PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13136, 21 November 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Lady PJunket, Lady Kathleen Plunket, Lady M'C«nncll,'.tbe Hon. Ehoda Hanbury Tracey, Major XjoweU;. and Captain .Braithwaite -were passengersjo Auckland-yesterday by the Zealandia, from.'Sydney. At'v mooting; .of the Otago Lawn Tennis Association last evening Mr' W. H. Irvine was appointed _ secretary, vice Mr Guy Graham, who has accepted a. position in Hawke's Bay. 1 A Wellington wire states that Mr E. J. M. D. Walmsley, chief clerk in tho Land and Income, Tax "Department, has been appointed Deputy: Commissioner of Taxes. Mr' ,Biixton (chicf traffic manager for the colofiy), Mr. A; Grant (traffic superintendent), -arid. Messrs'-Piper and Whitcomhe (traffic managers respectively for the Inveroargill and Ch'ristchurch- districts) arc at present in Dtutedin holding a conference on purely departomental affairs; . '' The death is recorded at Orepuki on Thursday of Mr J. P. .Young, a very old resident. For many years he noted as mining agent, and -frequently appeaied as advocate in the Riverton Warden's Court. Leaving Australia in 1853, he came over'to Now Zealand and started farming ~at Gummie's Bush in 1860, leaving again in .1861 to. start storekeeping at Gabriel's Gully, 'during the time of the gold rush, He afterwards., Went to Western Tasmania during 1891, and returned to Orepuki in 1894, and went into business as a storekeeper, in which he was occupied up to the time of his death. He was iri ; his seventy-first year. •