PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, 27 April 1906, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr E. E. Clowes, ol the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand, hes received intimation of Ilia admission as an associate of the ?\"ew Zealand Accountants and Auditors' Association. A London cablegram states that the hto Mr Thomas Purvis Russell (formerly of Huwke's Bay) left personalty valued (it £2i7,G77. At the annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association of Otago and Southland, held last Tuesday afternoon, Mr T. K. Harty tendered his resignation as secretary and "treasurer. The Kev. William Thomson was appointed secretary for the ensuing year, this office being in addition to his present duties as organising agent of the association. Tvlr George Thomson, of Messrs Thomson and Co., was appointed treasurer. Mr John M'Callum, late of Campbe'llown Argylc3hire, Scotland, has been elected pipemajor of the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band. Mr M'Callum is a young man, not long out from Home. He takes up the position through Pipe-major M'Oregor accepting a similar, position in the Timaru Pipe Band. A few friends of Mr A. St. J. Huddlestone, of the Bank of New South Wales, met on Wednesday evening and presented him with a travelling hag on the eve of his departure for Wellington. Sir W. Maclean made the presentation. The Oamaru Middle School Committee lias recommended Mins XL Kay, of Ivgapura, for appointment to the vacant position on the school staff. The Southland Times states that Mr L. C. Jefcoate, manager of the Invercargill branch of the Singer Manufacturing Company, has received intimation of his promotion to the position of superintendent of the Dunedin branch. The Hon. James Carroll is rapidly recovering from an attack of blood-poisoning, and expects to bo about again within a day or two. The Hev. H. B. Gray has (says a northern exchange) intimated that he intends to iMiga,

from the cliirge of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Auckland. He has received a call from the- North-East Valley Church.

A prominent citizen of New York, Mr H. Scanlon Kerr, has arrived in Wellington, in Vhe course of an extensivo tour. Ho says that the wSrld is watching Australasia' very critically to noto the results of theories whioli -have been brought into effect. While here he will collect information concerning New Zealand's experiments, industrial and otherwise.

According to a Wellington e*chang« important changes are pending in the dairy division of tho Department of' Agriculture. Mr D. Cnddio, assistant chief dairy commissioner, has been offered the Chief Dairy Comlmssionership of Victoria; and Mr Thornton, dairy grader in Auckland, has also been offered un important appointment in tho. projected Dairy Department of Victoria. It is said that the recent visit to this colony of the Hon. G. Swinburne, Victorian Minister for Agriculture, is not altogether unconnected with these, offers.

The Bruce Herald reports tho death of Mrs Charlotte Bramwell Hollick, of Milton, who died en Tuesday, 21th insf., in her .seventieth year. Tho deceased, who was' born at Oswestry. South Wales, camo to thin colony in the ship Mntoaka, which arrived at Port Chalmers on July 5, IST.. A deplorable incident occurred in connection with tho usual transhipment of passengers for Duncdiii, They were put m board the steamer of the Yarra. which collided with the Favourite in Dunedin Harbour, resulting iu the drowning i>' Rov. Mr Campbell, who was coming out as principal to Otngo High School, his wife, five children, and seven others. Miss Bramwell providentially escaped tin's disaster, consequent on her nob making the trip owing io her brother meeting her nt Port Chalmers. Sho settled in' Milton, where she lived continuously up to the time of her death. She was 'married in IBGS. and leaves a husband, one married daughter (Mrs C. Nisscn), two unmarried daughters, two married sons, and 11 grandchildren to mourn their loss.