PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

i- ! ; v The death is, reported at Waipukurau of an old lldivkcVßay resident, in the per,T S on of Mr. John Merryleew, -who saw active scrvico in connection with the pursuit 4j To Kooti."" Miv J-.8. R«id, of the ■ Eldeiblie .Estate, ' ' . near Oamaru, and well known as an expert ftheepbree'dcr and racehorse owner, has been If : . appointed a director of ■ the Bunk of New Zealand, vice Mr. F. de C. Malet, resigned. "'lfr. Hugh Fitzgerald. who is regarded as pp|lt)t the best rate-collectors in the Dominion our ' Cambridge, correspondent), has. ; , .«*)tnplet<3(l ,31 years, of .service as clerk to (lie Pukeltura Road Board. He is over 80 years of age. _ ' Captain Walter Ltlmsden, of H.M.S. Gladiator, who- is reported 'to have con'ducted ./himself ' with great gallantry on the occasion of the collision between that ci-Oiser < and the , American cruiser St. -Paul, was formerly commander of the Eftrvalus, •on the Australian station. He i«. married to a daughter of Sir Thomas :\e\ ii Fitzgerald, of Melbourne. Mr. Ivor Evans, of Briscoe and Co., Li;touted, who hag. been transferred to ,the Jinn's office in Melbourne, as managing director, was presented with a photo- • graphic shield, lust evening by the em- 1 ' ployees of the local branch. Mr. W. . • Markinan, who made the presentation, re- ; ferred to the good . feeling which had always! existed between the recipient and those under him during his seven years' stay in Auckland, and "Wished him every ... "success.- in the future. Mr. Evans suit- ' ably responded. . . • ■, . -