PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Rev. Lionel Fletcher and his wifa came from Invercargill this morning and went on to Christchurch.

Mr Robert Duncan, being called to Auckland on business, went by the 11.30 train tins morning, Mr A. H. Cockayne, Director .of Agriculture, left Dunedin for Wellington tins morning after being here a week. Mr J. Trongrove went to Christchurch by tho second express to-day. Mr A. W. Rodger, of the Southland .Dower Board, arrived in Dunedin by tho south express this morning. _ Dunedin delegates to the Baptist Conference loft this morning for Auckland —tho Revs. H. Knowles Kempton, Eria Evans, T. Weston, S. Morris, and L. J. B. Smith, and Mr W. Wright. Tho Veterans of Variety went to Christchurch by tho early express today.

| After a short stay on the reporting i staff of tho ‘ Otago Daily Times,’ Mr Alan C. Baume left by tho 11.15 express this morning to join the Ulimaroa on Friday for Sydney, where he will take up an appointment on tho staff of ‘ Smith’s Weekly.’ That Mr Banina had made many friends among Dunedin journalists was proved on Saturday evening, when lus associates in newspaper work met in force in the Grand Hotel to wish him success in the wider sphere in which he would move. Sir A. Wycherley (president of the Dunedin Journalists’s Union) was in tha chair, ami in presenting Mr Bauma with a cigarette case from the staffs of both the ‘ Times 1 and the 1 Star ’ he referred to his many good qualities and bis ability as a newspaper man. Several others spoke, and pleasure was expresed at the cordial relationship existing between the men of both journals, a relationship that Mr Baumo’s happy qualities had helped to maintain. The guest book at the Excelsior Hotel contains the following new names:—Mr and Mrs Ritchie (Bannockburn), Mr R. B. Meek (Oamarn), Messrs A. W. Hawleh and H. A. Whittle (Wellington), Miss D. Drew (Hawke’s Bay), Messrs J. H. Reeve and J. C. Burrow (Auckland), and Mr and Mrs Willis. A Rvdney message states that Mr J. C. Whitson, the first Labor Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, has married Miss Lane, of Western Australia. A London cablegram states that Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee, who died on Mav 7, left £15,535. The majority of the members of tho Queensland League team loft for Christ* church by the first express this morning, hut'Messrs H. Sunderland ness manager) and J. Craig rcmaineC behind on business cunm.iat-U wan mo

At the animal meeting of theNeW Zealand Cricket Council Mr J. J. Clark, of Dunedin, was unanimously elected president in succession to Mr E. Heathcote Williams, who has held the position of president for several year's now, but who did not seek re-election. Work done by Mr A. G. M'Gcorge iq erecting signposts for the club on i various roads in the district was recog- : nised in a unique manner by the Otago i Motor Club at its annual meeting on ' Saturday evening. After expressing the chili’s gratitude to Mr M'Georga for the assistance ho had given the club, the president (Mr A._ E. Ansel!) handed him a miniature signpost, set_ in a marblo pedestal, with the initials “ 0.M.0. to A. 0. M‘G.” A Nelson P.A. message states that Mr F. Townsend, of Townsend and Paul, Wellington, died suddenly early this morning, following on a heart seizure. The deceased was on a visit to his daughter (Mrs Frood). Dr Colin Campbell’s death is announced from Christchurch by a Ijoss Association message, which mentions that his age was twenty-eight, and that he represented Canterbury in Rugby play in 1921 and 1922 and was a member of the South Island team in 1919, To that nows we may add that Dr Campbell graduated at the Otago University, and was a prominent member of the A team that was put in the field at that University. He died on Saturday night ns the result of some internal trouble. With much regret we record th« death of Mr Duncan Cameron, of Kensington, at 2 o’clock this morning. He was in the employ of the ‘Evening Star’ Company for over thirty _ years, first as a compositor, then as a linotype operator, and latterly as a proof reader. His comrades sympathise truly _ and deeply, for Mr Cameron was a faithful and reliable and considerate man in all his relationships, and he possessed a lar"s fund of that general knowledge which is so essential in a printinghouse. He is survived by Mrs Cameron and one son. A Wanganui Press Association telegram advises the death of Mr G. D. Stone, aged seventy-seven, _ from heart trouble following an operation.