PERSONAL

North Otago Times, Issue 13236, 6 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

I. Ail 1 "L T.VWntkiuß liaß<:kouY«leeti)iJ j?ro9i(lent"of the Master'printers'■Associntion, for tho ensuing year.

Mr T. W.'-Leslie,' wlio.is now residehl in Wellington,, is spending n few (toys in Oamrtru. . ■

Inspector Hugo,' of tho ,Pive Brigade Department, arrived in Onmani yesterday, afternoon, and will Jeavo for Dunedin by tho first express today.,. Captain 0. C, Mnyne, of the lOlli (Nelson) Mounted Rifles, now with the main Exnoilltiohnry.. i'oreo in Egypt, has been prompted to the rank'of'major,

Mr J. B. Mawson, assistant master at Wellington College,' has resigned, his position on the college staff in order to join the Expeditionary Force,

Mr Richard Pell has been elected president .of the Nelson Chamber' ot Commerce-si position which both his father and grandfather', had filled.

A London 1 cable says that Corporal (Smith, the last survivor of the Birken head, is ' dead, He r died in St, Ives Workhouse.. Smith saved the life oi Captain Lucas.' • • ■

'A'disLingirishedvisitoi to Wellington next week will be Mr M. Tsuchiya, editor oj. : the 'Japanese ■ newspaper, Osaka AsaM' (Osaka Morning Sun)', Mr Tsuchiya arrive 'at Auckland on Sunday by the Maheno, and will proceed to Wellington.

.TJie Triennial Conference of the Amalgamated Society' of Railway Servants re-elected Mr. W. T. 'Wilson (Palmerston North) president for the ensuing three years, Mr Charles E. Wheeler was re-appointed editor of tlie Railway Review, the Society' 3 journal.

Mr L, I*. Pepperell, railway stationmaster at Nelson,*has received notice of transfer on 'promotion to the position of goods agent, Auckland. ■ He succeeds Lieutenant-Colonel Barclay, of the New Zealand Railway Engineer Corps, who takes charge of the. next New Zealand Reinforcements,

Word litis been received In Bulls bv Mr .1. McDonald of the death of hjs son, .Mister McDonald, who left New Zealand for England with a draft of horses, and then joined the Foreign Legion. He was working a battery with 18 others near Antwerp, when the) wore blown to pieces by a shell.

The following were yesterday elected oftlcors of the (Newspaper Proprietors' Association for the ensuing year:President, Mr P, Selig; Vice-President, Mr.P, E. llymnn; Committee, Messrs L, Bliindell, G. Fenwick, F, Pirnni, F. Abbey Jones, H. Hortoii; auditor, Mr M. G. Kerr; secretary, 'Mr L. J. Berry.

Mr Will, Hope, who has during the past few yearn been on the stall's of various newspapers in the Dominion, and was latterly engaged on the Christchurch Sun as black and white artist, left for Ban Francisco on Thursday by the Monna, iii order to gain further experience in cartoon and caricature work.

Advice has been received in Dnnedin from-Mrs Mabel. Manson (neo Braithwaite, of that city) that her son, William, has been appointed Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music, notwithstanding the fact that he is only IS years of age and has just completed his first year's study there, He gained three medals at the close of that year—for harmony, . pinno, and sight-singing respectively. Mr Daniel Wndsworlh, whose death occurred at Waitati ; 'on Saturday,■.■w'nji one of the pioneers of. Otagi)., Hejyns born at Earlam, near .Manchester (F.ijgiland), in 18!t0. Immediately after'hii marriage he left Liverpool with his wife in.the ship Herald of the .Morning, and arrived in Melbourne in November, 1859, after a passage'of 75 days. After two years ho left Australia in the ship Arabia, and after a passage of three weeks, ar.rived.at Port Chalmers in August, JHCI. He participated in Ihe Gabriel's Gully rush, staying twelve months. On coming to Dunedin, he was employed as foreman of works by the Provincial Government, and laid-out Bond, Water, and Jetty streets. Later on, with Mr M, King, of Mornington, he took the Pitt street contract, but, as the weather was adverse to the work, they completed the contractual: a loss, In'lßß2 he took up farming at Mount Cargill, where ho liver until four years ago, since when he ha 3 been living privately at Waitati. Deceased was a life member of the Gabriel's Gully Pioneer Association. He is survived by his widow and a family of six sons and four daughters.