PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 30 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hon., A. 0. Carmkhael (New South, Wales Minister for Public Instruction/ lias arrived (states a London Press Association cable)* Mr Albert Gee has \been appointed temporary postmaster at Heriot, and! Mr C. E. Barnes: temporary telephonist' at Tapanui railway. station and Mr' John McNarey postmaster and telephonist .at Freshford. Mr Duncan MoFarlane (Mayor of Gore) was sworn in yesterday as a Justice of the Peace by Mr H. A, Young, S.M. This is the third occasion on which* Mr MoFarlane has assumed the position of chief civil magistrate. Mr a* . iounw (town clerk) was also sworn in as a justice of the peace. 'Mr T. o'Byrne has been appointed to represent the Southland SawmillWorkers' Union at the conference ot timber workers, to be held in Wellington. Mr J. Alsweller will also attend the conference on behalf of the New Zealand Timber Workers' Federation. Both will also attend the Unity Congress, to be held about the same time as the conference, and Mr O'Byrne will act on the congress as representative of the Southland cheeseworkera. The funeral of Mr Archibald Campbell, * who was fatally injured on the wharf at Timaru on Thursday, topk place at Tiniara yesterday afternoon (states a Press telegram). All shipping work was suspended, and the following was one of the largest ever seen in the town. Among those on foot were waterside workers, railwaymen, members of cricket clubs (deceased was secretary of the Celtic Club), footballers, and members of the Foresters' Lodge. Wc regret to record the death of Mrs

Esther young, which, occurred at her son's residence, Crombie Street, Gore, yesterday. The late Mrs Young, who was- 80 years of age, was born in Gloucestershire, England, in fwe. yearj 1834 and came to New Zealand in' tjie? year 1876 in the ship Lady Joceryn? landing at Port Chalmers. She settled with her husband at Goodwood, near Palmerston South, and afterwards rev moved to Dunedin. The deceased is survived by her husband (Mr W. F. Young) and son (Mr Frank Young, town clerk) and a | daughter (Mrs. John McLean, of /Bend/go, near Cromwell). The funeral will take place to-morrow' at the Gore Cometery.

_ News has been received at Christchurch (a Press Association jncwafe advises) of the death at Johannesburg, on aMy_ls, of Mr Fred. Stanley Arnot, f.1i.1G.5., the ifamous explorer audi missionary. H has been said that Central Africa owed more ta his work tjian any other man with the exception ofi David Livingstone. The late Mr ArnoJ| spent practically 33 vears of his jjjfl in Central Africa. .He left LojflH

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