PERSONAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10645, 20 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr jl D'. Hall, a son of the late Sir John Hall, and Chairman of the Christ- ' cttrrchsFire Board, in response to a- reqjlisition to stand for the Christclmrch has replied regretting Ids in-■afeili'ty-to'comply with the request on .aeeolint of business engagements, and the tfact that he is already engaged on as'-flUfpiber-of and semi 7 public bodies. -It is understood that Mr Hall will-jprobably be a. candidate for one of -the; Canterbury electorates at the next generaL election. ; Tie-, late Francis A. Little, whose' death .was recorded in our columns last, ejeening-j was '«< colonist of very long t standing-(says the Daily Times). ; Born' afr : "Walworth, Surrey, in 1827, he came; to with his parents in 1835,' thptfamily.settling at Launcestou. Ho rebeiy.«d his education at the-then.well-' kjidwii »schpoL kept-by the' Rey. Mr Brice, arid- among his varied recollectinhs of those days the personality of Sir: Franklin,"'as Governor of Van Die-' Afeh'sLand, was readily recalled..; yVith h|s- father -the deceased subsequently -fettled, in Melbourne at a~time, when. was leaping into being aiid* wmerethey were engaged in a; large wejj, .-having-a line of vessels employed coastal and intercolonial ,trade, J •apd^taking-important contracts in con-; neption-with-the mining centres, then busily, developing. Deceased jvisited; Auckland in 1951, but did not come per-; rii'ahently to New Zealand till 1863, in,' wfcJcbVyear he settled in Duned|u;-bisi MtJier, -the late Thomas Little,- rfnd his-: brother. Mr S. 11.. Little, now of _Wai-; karey and for many yearscvassociated- 1 ; wph/the ibcal firm of Neill-and Co.,r having reached here'at a slightly earlier

"dfl'tei After-his arrival in Dunedkn. deefeased entered the firm of M'Landress, Hebburn, and Co., and in 1874 entered mt{> partnership with the late Colman Jjjjrke. l For many years past the late Mr Little lived a'very Tetired life. It isT'bf interest to recall the fact that he' was one of the very early contributors ip'the commercial columns of the Otago jjaiiy Times. He was a man of intellectual" and cultured mind, and liiicomniohly well read, He leaves three sons and seven daughters, one of whom was' Mrs R. G. Hewat, of Oamaru. His wife predeceased him by nearly thiee years. Mr Eustace Lane, the repiesentative of. the Grown Tenants on the Land' Board, announces himself as a candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat at the next election. He will stand in the Independent-Labor interest.