MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1905, Page 3

MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

The death is announced of Baron Alphonse Rothschild, a member of tha well-known financial house.

Mr John Tinline was a passenger by the Gothic, which left Wellington for London on Sunday.

Missßia Maoalister, of Picton, has been appointed to the Kekerangu aided school, and will start in her new duties about the 20th of June.

Among the gold medallists (twelve in all) at the examinations in connection with the South African (Johannesburg) School of Music were three New Zealanders—the only three attending the school. These were the Misses Northcroft (daughters of Mr Leo. Northcroft, formerly of Hokitika.) and Mr Don (an Otago boy), who is an instrumentalist, the young ladies taking honours as vocalists.

Friends of Mr Dan Chittenden, a former resident of Blenheim and father of Mrs T. J. Storey, of Pioton, who was recently paying a visit to Nelson, will be sorry to learn that when on his way to Wellington he was taken seriously ill on the staamer, and had to be landed at Picton, where he has since remained, suffering from congestion of the lungs. A slight improvement in his condition is now observed.

The Venerable Archdeacon Devoy, and the Rev. Father Hickson, of Wellington, attended the services at St. Mary's Church, Blenheim, yesterday. The former preached in the evening. Father Hickson, who will be here next Sunday, is engaged in visiting the various parishes of the arch-diocese on behalf of the fund with which Wellington Cathedral is to be rebuilt. He stated yesterday that his tour of the West Ooaßt has resulted in the collection of a sum just exceeding £2000.

At Auckland, Percy Whittel, alias De Coureey, alias Earl of Northesk, was committed for trial on five charges of forgery for sums of £250, £40, £140, £1, and one for £100. In each ease the witnesses stated that the accused introduced himself to the business firm as Captain De Coureey, He, however, signed the cheques "Redno -," explaining that De Coursey was a family name. The cheques alleged to be forged amounted to £531. Only one, that for £1, is alleged to have been cashed.

The Duke of Manchester is to become a railway clerk. He will shortly return to England to make arrangements for a prolonged absence from home, and will then return to America to learn how to become a railway magnate. Mr Zimmerman, his father-in-law, says he will give the Duke a chance of proving his business aptitude, but that he will have to start right at the bottom, and so eventually succeed him in the management of his railway. First he will make him a clerk on the Pere Marquette Railway, a shipping railway along Lakes Superior and Michigan, and If he makes progress he will be promoted to a much more important post on the railway properties of his father-in-law at the end of a year.