PERSONAL
General Richardson is expected to reach Xct Zealand about the 10th .April. Captain J. It. W. Sheppard is appointed com ll) an<l paymaster for the Otago district, ami will t.ie over the duties from (lap! tin Shorney. Captain Sheppard, paymaster at Trentham, joined the infantry to get io tire war. On his return to New Zealand ho v.'as made base cashier aX Headquarters. One of the most interesting names in the list of Now Year honors was that of fgr .Aho Briley, who becomes a baronet. Kir Abe was well known in England both as a racing man and a cri-lcet enthusiast, lie won the Ccsarewitcb three years ago with Son-in-f.aw. v,' he r . ; e " \v : the South African Derby with Content mont by I’ielri out r.f Felicity. The new baronct. who has e\i; ra-ivo interests in South Africa, was mainly responsible for the triangular cricket tounnment of a few yen's ago. Sergeant Ronald Brace Rennie, a son of Air J. Rennie, of Leith street north, Dunedin, has been awarded the D.C.M. Ho went awav with the Bth Reinforcements. Mr Leslie Norman Ritchie was to day ad mitted as a solicitor of the Supremo Court. One of t.ho latest gift? to the Otago Early Settlers’ .Association mur-enm is a photograph of MV and Mrs Pi-"t Beil and their descendants. Mr and -Mr? ILfl, then ncwly-ma;ri d. came out by the .Jinn, landing at Port Chalmers on Septwit»*p 23, 1858. They wni’-cd t-r> Stirling, ivh eMr Bell was engaged as shepherd by M” .Archiibald Anderson. Snbseonently Mr Bell leased a farm at Lakeside. AfN*rwards he bought and set tied on a property in North Balelntha.- Tire diamond wedding was celebrated on May 31 last year, on which occasion the, photograph now referred to was taken! The sons there pictured are Air -T. B. Hell for Auckland). All’ Archibald IT. Bell (A-uekland). Afr Robert E. Bell fNgaruav.'ahiaL and Mr Peter A. Bell (Riverton). Thoro arc six daughters—vi/„. Airs -Trs. Thomson (Bel-clnt-ha.), Alr S J. B. C. AVRt. (NiglßcnpA, Air, A. R. Laltimore (Baldnlhal, ?B--. T Lon "her (fJifborno). Airs J. Proith 1 PI-'ll. andhAli-'s A. Bell. All these except M>-s Smith were present rt the dia.m-'d wedding. A host of younger members of the family are also sV.-.-n.
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Evening Star, Issue 16995, 18 March 1919, Page 4
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