PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr J. Loch, late juvenile probation officer at Napier, lias been transferred to Dunedin in a similar capacity. Mr M'Cari'oll, who has been carrying on the work here, will return to Inxeicargill. Additional-successes in degree exammaAU William A. section B.A. ; -Mr Hector M Kay, IliSu section; 8.A.; Mr Alan class honors in English and Latin, 1.. . Mrs Grainger Hargreaves, wue m tno Rev. Grainger Hargreaves, who .ps Dean representing the Wesleyan Methodist people of England at the Methoaist centenary celebrations in this count:}, is on a visit to Dunedin. p w It is understood that Major_ B. -N Fraser, district area officer, is included in the list of officers who are about to retire from the service of the Defence Department. During _ the war period Maior Fraser proved himseli a_ thoroughly efficient soldier on active service, gaining the respect of all those under ha command. As area officer in tho Otago cistnct he has 'at all times been courteous and obliging, and his retirement will cause general regret, , ~ ... lr The Prime Minister, who loft Wedington last night, visited the Ashburton show this morning. He spent the aiternoon at Geraldine, and was to deliver a poiuical address at Pairlie to-nighk He will proceed to-morrow to Lake lekapo to view tho sits o? the proposed hydro-electno power works, spending tho mgiit nt Mount Cook Hermitage. A wedding which has created a great dc?J oi interest throughout Nov; Zealand was celebrated at St. Mary’s Church, Merivale, Christchurch, yesterday afternoon, when Miss Beatrice Wood, second daughter of the late William Wood and of Mrt Wood, “ Hadicigh,” Springfield road, St. Albans, was married to Mr ihomas L. 1. Seddon, M.P., son of the late Richard John Seddon and Mrs Seddon, of Goldie’s Hill Wellington. Tho ceremony was performed by Canon W. S. Bean, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, assisted by Arch- i deacon Haggitt. Relatives _ friends were present from ail over New Zealand, and included Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and Mr and Mrs T. M. Wilford. Tiie Hon. J. G. Coates expects to arrive at Pembroke cither on Sunday night or at midday on Monday. On Monday he will proceed via Ardgonr to Cromwell. Ho will open the new post office at Alexandra the following day, and will arrive in Duncuin on Wednesday. The Minister will leave for the north on tho 23rd inst. Mr and Mrs D. G, M Thereon on Tuesday last celebrated quietly with a few friends at their residence in High street the diamond jubilee of their wedding. Mr MTherson was born in Caithness in 1867, and remembers bis fellow-townsman, Sir ! John Ross, when Sir John was a little boy serving behind a counter in his first position. He came out to New Zealand by the Pladda on her first trip, reaching Dunedin in August, 1860. When the Gabriel’s Gully discovery was made known Mr MTherson joined so early in tho rush that when he got there there were not more than twenty before him on tho scene. In Dunedin he started work in Reynolds’s bond store, and it was while employed there that he was married to Miss Janet Adams, of Edinburgh, a lady who had been a follow-passenger of his on the Pladda. The ceremony was performed on March 14, 1862, at the Union Bank, High street, by tho Rev. Dr Thomas Burns. At the gathering on Tuesday the health of the bride and bridegroom was proposed by Mr J. L. Salmond, who extended to them heartiest felicitations on their long and | honorable record and earnest, good wishes for tho future. Tho afternoon was thoroughly enjoyed by all the friends present, On two occasions Mr MTherson remembers seeing the tide come right up to where Jacobs’s Corner now is. lie was an officer in tho Customs Department, Dunedin, for sixteen years, and was then transferred to Invercargill, where he spent tho following twenty-six years in the same service before retiring in ISOI. Mr J. Blair Mason, civil engineer, arrived in Dunedin last night from the j north, and will spend a few days in tho city.

air R. H. Simons, railway station master at Dunedin, left to-day, on leave, for a short visit to Christchurch and Wellington, and is being relieved by Mr H. P. Stornaway. Hr Tlios. Lynch, well remembered in Dunedin as a footballer of the old type, has been spending a holiday in Dunedin, and left today for Timaru, where ho holds a foreman's position in the railway service.

Hr and Mrs J. A. Johnstone went north to-day for a short visit to Wellington. Mr J. K. Lowe, Railways District Engineer at Invercargill, is transferred to Wanganui, and left by to-day’s express. The wife of the Rev. A. Neild, principal of the Church Maori College at Napier, left' Dunedin this morning, with the children, to join her husband. Mr T. Ritchie, of Chao. Begg and Co., went north to-day on a business trip to Wellington. Mr A. S. Malcolm, M.P., will cross Cook Strait to-night, being called to Wellington on private business. Mr Thos. Johnstone, at one time in business as a chemist in Dunedin, brought his holiday here to an end to-day, and is on his way bade to Wellington. Mr B. M. Jacobs, a well-known solicitor, and, president of the Palmerston North Returned .Soldier-)’ Association, has been approached with a request that ho should stand for the Palmerston scat at the next election in the interest;; of the United Liberal. Party. Mr Jacobs has asked time to consider the position.