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Evening Star, Issue 19841, 14 April 1928, Page 11

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Mr F. J. Rolleston (Minister cf Justice), accompanied by Mrs Rolleston and Miss Rolleston, will arrive in Dun 4 edin next Wednesday. They will be in. the city for two days. The Rev. Eric Evans, of president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, has accepted a unanimous call to succeed the Rev. F. W. Boreham, who has just resigned from Melbourne. Air W. M. Taylor has received word from the Registrar of the University of New Zealand that he has passed the examination for the Master of Laws degree. , In the Locomotive Engineer’s office of the Now Zealand Railways at Christchurch yesterday afternoon there assembled a largo and representative gathering of railway officers to bid farewell to Mr E. H. Seager (chief clerk of the South island main lino and branches of the railway service), who is retiring on superannuation. Mr L. W. Robertson, locomotive engineer, spoke if the sterling worth and character of the departing officer, and his devotion to duty and his unfailing loyalty to the department. Air Robertson handed Air Seager a the cost of which had" been subscribed by officers who had known him well in his forty years’ service with the department. Christchurch correspondent. Air W. Af. Roxby, formerly of St. Clair, passed through Dunedin this morning on his way Iroui 'lapanui to Oamani. Air Alfred Norton Jowitt, who died at Auckland recently, will be well remembered in Otago. Ho was a Yorkshire man who came out to Auckland in the Ida Zeiglcr in 1861, on her articles, and left the ship to come to Otago for - the Gabriel’s Gully rush. He stayed in Otago after his diggings experiences became’ a member of the Provincial Council, and started farming at Puerua, near Air W. Paterson’s place. This farm he sold after a while, to join Mr F. J. Hopkin in a flour-mill at Bair eluthn. When that mill was burned down Air Hopkin entered into partnership with Air A, Montzson (who, by the wav, is now in Dunedin, on a visit from Sydnev, and proposes to stay till the end of the year), whilst Mr Jowitt wont to Auckland and set up as a grain and produce merchant. In 1867 Mr Jowitt. married a daughter of Air Adam King, of One of his sons went to the Klondyke. Mr Jowitt was a prominent chess player, and cousin to Professor Jowitt, of Oxford. Air G. M. Smith, formerly of Dunedin and now of Wellington, is spending a holiday in Dunedin. Those staying at the Excelsior Hotel are Air J. A. Reeve (Auckland), Mr and Airs Goodman, Airs Lucas, and Mr B. B. Bliss (Wellington), Air and Airs Boon, Mr and Airs E. C. Satcliell, Messrs J. B. Dench and C. H. Shephard (Christchurch), Airs M'Lanchlm (Palmerston), Air and Airs Af. Smith and Aliss A. Beid (Oamani), Aliss Harvey and Air F. Bissct (Invercargill), ‘ New visitors to fhe Grand Hotel include Air mid Airs G. R. Alayers (Kenya), Air H. C. Bartley, Air Wallace (Sydney), Air and Mrs E. F.Baws (Wanganui), Air and Airs P. B. Bryden (Wellington), Air and Airs T. Newburgh, Air and Airs G. S. Smith' (Christchurch), Air and Airs Tripp 1 (Timaru). . j Recent arrivals to the City Hotel itw I elude Air and Airs E. ilton), Dr Marsden, Air Alexander j Shaml, Aliss A. Shaml, Air J. SurrelL (Wellington), Air and Airs L. E. Wilt--ehire, Afessrs A. and J. M'Dougall (Christchurch), Air and Airs F. Wallis • (Gore), Air and Airs Ritchie (Inver-] cargill), and Airs Guill (Tapanui).