PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13996, 31 August 1907, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Mrs Emtio Forguson, of this city, and Mr Gerald Ferguson will • lcavo Dunedin ear"y' in September for England, wlierc the latter will enter, one of the ancient universities, Di Lindo Ferguson will remain hero until ho leaves to attend the Medical Congress in Australia next autumn, and wi'l thereafter prcceed on to Great Britain for a chort holiday. According to latest advices Mr John Fuller, Jim., is at present in Chicago, tie leaves San Francisco for Japan on September 11, and is expected to reaeli Sydney about Ist Beoeinber. Ho wjll. probably be back in Dunedin about the end of the third week in December. Mr J. Kay railway coaching foreman nt Oamaru, aud at one time a well-known guard on the Dunedm section, will shorty rctuo on superannuation Tho ttansfei of Sergeant Mullany, of Port Chalmers, to Kaugiora, notified in yesfe" dajs issue, Ins been concellcd, and (tie Intimation has been received that Mr A C Palmer (son of Air Palmer, of Sf Clair)" who ~ studying medicine at tho London Hospita, has passed the intermediate examf 3 JPorts has evidonl/y „ 0 t intericred tnth Mr Pawner's studies. Mr and Mrs George Barclay left PaW i" 1 the north by (] le first express oa luesday. 'ihey were accorded a hearty sendoff by a largo number of friends Ifc Cameron, who succeeds Mr Barclay «, Tho many friends of Mr and Mrs A f ana now of Frmlvale, California will hL ton H, joined the tforih S^M^ in 18,.l and succeed <w aiu M " ln ?° convmand of the complyln 1903,' " A. G Steph en 3 formerly editor of the "Red l"l„ ln , tho J3ul:etin . u « awepted an in the editorial staff ofiheVel lington Post. Mr Stephens has lonT taken one of the cons.demt.ions which has wished with him an making the change 7s •thatl obeta ' cfld^^ebe.ul t „f (3' ?• £• } loane y< sktionmaster at Clin, on, rto has boon transferred lo Bitafc «. presented with a twoUing-bag and R wX w «. luring, wloMnade- the presentation nvMooney's'departure. i™pi« On the occasion of his departure from Gore where he has lived for the -'past 1I veaTs' Mr George Matron *«■*£Vw*M ad.es andgentlemen at a < farewellL HU AWshm the Mayor (Mr A. A. MacGibboi) presided, and presented Mr Mathoson with a gold sovereign case as a token' of tl lo esteem , n which ho was held by tho citizen, tw ,e 'n. P 0 ' memb f s ot Citizens' Tennis Club presented him with a gold albert.and groanstone pendant Mr Alesander Bobb, one of the best-known settlers of tflo poverty Bay district, died last week at Auckland. Mr JRobb first loaded at Gwbonio in 1861. During tho troubles with the Maoris in t,h o eighties Mr Bobb , directed the transport of ammunition rnd ' sujjphes fo the troops, and in this work distinguished himself by bis bravery. On one occasion he ; 'saved tho life of a medical student who hud .gone to the fwnt, and but ' for him would havo perished in the snow pn the rough country through which tho troops' were operating.