PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8829, 22 March 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr McDonald has consented to stand for the Dunedin Mayoralty foi tho second time. Word has been received that Mr Wm. Welch, whose shops were recently burned in Palmerston, left Sydney for Palmerston on Saturday. Mr Gordon Bagnall, of Ravenhill- and Co., sharebrokers, left by this afternoon's express for the Waihi and Thames goldfields Mr Palmer, of Pohangina, who was recently badly injured at Ashhurst in a trap accident, and is at present an inmate of Nurse Linton's private hospital, is recovering slowly. A Taihape correspondent regrets to chronicle the serious illness of Mr Frank Gibbons, of the Gretna Hotel, whose condition ie causing the greatest anxiety to nis numerous friends. The death is announced by cable of Mrs C. Marter, wife of the sub-editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Mr Marter was for many years a member of the literary staff of the N.Z. .Times. Miss H. E. Bowen, postmistress at Lovm, who has been transferred to Aramoho, is to be presented with a purse of sovereigns by the people of Levin prior to leaving their town. Mr R. Carter, who has been Collector of Customs at Wellington, is taking over the duties of secretary' of the Customs Department vice Mr W. T. Glasgow, retiring on superannuation. Mr Carter is the senior collector in the service, and it is regarded as most.likely that ho will fill the secretaryship until he retires on (Superannuation. A long tour is before Professor Macmillan Brown, who left Wellington for London on Friday. After spending a month or so in England-he will set out on a tour of Central and South America, returning to New Zealand by way of San Francisco and Tahiti. He will pay particular attention to the remains of the p_eople of Central Amercia who vanished before the- Spanish exploiters of that region. A Press telegram from Levin to-day announces the death of Mr John McCulloch, clerk of the Hprowhenua County Council, aged 74, which occurred yesyesterday morning. Mr McCulloch was born in Larnt, County Antrim, Ireland, in 1835. He came to New Zealand in 1856, after having some years experience of a seafaring life. After spending a short time in Napier he was appointed clerk of the Manawatu County Council and lived in Foxton for many years. He received his appointment at Levin in 1887 and never missed a meeting of his Council, only being absent for a fortnight on account of ill-health. In 1873 Mr McCulloch was married to a daughter of Mr Thomas Crowther, of Wainui-o-mata, who survives her husband. He was most highly esteemed by all classes of the community. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon and will be attended by the Masons. As already announced Detective Cassells has been transferred to Palmerston, and Detective Quirke, who has so long been doing good work here, goes to Wellington. Detective Quirke has earned a reputation her© for particularly smart work, but he also possessed that rare faculty of carrying out his difficult duties without giving any unnecessary offence, and his reputation thereby has been considerably enhanced. Strict attention to duty has always been an outstanding feature of his character, and he goes to a sphere of operations wherein there is much largo scope for the display of his talents, leaving many admirers* behind. Detective Cassells has also a splendid reputation for keeping the criminal element in check, and in IQO7, when three burglars were convicted in Wellington, he was recommended by Mr Justice Cooper for special recognition.