PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14685, 19 November 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL

A Feilding message announces the death of Mr Alexander Mnckay, ex-Judgo of tho Native Lajid Court, in his seventy-sixth year.

Constable Murray, at present in ohargo at tho St. Kilda Police Station, will bo drafted to Kaitangata on the 24th inst.. and Constable Rasmusscir will tako up his duties at. St. Kilda on the same date. Mr Gordon ,1. lioid, New Zealand inspector for ihe Union Assurance- Co., and iormorly manager of the load branch, is tan? Tfl Mw * haU arriv « l «"»'» K '»- E as L evt ;"":' s ' anJ will take up his at St PU °" aml has been ;?, , hiUgß « n «tal! ■ EOCS mto raire " lcnt °» su^' m^^i^&t^^^rt la^lef t I,„ Y ca, ? A. bh-ang of Auckland, „!,„ w , B ;1 in too department at Invorwr'-'il -J tmnsfcr. by Mf " Vil "«'« Mr James Allen, M.P., arrived in T)„„. edm from Wollingwn by the first exim'ss yesterday. In his capacity as Lieutenantcolonel commnading blio Naval Artillerv it is necessary for him to put in a certain number of days in camp m each vear and the fact of tho Dunedin Navals "being in caniip at the present lime compels his presence in Dunedin. Ho returns to We). Imgkm on Monday morning. Tho death is announced of Mr RobertCaldwell one of the- best-knowu nfen * South Australia, and also well known in dago, where lie had many friends Mr Caldwell wis a Scot, and his birthplace was Ayrshire, and ho was uot onlv an admirer of Burns, but a follower iu'his poetic footsteps He was for many years prominent in political afl'fl;-, having been a member of Parliament for several constituencies, and was alio a.»,c.*perl on dairy matters.

A London message advises that the will of _tho late Rev. Bernard Wilson, Canon of Winchester, and formerly Vicar of St. John's Cathedral, Brisbane, has been sworn at £43,363 Ho has bequeathed his lands in Queensland for church purposes, and also £500 to the Brisbane Cathedral an<j £500 to Church endowment funds, and lOOgs to tho Now Guinea mission. A correspondent writes:—"Tho Dr W. Lcdingham Christie referred to in your Personal columns yesterday as having organised a special treat for the very poor of Bristo' is a native of Dunedin, and was reared in tho Waropa district. He left tho plough on liis father's farm when at the age of 17, and went direct/without any other special teaching than that which ho gavo .himself in his spare time, and took tho mastership of tlio Stony school, and attended classes at Milton under Mr W. Malcolm, then Rector of tho Tokomairiro Grammar School. Then ho was appointed assistant at Tapanni school, and studied hard and passed for matriculation at Otago University, and resolved on the study d£ medicine. Tho Medical School then was only a small affair. Ho could' not get Homo to complete his course, as Messrs Brodio, Jeffcoate, and P. A. Lindsay did, and had to wait a year for the appointment of extra professors to eomplete his third year's course. He took up the teaching profession during that period, having charge of Dipton \iehcol in Southland. He was tho first M.B. and M.D. of the New Zealand University. After practising at Outram and Milton, where his wife died, leaving him with an infant daughter, ho went to London,, and passed successively as M.U.C.S. and F.R.C.S He' then studied on tho Continent, and practised at Salisbury, finally settling down at Clifton, Bristol Ho i 6 a member of the Bristol Board of Guardians, and takes a great interest in politics, having been asked than once to contest a seat tor tho House of Commons in tho Tariff Reform interest. A few years ago he married again. His only daughter, born at Milton, is studying medicine, Prior to that, Miss Christie was at a ladies' cotlego with somo of tho daughters of our present Governor. T)t Christie imbibed a deep lovo for his profession from Professor Scott, of Otago University, and from Dr Truby King his interest in tho welfare of the young. H« thinks the waste of child life in England something appallins. Dr Christie, as a senior medical student, was also for a time

and during his college career locum wnens for Dr Roberts, in charge of tho Dunedin Hospital. Dr W. A. Fleming, now of North-East Valley, was the first student of Otago Medical School to receive tho appointment of resident house surgeon at tho Dunedin Hospital."