PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 54

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss Flux, of the Petone School, ha* been transferred to the teaching staff of the Mount Cook Infants’ School.

The Wellington office of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., has been advised by cable of the death of Mr James Ait ken, director of the company at Melbourne. On leaving Napier to take up his residence in Christchurch, Mr Thomas Morrison, for many years a member of the Parliamentary press gallery, was presented with a purse of sovereigns.

\( The Rev. F. W. Rowlands ahd Mrs Rowlands, of Nelson, will leave Wellington on the 2nd prox., on route to Sydney, to join the Orotava to England.

/The death has occurred at Clarksville (in southern Otago) of Air Henry Clark, aged eighty-five years. Deceased was formerly a member of the Otago Education and Land Boards.

Mr Leslie Reynolds, of the Railway Department, Christchurch, has been appointed out of eight applicants to the position of County Engineer, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay.

Sir William Russell and Lady Russell returned to the colony by the Athenio last week. Their two daughters, who went Homo with them, will remain in England for three or four months longer, and expect to reach New Zealand- by Christmas.

Air A. R. Holdship, solicitor, of Wanganui, who was at one time a prominent figure in Wellington cricket circles —he was captain of the Wellington representative team —has decided to return to the city to practise his profession.

Mr W. Houghton, who arrived from England 'by th At heme last week, is from the London branch of the National Bank of New Zealand/ and comes to the colony as one of the bank’s inspectors. He was accompanied by Mrs Houghton and their three daugnters.

Air Richard Alitchell, cricket ooach. for Eton from 1860-1897, captain of the Oxford University Cricket Club 18631865, who died on April 19th last, aged sixty-two years, left estate of the gross value of £48,456, with net personality £41,197. Among the great cricketers who Avere formerly his pupils were B. J. T. Bosanquet, C. I. Thornton, Lord Harris, the Lyttelton brothers, and the Hon Ivo Bligh (Lord Darnley).

A Press Association message states that Mr George Faulknor, one of Napier’s early settlers, who had been in business there as a coachbuilder for nearly forty years, died on the 16th. Deceased was for many years a member of the Borough Council and of the Ilospital and Charitable Aid Boards, and of the latter bodies he was for some yeana treasurer. He was also one of the founders and a trustee of the Working Men’s Club.

There was a very large attendance at the funeral of the late Air Clement Winter, inspector of the Bank of Australasia, Avhose interment at the Karori "cemetery took place last Wednesday. The college included the principal officers of all the banks in the city, and many representative commercial men of Wellington, among Avhom tlie deceased Avas very highly esteemed. Mrs Winter has received evidences of the great respect in which her late husband was held from all parts of the Australasian colonies.

The death occurred at Dunedin on tihe 13th of Joseph Do Keong, a wellknown Chinese resident of Dunedin, at the age of seventy-one. Deceased came to New Zealand forty years ago, and entered into business in Dunedin, where he was widely respected. He married thirty-two years ago, and hiss family of three sons and three daughters are all in good positions. One son is a dentist in Timaru, and the eldest daughter is a successful teacher of music in Dunedin. Lo Keong was an elder of the Chinese Church in Walker street. Mr William.. Houghton, who arrived by the Athenic from London, to join the inspecting staff of the National Bank, entered the service of the bank in London more than twenty years ago. He was appointed to the colonial staff in 1889; but after several years of colonial experience, his services were again required in London, and he returned to England in 1896. Mr Houghton is well known to large numbers of colonials who have visited London, and he has many friends to welcome him back to New Zealand.

>xMiss Gertie Campion, at one time a member' of Pollard’s Opera Company in New Zealand, who contracted consumption in South Africa, and for a couple of years had been incapacitated in Johannesburg, was a passenger from Capetown to Hobart by the Athenic, transhipping at the latter port for Melbourne. Miss Campion was vs ry bad indeed. She spent on an average about sixteen hours a day on deck in all kinds of weather, and had her meals served on deok every day. She appeared slightly better towards the end of the voyage, and was able to walk about a little. Miss Campion was accompanied by her mother and sister (Mias K. Campion).