PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12986, 29 November 1902, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Messrs T. Parata, M.H.R., A. 0. Pringle, G.-Burrows, W. S. Strange, E. G. Kerr and A. P. O’Callaghan were passengers for the- south by yesterday’s express train. A telegram [rom Nelson states that Miss Tendall, the principal of the Nelson Girl’s College, has resigned. She intends visiting England. It is believed that her resignation is due to the delay in obtaining six months’ leave,of absence from the Governors of the College. Councillor Best has been elected chairman of the Waimea County Council. The Rev J.. White and the Hon E. C. J. Stevens arrived from Wellington by the s.s. Tarawera yesterday. The many friends of Captain Bernech, of the s.s; Te Anau, will regret to hear that his daughter died on Wednesday afternoon at Dunedin.

The Wellington “ Evening Post ” understands that Mr Justice Conolly will retire from the Supreme Court Bench at the end of the year.

A Wanganui telegram states that it is rumoured that District Judge Kettle is to be relieved of magisterial and licensing work, and that bis duties are to be confined to district court work, with jurisdiction in Napier and Pahiatua as well as the west coast of the North Island.

Mr John Barraclough Fell, the inventor of the 1 well-known' Fell system for the ascent by railways of .steep mountain gradients, died' in England last month, at the mature age of eighty-seven years. Mr Fell’s system, bj- which the Rimutaka Ranges are crossed by the Wellington and Masterton Railway, was first used on the Mont Cenis line, prior to the opening of the celebrated tunnel. The Fell system is also in use on the Canto Gallo Railway of Brazil. Mr Fell carried the first- railway over the Alps, built the first railway in the Papal States of Italy, and placed the first steamer on Lake Windermere, in Westmoreland, the last dating just half a century ago Mr James Mills, general manager fertile Union Steamship Company, ' left for Wellington by the s.s. Tarawera last night. Mr Mark Thomas, of Lyttelton, who spent the last six months in an extended holiday trip to the Pacific Islands, Vancouver, North America and England, returned home yesterday.