PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr S. C. Phillips, ex-gaoler at Dune<3in,'le{k yesterday afternoon for a trip to the HomeCountey. Mr Phillips, who is accompanied by Mis Phillips, will return to Dunsdin. before the end of tho year. It is understood that Milton's old respected stationmaster. Mr Gibb, wbo has been connccted with the Now Zealand Eailway Department for many years, has applied to the Government for permission to retire irom the railway service on his pension. ' At the conclusion of the general business at last night's meeting of tho 'West Harbour Borough Council, Councillor Rosa, on behalf of himself and brother councillors, all of whom had appended their signatures to the document, presentee! a requisition to the Mayor (Mr i?. G. Cray) asking him to allow himself • to be nominated to the office of mayor foE arother 'term. Tho requisition stated that it was considered only fair that the many worka which had been initiated in the borough bj; Mr Cray should bo finished under his management.-- Mr Cray said he had much pleasure in actffcding to the request, and expressed his gratification at receiving such a requisition. He had done his best -in the interests of the borough as a whole, and had always received the assistance of the council. He-might s&jl .that tho borough was now better of! than it had ever been in respect to its finances. Mr E. M. Moss, lata owner and master of the ferry steamer Tarewai, whose funeral took place at tho Southern Cemetery yesterday (Tuesday), was the son of a Congregational minister in the neighbourhood of London. After serving an apprenticeship to tho engineering he came out to Australia in the early sixties, thence on to this colony, taking part in the Maori War under the redoubtable Yon Tempsky, and afterwards under Colonel Whitmore. 'For some years he was engineer of one of the Harbour Board dredges here. About 12 or-14 years ago he started tho Portobello-Port Chalmers ferry, and for the past few years kept it going under very adverse circumstances. Portobello residents will always remember his indomitable • pluck and energy, -his ever readiness to cross the harbour at all hours, night or day, for medical attendance. With school picnics, church socials, etc., he was ever generous and' 1 obliging. For the last 12 months or so illhealth kept him at home, his son taking his place, on the steamer. He leaves a widow and two young children, his family by hia tot wife being all grown up and settled.

— No lesa than £3000 was paid at Christie's, in London, for a standing salt-cellar, j It is tiie finest known of its kind, and dates from the time of Elizabeth. Of silver-gilti and rock crystal, bearing thei London hallmark of 1577, caoh of its throe parts is engraved, embossed, and moulded with masterly precision and a fine sense of bo&uty. Each . part is in tho finest state of preservation. Tho salt-cellar turns tho scale at about 9oz \ Sdwt—this, after allowing _ for the rocfc /" crystal. On this basis it realised nearly £325 \ ; pes ounoo, exceeding all former records,