Friday, the Hon. John Duthie was granted leave of absence for the remainder of the session on account of illness. Mr Stephen R. Veitch (at present in the Telegraph Office.at Greytown), who has enlisted for service in the Ninth Reinforcements and goes into camp early next month, is the eldest son of the member for Wanganui (Mr W. A. Veitch). Mr A. P. Webster, till lately inspector for the Bank of Australasia in New Zealand, has been appointed inspector for the Bank for all Australasia. Mr Webster, while in New Zealand, was recognised as one of the leading authorities in the country on finance. He began his banking career in Christchurch in 1876. His first management was Feilding. He passed through a number of other managerships in New Zealand (where practically all his extensive banking experience has been acquired), until appointed inspector of the bank in this Dominion. A Christchurch message announces the death of Mr John M'Lachlan, formerly member for Ashburton; aged 75. Our Christchurch correspondent wires: —Mr Augustus Hutton Shury, for many years manager of the Ashburton branch of the Union Bank of Australia, died yesterday. He was born in London in 1832, a son of the late George William Shury, head master of the Great Ealing School, and was educated in France. On returning to London he was promised an appointment in the Bank of England, but the gold diggings breaking out in Victoria he was induced to emigrate to Australia. He was in Victoria for nine years. In 1860 he entered the service of the Union Bank, and was transferred to Dunedin, arriving in November of that year. While in Dunedin, amongst other duties Mr Shury had charge of gold-buying, and purchased the first parcel of gold brought to Dunedin by Gabriel Reid, and mnde a model of a sluice box for him in 1874. Mr Shury was appointed to the charge of the Ashburton branch of the bank, and continued its manager for 20 years, when he retired, and for the past 21 years ho has enjoyed a well-earned pension from the institution. His hobby was fishing and shooting. He was prominently connected with tho Ashburton Acclimatisation Society. Mr Shury married in 1661 Miss Janet Chapman, a daughter or the late Mr William Chapman, of Otago, who died in 1884. He had a family of 10 sons and daughters, of whom five daughters are now living. At the funeral service in momorv of Mr Thomas Thomson, of St. Clair, "held yesterday afternoon in the St. Clair Preshyterinn Church, the Rev. John Miller mentioned that word had just been received that the deceased's son, Leslie Thomson, was dangerously ill at Malta. The service was very largely attended by business men. In tho medical examination results telegraphed from Wellington on Saturday the name of Norman FJ. Dempster, who passed Ins M.B. and Ch 8.. was omitted. Dr Dempster has been appointed resident house surgeon ;<t the Invercargill Hospital. Montreal reports the death" of Sir William Van Home, railway director, in his seventy-third year. The death in his sixty-fourth year ie reported of Sir Claude Maxwell Macrtonakl, who . was appointed by the foreign representatives to the command of the Legation quarter at Peking during the Boxer siege in ISCO. and Ambassador at Tokio from 1900 to 1912.