PERSONAL

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 222, 26 September 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mrs J. A. Bottrell, who has been very seriously ill for some weeks, is now, it is pleasing to report, on the road to recovery.

Bishop.Mules, who is visiting Blenheim, preached at the Church or the Nativity last night to a good congregation. He also conducted, a confirmation service, 35 candidates being confirmed.

Dr Thacker, of Christchurch, who returned from South Africa on Thursday, says that it is his intention to contest the Lytteltpn seat .against Mr Geo. Laurenson at the next ©lection. He will stand as an independent.

Madame Emma Calve, the famous operatic artist, who suffered a slight heart seizure at the concert given m the Town Hall on Thursday evening, had recovered her normal health on Friday.. Together with Signor Gras--parri, M. Pintel, and Mr F. lalbot (manager), she left for Sydney by the Ulimaroa. Mr James Macintosh, manager for Messrs Dalgety and-Co. in Wellington has severed his connection with the firm, with which he has been so long associated, in order to start in •business for himself. He was the recipient of testimonials from the local and district staffs, and also from the heads of the^staffs in Canterbury. Dr Henry, American evangelist, became ill at Hamilton last Saturday, the pressure of the severe campaign recently - conducted' at Napier, Hastings, and Gisborne havmg its effect on the misisioner's health. A letter received in Wellington on Thursday by Mr H.N. Holmes, V.M.C.A., stated that Dr. Henry s health was improving. ' . ■

Mr Hugh Gillies, one of the bestknown members of the Manawatu A. and P. Associatioii, suffered a sad bereavement p-n Thursday in.' the death of his wife. Mrs Gillies had been dangerously ill for some time. _ She was a daughter of the; late Mr Peter Hume, one of the pipneers of the Lower Valley, Wairarapa, and was one of the most respected of; the settlers of that district. Mrs Gillies was 55 years of age.

Mr F. W. Leonard Kirk, solicitor, Opotiki (East Coast), brother of Mr R. C.-Kirk,-solicitor, Wellington;-died on Thursday,after a prolonged illness, aged forty-three years. The deceased wai th© youngest .son, of the Rev. William Kirk, th© veteran Wesleyan missionary," of Petone, and was the first town clerk of that place. After farming at Otaki and1 Opotiki, he studied law in Auckland. Mr Kirk practised as '&■ solicitor in Opotiki, where he also held the positions* of county and town board clerk., He married a daughter of the Rev. Mr Watkin, and is survived by his widow and three children.

Mr John Dalton, one of the oldest and best-known settlers of the Rongotea district, who had been ill in a Palmerston hospital for some time, <ited on Thursday morning. He was 62 years of age, and was a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, which country he left in his eighteenth year for the islands of ihe South, ,Seas. After mining for ten years on the West Coast, Mr Dalton removed to Wanganui, working on the Wanganui-Tura-kina railway line for two years. He was afterwards' flaxmilling at the Oroua Downs for ten years, and fifteen years ago started farming at Rongotea. Ho took a keen interest in public affairs, being chairman of the newly-formed , Oroua- Drainage Board, Director /of the Rongotea Dairy Company, and a member of the Manawatu County Council.

Mr S. N. Ziman, the. brilliant Aucklander and 1908 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, has passed the Indian Civil Service examination. This entitles him to a position in the Indian Service. Successful candidates, when found medically fit, are allowed by the Government about £200 for the following year to remain in England, and study the language used in the district to which they are appointed. Mr Ziman, who'was 23 years of age in November last, has been at Oxfdrd for two years, and, this y«ar, he has taken his B.A. degree with first-class honors in mathematics. So far he' is the only one of the New Zealand-Rhodes scholars who was'young enough j at the time of his election, to compete for a position in the Indian Civil Service. He was -educated at the Auckland Grammar School, and at Auckland University. College.