PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13886, 25 April 1907, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Tho Hon. ,T. B. Callaii is at present on a visit to the Clyde district. An Adelaide message states that Mrs Stead died at Meningie; aged 103 years. A Sydney message advises that Signor Iluzon has resigned I lie conduclorship of the Philharmonic and Orchestral Societies, and is rcturniug to Italy, Constable Sweeney, who lias been stationed in Timnrn lor about two years, and who was previously attached to the Dunedin and .South Dur.edin forccs, lies been transferred to Oainarn. Prior to his departure from Timaru he was presented with a goldmounted umbrella by his comrades.

An Auckland Press telegram states that Michael Swift, a settler at Wjiangapoua, died suddenly in his yard .alter driving some cows in.

Mr W. G. T. Goodman lias received notification of his election as a member of tile Institute of Civil Engineers, London. In addition to the membership of tho above body, Mr Goodman is also a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, London, and of the American Institute of Elcctrical Engineers, for which institution ha has been local honorary secretary in New Zealand for the past five years.

Mr Weddings (Acting Superintendent of Elcctr-ic Telegraph Lines) and Mr Buckley (Chief Electrician in the Post and Telegraph Department) have baen on a visit to Dunedin for the purpose of inspecting the Waipori hydraulic works.

A Press Association telegram<- from Palmcrston .North says that Magnus Fiulavson, aged 55, was found dead in fed at'his"son-in-law's rc-sidcnce yesterday morning. Finlayson was apparently in good health and spirits oil retiring the previous' night, and the cause of death is not known.

Another i»f iivo fast-diminishing band of early settlers passed away at Melbourne on the 13ili inpt. in the person of Emily Cameron, relict of John Duff, one of the first shoemakers in Dttiicdin, who cams out in the Larking in ISI9. Mrs puff came out in the Slains Castle in 1552. and was 74 years of age at the time of her death, leaving a. family— Mrs Mary Morgan (Melbourne), Donald (Duncdin), Mrs IJaul. Higgins (Jessie, Roslvn), Hugh and John (Australia), Mrs Joau Wadsworth (Port Chalmers), Allan C. (Christchurch), and William (Melbourne). Mrs Duff married again, ai\d was Mrs Thompson at the time of hor death.