PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 217, 15 September 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Paris cablegram reports .tt©" death oi William Grand, /&&■■ musician. \ ;

On the recommendation of the matron, Misses. O'Neill and Kelleher, whose term of probationer ship expired last month, were appointed to the permanent nursing staff of' the Wairau Hospital at yesterday's meeting pi' the Board.

The death is announced, by a Press Association telegram , from Greymouth, ,of Mr Florence: McCarthy Jt a well-known, journalist; aged 80 years. For many ■ years Mr McCarthy was editor ol* the Grey River Argus, ,' . retiring a few months ago. ■.'•:: Mr Philip Snowden, Socialist Mem-' ; ber for Blackburn in the British House of Commons, and Mrs Snowden have sailed from Vancouver, in the Marama, and are expected to. reach Auckland on September 23rd. Snbsequently they will tour the Dominion. The DeaJi of Christchurch. has received news that his son, Mr Charles • 38 Carringfcon, who left for a trip to England last April ? is joining a battalion of the Birmingham contingent for service at the front. His elder broitheiv Mr Christopher Carrmgtonj is a lieutenant., with the Otago Expedi-, tiojiary'Forced - ■■■.•• ■ ■;■■ <\ ."■■,' ' .'■ ■ .':-'K';/:----;!-The death ' occurred at Nelson on>: S&turda^of: ,Mr Henry Trent, formerly Commissionerof.Crown Lands , in \Nelson,. Marlborough, and Hawke's -* Bay. The deceased yas born in 1848. v He was 'educated^ Jat a •privatesacademy in London, and later at son College. He; entered; the Civil Service in 1863 .as .a survey cadet. under the Provincial Government .bf/; Nelson. In .January, 1868, owing to the. opening, of the Buller goldfields , and the impetus thus given to publics - works, surveying, etc., on,the WestCoast} *Miv Trent;- was transferred:^* \ Westport, which became >h© district: 'office; of tlie /Nelson ' South-west Goldfields; In .1873 lie was promoted .tot the-position .of: District; Suiyeyor f«)*■•:; t the Grey district,1 with heaii- ; quairters": {yt- AhaUi-a., This-position hb" I held until: the /abolition;'"of $ie » proyiTices, when, with..'other iProyiri^■'..' :cial Government officers, he?-was;ti'ans^r. . €erred;to th^ General Suryey?J>epart4' ':, ment as Chief iljTaaightsman^qf^Nel^; v, :■ fe'pH|';v: He:'heldi'this^p<)Httionr!vu^il^ May,. 190^ wlieft fe^was^j^mofced toi'i;' be Chief Surveyor ; and Commissiorierr of .Crown .iLajudii;,; at' Marlboroug'hi '• Later he occupied these positions at , ; Nelson1, whence he - was : ]lix)moted to * ■ the Ha^vke'sßay comniissionersiiipfjA;*. ,'few;-: ye i arsI ;%ago i ..the',.-late v'Mr-;,Tii eht. -re-1;;;,' ■tired and returned; ito;Nelson; : .-.,■.,. : -j. ■"':■ :'\.)