PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18139, 1 December 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

The death, suddenly, has_ occurred at Wellington of Mr F. Sedgwick, an artist whose work is part of the present exhibit ion at the Dunedin Art Gallery. Mr Sedgwick, who was forty-eight years of ago, way found lying at the bottom of a bank :a Queen’s Park, where ho had been sketching an evening effect over the harbor. He was removed to the hospital, but never regained consciousness, and died shortly after admission. The bank beneath which he was found was a low one, and it is thought that he had a seizure of some sort and rolled down. Mr Francis Charles Morice was to-day admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Messrs W. Brown, E. Cheshire, and V\. Clarke, executive officers of the Dunedin branch of the Federated Seamen’s Union, returned last evening from Wellington. On the eve of his retiring from the position of harbor master, Captain George Thomson was met by bis staff at Port Chalmers. Regret a.t parting with such a good chief was expressed by every member, who also wished him many years of happiness. Good wishes for his forthcoming trip to Groat Britain were accompanied by a suit case and travelling rug as mementoes of esteem. Captain '1 bnmson, in responding, referred to the wrench of severing old connections; the. presents and accompanying good wishes ho valued liighlv. , The Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for Victoria has chosen Mr C. M. Focken as Rhodes scholar for the year 1933. Mr Focken was educated first at Middle Park State School and at Wesley College. Entering Melbourne _ University with a Government scholarship, he entered Queen’s College. Bo is now completing his fourth year in mining engineering. During bis course he has won many exhilbittions andl scholarships, including those in mathematics (Parts I. andi II.) and in natural philosophy (Part II.). Ho is a member of Queen’s College tenues four, joint winner of the university doubles tennis championship, and rowed in Queen s College second eight. He proposes to take, a course in physics at the University of Oxford.

The death has occurred of the Very Rev. Dean Hyland, lor twenty-five years in charge of the Roman Catholic parish of (Rangiora, aged fifty-five y earns. He was a native of Tipperary, Ireland, and was stationed for some time on ,the West Coast and at Ashburton. He assisted in the opening of a baaaar on Tuesday, and was found dead in bed yesterday morning. He had an attack of angina pectoris a week ago. The Rev. R. Sonwnerville, clerk to the Auckland Presbytery, was mewtioned by the Moderator of the General Assembly last week as the oldest presbytery clerk in ■New Zealand. Mr John O’Shea, solicitor to the Wellington City Council, who has been abroad for some time on account of ill-health, is expected hack in Wellington in a few dare, and will probably resume his duties at the end of the year. The death occurred on Friday, at. his residence, .Parnell, Auckland, of'Mr S. I. Clarke, a well-known builder, at the age of seventy-three. Mr Clarke arrived 1 in Auckland about fifty years ago. He was at one time a member of the Auckland City Council Ho had filled the positions of president of the Master Builders’ Association of New Zealand and president, of the Auckland Builders’ Association.