PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8299, 1 June 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Henry A. Cornford, solicitor, of Napier, has been gazetted as Crown Prosecutor at Dannevirke.

On the eve of his departure for Stratford, Mr John Laurenson was yesterday presented with a smoker's outfit by the staff of the local Post Office.

Loie Fuller, the wonderful dancer, is, it is stated, almost blind. She herself says her sight was ruined by dancing on mirrors, upon which limelight was thrown to give the effect of flame.

An old age pensioner named Henry Gregg died at the Hospital last night. Deceased, who was 68 years of age, was a former resident of Wanganui. He had been in the institution for some little time. His widow is resident in Palmerston.

The Borough Council yesterday afternoon decukr] +o appoint Mr F. H Cooke as its solicitor, in place of Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, who retired in consequence of being elevated to the Magisterial Bench There were applications for the position.

Mr Butler, the young Wellington artist who recently returned to England to settle there permanently, has been doing excellent work of late. He has had pictures accepted and hung this year in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, and the Bristol Art Gallery.

Mr William Wakelin, whose death was reported yesterday at the age of 82, at Grey town, has been associated for some yea re past with the wooden sculpture on the Moroa plains. Mr Wakelin was formerly a contractor. It was late in life that he took up the wooden sculpture as a hobby, and he made some excellent representations of animals, birds and human beings, the figure of Ajax being the best of the group. Mr Wakelin had continued the carving oi" these figures up to the time of his death, and it is believed there are some still unfinished.

Mr William Edward Ballantyne, an old resident of Auckland, died yesterday at Ponsonby, at the age of 77 years. Mr Ballantyne (says a Press Association telegram) came to the colony about - thirty years ago from Hobart, and entered the service of the Lands and Survey Department, in which he remained up to the time of his retirement, a few years ago. With the exception of a short period spent at Gisborne, _he has resided during' the whole time of his sojourn in this colon'" at Auckland. He loaves a widow, one daughter (Mrs Newton, of Sydney), and three sons—Messrs Robert, Collin, and Clyde Ballantyne, of Auckland.