PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A vote of condolence was accorded Councillor Carr by the Borough Council last night in his recent bereavement.

A cablegram from England an-n-ounces the death of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, formerly Governor of New South Wales.

A Dunedin telegram states that at a meeting of the Professorial Board of Otago University last night Mr Montague Ongley, of the Waitaki High School, was nominated as Rhodes Scholar for Otago.

Mr A. Jermyn, an ex-pupil of the Marlborough, High School, who is now prosecuting his studies at the Auckland University College, has advised Dr Innes that he has kept second year's Terms in three subjects. He will sit for the first section of the B.A. degree this month. On the 17th November (reports the Pelorus Guardian) Mr and Mrs Nees, senior, of Wellington, .parents of Mr C. Nees, of Okaramio, will celebrate their diamond wedding; they were married in 1850. Mr Nees, sen.,-is in his 84th year, and both he and his wife are splendid specimens or hale old age

Mr Freeman Hale, who has been connected .with the local branch, of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., for some years, has been transferred to the firm's Nelson branch, and leaves for his new sphere of labor this afternoon. Mr Hale has proved Mmself a courteous and obliging officer, and his departure will be regretted by many friends. \ ,

The head office and Wellington staf of the Bank of New Zealand oi Thursday farewelled Mr J. S. Wilson who is retiring from the service o the bank in order to go into the woo and produce business in Blenheim, h partnership with Mr J. P. Bourke/ o that town (says the N.Z. Times). M: Kane, the Wellington manager of th< bank, on behalf of the staff, presente< Mr Wilson with a solid electro-plate< 'liqueur stand, and for Mrs Wilson i silver tea and coffee service an< salver. Sir John . Logan Campbell, th< ''father of Auckland," celebrated hi rninety-Tfourth birthday on -Thiarsday wfienT he received ;th& cdhgratulatiori ~6f. iiunie;rous callers and also th tfelieitations and good wishes of; man; correspondents, who forwarded tele graphic messages from all parts of thi Dominion. Sir John, despite tin weight of years, still retains a largi measure of the excellent health tha /lie has always enjoyed, and receive! ■his callers as usual at his x>flice i] Shortland Street, and ■ exchange< ■greetings with them in his customar; cheerfulness. < .

An old and .respected resident of Blenheim in the person <ii Mr J." J. McCabe died at his residence in Maxwell -Road at 2.45 o'clock this morning, after an illness extending over some weeks. He took to his bed yesterday morning, and after sleeping nearly all day, passed peacefully away this morning. The late Mr McCabe was married in England in 1859, and came out to New .Zealand in 1863, settling at Lincoln, in Canterbury, where he wa9 engaged in teaching school. Twenty-five years ago he came to Blenheim and taught in St. Joseph's school till the Sisters of Mercy took up -the work. The deceased was a honorary member of the Hibernian Society, and a prominent member Jof the Catholic Church. - Hewas always ready to help towards local charities. At the time of his dearth he was 72 years of age. He leaves a widow and two daughters to mourn their "loss.