PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr L. Sanderson went to Clirifitchurdh to-day on a business visit. Mr D. Allan (Wright, Stephenson, and Co.) returned! from tho north this afternoon.

Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., went to-day. from Dunedin to Oamaru, where ho is to speak to-night. Mr Herbert Coull, of Wellington, has been In Dunedin on business, and started for home to-day. Mr O. S. S. Kelly, of Wellington, was a passenger by tho 11.15 train from Dunedin to-day. Mr IT. E. Tomlinson, representing Brown Bros., of London, is .touring tho Dominion, and left Dunedin this morning for Auckland.

Captain Kennedy, of Queeristown, was in Dunedin this morning, and left by the 11.15 train bound for Wellington on a short holiday, Mr F. W. Hart, clerk of the court at Dunedin, has received notice to proceed to Christchurch. to relieve the clerk of the court there, who is retiring on superannuation. Mr Hart will leave Dunedin on Saturday. Mr G. Lang will act as clerk pending a permanent appointment. Miss Jean Stevenson, travelling secretory fox the Young Women'e Christian Association of Australasia, is touring New Zealand, and is at present in Dunedin. Miss Stevenson was bom here.

After being half a century at sea, Captain H. Dil'lner is retiring from the employ of tho Blackball Coal Company, and spends the rest of his life ashore. He is still hale and hearty at seventy-seven years of age. No accident ever befell him during his'long years at sea.—Christchurch correspondent. Mr A. Fastier, who has been station master at Bluff during the laat two _ years, has been promoted to the position nt chief clerk at Timaru. Mr Fastier, who leaves the Bluff on Monday next, will bw succeeded by Mr Bond, of the Dunedin staff. At the Congregational Union Confer once yesterday the Rev. F. Warner was appointed to represent tho Congregational Union of New Zealand at the meetings of the Australasian Union, to be held at Sydney 'from May 10 to 14. 'The* death of Mrs Margaret Nicol, of Kaikorai Valley, on March 4 removes another of the early settlers. Mrs Nicol, when four years of age, along with her parents (Mr and Mrs James Patrick, of Tomahawk), and other members of tho family, arrived by tho Philip Laing on April 15, 1848. She is thus one of the very early pioneers of Otago. Her husband died twenty-four years ago. She is survived by two 'sons, four daughters, and twenty-seven grandchildren. At the invitation of Mrs G. A. Lamb a number of ladies in the Mornington district assembled at her residence, Marvhill terrace, yesterday afternoon to meet Mrs Rothwell, wife of tho Rev. B. F. Rothwell, who will shortly transfer to Masterton. A pleasant time was spent, and the occasion was marked by a farewell gift from tho Methodist Ladies' Guild of a leather bag, the work of wounded soldiers, with the name in raised letters. Mrs H. Frapwell made the presentation on behalf of the guild. A London cable announces the death of tho Right Rev, R. H. Whitcombe, who had been Bishop of Colchester since 1909. Ho was born in 1862, and educated at Winchester and' Oxford. ' Ho was a master at Wellington College and at Eton College, and was vicar at Romford at the time of his appointment. He eorved in France as a chaplain to tho British Forces. Mr J. D. Ritchie, Land Purchase Controller, 'reached Dunedin this afternoon. The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Mines and Labor, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr F. M. Sherwood, came to Dunedin last night from Gore, where he has spent a, week, and started this morning for Wellington. The following additional successes in decree examinations aro announced : —Mr R°W. Moir, of Hyde School, M.A. _derrrco with honors in French and Latin ; Mr W. Crawford, of Livingstone School, M.A. denree with honors in history ; Mr F. F. Cameron, M.A. degree; Mr A. Huse passed in chemistry, biology, and physics for tho first section of the B.Sc. degree; Miss M. A. Jennings, of Otago University (at present on the staff of the Christchurch Technical M.A. with second-class honors hi English and history. A London cable announces the death of Mr E. A. Walton, president of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colors. Mr and Mrs J. H. Hint on left Dunedm by the second express to-day to join the Manuka at Wellington for Sydney en route for Durban. After spending the winter there with Mr Ilinton's brother they will return home about November via England and America.