PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14089, 18 December 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. V. Wood lias reoeived word -that 119 has passed tho first section of the luw .profcssionaJ examination. Messrs W. A. Bodkin and A. C. Smith have passed tho second suction.

11l- l''airchild, son of the Into Captain Fsiirchild, has resigned' the position o£ accountant to iho Eitstom Extension Cable Company at Hongkong. Mr Fairchild is at present on a. visit to Wellington. The Rev. A. Allen, tho newly-appointed minister for the St. Hilda Mbthodist Church, arrives by express to-day. It ia understood that Mr Arthur Stubbs, deputy-registrar of tho Supreme Court at Dunedin, is to be transferred to Wellington, replacing Mr W. 11. Hawkins, who hag b«u appointed registrar at Dunedin. Th© members! of tho legal profession intend to niuke a presentation to Air Hawkina Iwfotu he IciITCS.

As tho non-inclusion of Colin Gilray in tho Oxford University Rugby Football team for tho year lias excited some .surprise in Dunedin, and was -referred to at the breakup of the Otago Boys' High School, we arc aatfoorised to trtato that for aomo time prior to Iho despatch of tho last mail from Homo lie was iucapaoitatod from playing a3 tho result of an accident in tho match in which no played for the London Scottish, ioam, and Hub ho vms oonsequontly obliged to decline invitations to play -for tho University team, iortuuutoly, the accident, although severe onough to disqualify him temporarily lor fo.otball, lias not interfered with the discharge of his other duties as aib Oxford student.

There sailed yesterday by the Tongariro it r ) ?, ron '' 1U Fjsseix > Kigland, Mr and Alts John Cross, who havo boon for tho test JO years, readout in Dnnedin, and 18 years of that time in business in Kensington. Mi and Mrs Gross leave to end their days in their native tov/n. Mr Cross served 23 vcars ill i Tn. Arßly in <ho 18th Irish, Ist Battalion, and wag wroeked at ™'" 1,1 J 835 . Imi dec! in India 011 tho jl P cc ? m !* r ' 18,57,I 8 , 57, wncre 1,0 served 10 yearg n the Indian Mutiny in tjie reserve forces lor tho last .11 years Mr Cross has drawn an Imperial ,wMicm of is a day, and during Ins 30 years m Diracdin has nfever been ono (lay out of work.

On Friday evening about 50 residents of tlio Upper G'lutha district met nt Tarras to say farowel to Mr and Mre John M'Kae who have disposed of their property and are leaving for other part., Mr M'Rae was presented with a handsome K old albert and pendant, <md, on behalf of Mrs M'Rac, with a silver iCit and' coffee service.