PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14975, 22 April 1909, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Messrs R. Bowie (Timaru), D. Shoobridge (Tasmania), R. Hudson (Dunedin), G. H. M’Ewan (Dunedin) and F. Malfroy (Wellingon) are in town. The death is announced of Mr William Sievwright, solicitor, an old resident of Gisborne, formerly a partner of Sir Robert Stout in the firm of Stout and' Sievwright. Nurse Godfrey, of Dannevirke, hae been appointed matron of the Gisborne Hospital. The resignation of the Rev Father Keogh, rector of St Patrick’s College. Wellington, has been accepted. He will be succeeded by Dr Kennedy, of Meeanee, who will be replaced by Dean Smith, of Hastings. Mr W. H. Rule and Miss Rule and AH’ James Smith left Ashburton on Tuesday ovoning on . a trip to Great Britain.

Mr Thomas H. Laby, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has been appointed Professor of Physics at Victoria College, Wellington, and Mr Charles A. Cotton, at present director of tho Coromandel School of Mines, has been appointed lecturer in geology. The “ Dominion ” states that Mr • Alfred Hill, the talented musician, oomposcr and conductor, who hap been seriously ill for some four months, is now in such a serious condition that the worst is feared- Mr Hill, who has been operated on twice for empyema, suffered an attack of hemorrhage on Saturday. On Sunday night it was feared that he would not lost through tho night, and tho family were summoned to the private hospital in which he lies. Ho rallied slightly on Monday, and there is still a faint hope that he may pull through. On Monday evening Air William Anderson, who has been employed as farm manager and receiver of stock at the Fairfield Freezing Works, and who has severed his connection with the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, was presented by the employees with a. liqueur stand and oak case and a silvermounted cruet and case.

At the fortnightly meeting of the Rangiora Fire Brigade on Monday evening Brancbman 0. Du Moulin resigned, after twenty-two years’ service.