PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 7 November 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Thomas Cotter, City Solicitor, of Aaacklaud/ has been appointed a K.C.

Our Picton correspondent writes: Professor Adamson, of Victoria College, Wellington, accompanied by Mrs Adamson, is at .present spciulmg a ioliday. in Picton.

As a memento of bis thirty rears" service to ,the district in Parliament, the electors of Waitaki have decided to raise funds for tiho purchase- of a house at Johnsonville for Sii William Steward.

Freemasons throughout: New Zealand will regret to hear of tine death o2 Miss Winnie Niccol, daughter or Mr Malcolm Niccol, Grand Secretary. The deoeaseal ilady had been ailing- Jor some time. / Mr, 0. H. Williams, who is m charge 'of the Public Works office at Te Kuiti, paid a visit to Blenheim to-day. Mr Williams, who was Government Boad Engineer for the Marlborough distriefc for 'several years, is spending a well-earned holiday with his family in Pieton. Mr J. Hale, who has been'connect,od with the local post and telegraph efffice for ' some time, -left on I ridav to take up his duties at Picton, at which office he has filled the- vaeangy, caused by the transfer ot Air U. McStosh to Seddo* .Before leaves Blenheim Mr Halo was the recijimt of a shaving-***, from the members of the local■ suift, Mr B. U. Bariosr making the .prese&Satioa, m the course of which, he oemgraiuta^i the departing comrade on *ns .projjio:tion.

A iChristchurch telegram announces that Mr V«ter Pendeiv <jiwtor df police, died! at Heading yeSSay* £& & $** *° in the Irisli Mounted Police m nis youth%ndl went to i^he Crimea, with Lrd' feaglan's Corps, end saw service there. Subsequently he-asnsted to organise the police And came to Victoria mJBS6 and ]om«l the police there. He came fo,]*<f Zealand in 1862, and was promoted to be inspector in 1864, HeJiad. change of the 'Canterbury, South Canterbury, and Wellington districts at; various times, andretired'in,l9o2. He leaves two sons and four daughters.

A private letter, .recently received in "Wellington fromJVl&jor Madocks,. formerly on the staff of Colonel PolePenton, late Commandant, of the JNew Zealand Forces, states that the writer, who is touring South Africa with Gener&l Sir lan, Hamilton, Ln-spector-Geneml of the Overseas Forces of the Empire, visited New Zealand Hill, near Colesburg. The Major found that the stone sangars built lor the defence of the hill, and over whio?i the New Zealanders charged on 15th January, 1900, were through time and woather felling away. Cartridge cases and other evidences of the bayonet charge were still scattered about. It will" be remembered that it was during; the charge that Sergeant Gourley and Trooper Connell, of the First Contingent, were killed1.