PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 22

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Sutton, at present assistant all the Karoii School, has been appointed assistant at Masterton.

The Education Board on Thursday approved the nomination of Mr E. West to fce School Commissioner at Rakanui, where the householders failed to elect a committee.

The Education Board on Thursday accepted the resignations of Miss Olive Dorset, assistant at Carterton, and Mr R. S. Gilmour, head teacher at Wairere.

Mr James Stewart, railway stationmaster at Stratford for the past three years has been transferred to Mosgiel. On Wednesday evening the Mayor (Mr N. J. King), on behalf of the residents, presented Mr Stewart with an address.

The death has occurred at Dunedin of Mr Peter Tressider, who was for upwards of thirty years connected with the Otago Lands Office, and recently chairman of the Benevolent Trustees.

News was received last week that Mr H. de V. Gilbert, of the Union Company’s staff at Sydney, died through hemorrhage of the brain. Death occurred while he was in his hath. The body is to be brought to Wellington for interment.

Mr Charles Boosey, head of the wellknown London firm of music publishers and instrument-makers, died at Bickley (England) on July 24th. The ballad concerts, for so long conducted at St. James’s Hall, London, were initiated by deceased’s late brother, Mr John Boosey.

Amongst the appointments notified in last week’s “Gazette” are the following:—Mr George William Hulme, to be registrar for the electoral district-, of Avon ; Mr Joseph William Salmon, to be registrar for Newtown ; Mr Richard Mothes, for Hutt; Mr Gilbert Burness Bums, for Taieri; and Mr James Gartside Culpan, for Eden. Mr W. E. Benda-11, who- is leaving the employ of Messrs Badham and Biss, to take up the secretaryship of the New Zealand Dairy Union at Palmerston North, and Mr J. Fleming, who is leaving the same firm to become secretary \ to Messrs Turnbull and Jones, were entertained at luncheon by the firm on the 29th nit. The whole staff was present.

News has been received by cable of the death of Mr F. K. Terry (director of Gollin and Company Proprietary, Ltd., Australia, New Zealand, and London), which occurred last Wednesday in London, whither deceased proceeded a few months back under medical advice. A group of young men and women belonging to the Plymouth Brethren at Palmerston North, consisting of Misses L. Sundgren, M. Goi'don, M. M. Dunn, and Messrs E. A. Rimmer and W. Revell. have decided to take up missionary work in India. They leave Sydney by the North German Lloyd steamer Karlsruhe for Tuticorin (India) on October 14th.

The Mayor of Stratford has received from the seci-etary of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia a parchment certificate awai’ded to Mr Alexander Evetts, of Stratford, for his courageous conduct in rescuing Edward Rowan Sexton from drowning in Victoria Lake on November 10th, 1903.

Mr E. Wf/tney, manager of the National Bank of New Zealand ~at New Plymouth, has been transferred to Wellington. On Thursday afternoon he was presented by the Mayor (Mr R. Cock), on behalf of a section of the commercial community, with a gold watch and chain, as a token of the esteem in which he was held at New Plymouth. A London cablegram states that Mr Thomas Milvain, M.P. for Hampstead, has been appointed to the ancient office of Judge-Advocate-General. Mr Milvain, who is sixty-one years of age, was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1869, took silk in 1888, and was elected a Bencher of his Inn in 1893. He was chairman of the South African Compensation Commission. Mr and Mrs W. E. Bendall, wiio are leaving for Palmerston North, were entertained last Wednesday by their friends in the Seatoun district at a “social” held in the kiosk. About fifty couples were present. Mr J. L. Mackie, on behalf of the ladies, presented Mrs Bendall with a set of toilet-table ornaments, and Mr Bendall was handed a gold-mounted greenstone axe from the “Savages of Miramar.” During the evening songs were given by Mesdames Ellison and Gooder, the Misses Bentley and Messrs Mabin and Savieri. Mrs Thomas Fraser, a Wellington resident of long standing, died at her residence, Nairn street, on Wednesday morning, after a considerable period of ill-health. The deceased lady, who was sixty-six years of age, was horn in Edinburgh, and arrived in Otago over forty years ago. She had been a resident of Wellington for over twenty-five years, and was well known and highly respected by many of the oldei losidents of the city. She leaves two sons Mr Alex. Fraser (agent at Sydney for the New Zealand Pro* Association) and Mr Thomas Fraser, 01 Wellington—and four daughters