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Evening Star, Issue 21284, 13 December 1932, Page 7

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Telegraphic advice has been received by Lord Bledisloe that Lady Alice Fergusson, who met with a serious accident in Scotland recently, is making slow but satisfactory progress. Dr James V. Cable left by. train this morning to visit his father in Wellington. The Rev, Dr Gibb is on his way hack to Wellington. Mr David S. Mackenzie travelled to-day by train from Gore to Christchurch.

Mr G. W. Reid left this morning to attend a sitting of the Railways Board at Wellington. Mr G. R. Ritchie was a passenger for; Wellington by the 11.36 train to-day* Mr Crosby Morris went to-day to Christchurch by train. Mr Gerald Benson, called to Christchurch on business, travelled by the second express to-day.

Mr J. A. Roche is off to the West Coast on a mining business trip. Mr F. G. Payne, of Payne and Son* London, went to Christchurch by train! to-day, and proposes to return to Dunedin shortly. .

An Invercargill Association message states that Police-inspector P. J. McCarthy died at noon after a brie? illness following a stroke a week ago. He was an extremely popular officer and a keen sportsman. The Rev. W. A. Curzon-Siggers, M.A., LL.M., has been appointed as superintendent of the Anglican orphanages in place of the Rev. S. J. Cooper, who leaves Dunedin at the end of January for Christchurch. For the past five years the Rev. W. A. CurzonSiggers has filled the position of subwarden of Selwyn College. At last night’s meeting of the Otago Cricket Association, the president (Mr J. M. Fraser) made feeling reference to the loss sustained by Mr F. N. Binney by the death of his father, and it was decided to send Mr Binney a letter of sympathy.,., ~, Flags were flown at half-mast from aU shipping in port and from the waterfront buildings at Auckland yesterday, as a mark of respect for the late Captain Joseph William Cameron, who died suddenly at _ Balmoral road. Mount Eden. Bom in Flintshire, Wales, fortynine years ago, Captain Cameron went to sea at the age of thirteen, and served his time in sail. When he came to New Zealand he joined the Union Steam Ship Company and was master of ‘ a; number of cargo vessels belonging to that company’s fleet. He retired from the sea and joined the Shaw, Savill Company’s stevedoring staff four years ago. The news of Captain Cameron’s death came as a shock to his many, friends on the waterfront, as he was at' work on Saturday. He is survived by his wife, son, and daughter.