PERSONAL MATTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 29 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS

A Sydney' cable reports the death of Ivir wadace, Superintending engineer to th« Union S.S. Company.

Miss M. Foy, who lias beon headmistress at the Thames High School i'or 26 years, has severed her connection with the school. The fact is being suitably recognised by* her past pupiis, now scattered throughout Australasia.

The death occrirred at Grcymoutli oil / Thursday last of Mr Thomas Scott | Cairney, aii«old and much esteemed reI sident of the district.

Out of seven applications the Hospital and Charitable Aid 'Board yesterday appointed Dr Hatherley Medical Superintendent of the Wanganui Hospital.— Press wire.

Mr E. C. Ivelling, Clerk of the Court, who has been on holiday leave for somo weeks, returned to Nelson yesterday, and will resume his duties on Monday next.

Major Brown, assistant QuartermastorCieneral, arrived in Nelson this morning from Wellington. Ho is here in connection with the erection of the Artillery "Barracks.

Colonel ~-eard, DiVector of Military Training, arrived in Nelson by the. Pateena -from Wellington this morning. He will meet the local officers on Saturday night in connection with training matters.

Mr J. Mackintosh Bell, late Government Geologist in New Zealand, has gone to Turkestan on behalf of some English capitalists. Returning in due course to London, he is to go out to Canada. on behalf of an English syndicate interested in mining affairs in the Porcupine district.

The death occurred at New Plymouth on Saturday at the age o£ 79,* of Mr Alfred William Moore, a very< old resident- of New Plymouth. The late Mr Moore came to New Zealand in 1856 from Lancashire. He worked on a farm at Westown till the war broke out, when he left for Nelson. There fid resided for fsoveral yo.itrs until the cessation of hostilities, and married Miss Catherine Harris. the eldest daughter of a very old Taranaki settler.- who, with his family, had gone to Nelson for refuge. He returned to New Plymouth at the end of. 1853, ;and: had resided there over since.

News has just been received that Mr' D. J. Max, of Bright water, Has successfullji negotiated- the "Materia Medica" exam, at Edinburgh University. T.' rough the kindly influence of one of the professors, Mr M-ax has been enabled to spend his vacation At- Middlesborough Infirmary. Evidently, from letters received, byi friends, he is having a real busy time, sis among other duties he mentions, one day's work consisting of pulling eight teeth, amputating a finger, and administering anaesthetics in a number of cases, and opening ahand and joining a tendon.