PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr C. Blackman, recently appointed town clerk of Port Chalmers, commenced his duties yesterday. The death occurred at Masterton of Mr Edward M'Ewcn, aged seventyseven years, an early .settler of North Wairarapa. He was for many years a borough councillor and a member of the Licensing Committee. In the early stages of the Boor War he was engaged by the Government purchasing horses for remount purposes. The Rev. Ernest S. Tuckwoll, 8.A., of Kew, Melbourne, cabled yesterday liis acceptance of the unanimous invitation given him to the pastorate of the Hanover Street Baptist Church, whiob has been rendered vacant by the transfer of the Rev. R. H. Knowles Kempton to Whangarei. Mr Tuckwcll was relieving minister at Hanover Street during May, and the' members of the church are pleased that he has accepted their call. He has held very successful pastorates in South Australia, and has been six years at Kew, where a new church was erected during his ministry. Mr Tuck well has been largely attracted by the student element in Dunedin, and intends to keep in contact with the University and the colleges. It is anticipated that ho will begin his ministry at Hanover Street in September. An Auckland telegram says that advice has been received from Whangarei that Mr J. C. Martin, a former judge of the Supreme Court, died last night, aged seventy years. The late 51 r Martin was born in England. Coming to Now Zealand at an early age, he was educated at Riccarton and Christ College, and served his articles at Christchurch, being admitted to the Bar in 1881. Ho joined the firm of Messrs Duncan and Cotterill, and became Crown Solicitor in 1884. In 1893 ho was appointed stipendiary magistrate at Wellington, and in 1896 was made Public Trustee. On April 12, 1900, ho was elevated to the Supreme Court Bench, from which he resigned on December 4 of the same year. Since that time he had boon practising as a, solicitor and barrister in Auckland, and was a member of the firm of Messrs Devore, Martin, and Prendergast. The late Mr Martin was a member of the College Rifles Cadets and of the E Battery, of which he was captain for eight years. The death is reported from Woodville of Mr Gottfried Lindauer, aged eightyeight. The deceased, who was a wellknown painter of Maori pictures, was born in Pilsen, Bohemia, and resided in New Zealand for over forty years. Mr Charles Edmund Bevan-Brown, whose death occurred here, was exhead master of the Christchurch Boys’ High School. The deceased was born in Cornwall (England) in 1854, and was educated at the Louth and Bristol Grammar Schools and Lincoln College. He won the open class scholarship at Oxford, and secured his M.A. degree in 1873. From 1879 to 1883 ho was assistant master at tjio Manchester Grammar School, and in the latter year was appointed to the head mastership of the Boys’ High School. Christchurch, a position which ho held for forty years.