PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15185, 3 July 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr C. E. Adams (of the Department of Lands) is gazetted astronomical observer at Wellington, vice Mr T. King (resigned). Mr P. Hally (Conciliation Commissioner) is at present in Napier. in connection with the carpenters and 1 trawlers' disputes. The Hon. Thomas Fergus left Dunedin by tho second express on Saturday morning on an extended tour of England and the Continent. Members of the Education Board and well-wishers were present at the station to bid him a pleasant trip, Tho New Zealand Rhodes scholar, Mr A. Marshall, M.A:, son of the Rev. G. T. Marshall, of Otautau, is visiting his parents in Southland prior to his departure for Oxford, where ho will immediately tako up his residence at Baliiol College. ' The Waitahuna correspondent of the Tua-pek-a Times reports that Mr Thomas M'Kcnzie was the recipient of an oak barometer as a memento of his leng connection with-the ibaraJ, of which he had been a member sinco its inception. Mr M'Konzic's imminent marriage was the occasion of" the presentation, and in tho same connection MrM'Kcnzio and Miss Craig wore entertained Uj the Presbyterian Church choir, •when Miss Craig was presented with an armoury of kitchen utensils and a Kaiapoi rug. •Mr S. G. Millington (gaoler at H.M. .Trison, Wellington), who died on Thursday, .was a native of Denvonshire. Ho joined the Justice Department in 1878 as assistant warder at Lyttelton. He became principal warder at Mount Cook in 1882, and chief warder at Terrace Gaol in 1903. Three .years later he was transferred to New Ply. anoulh-as gaoler, and in 1908 was made manager of tho prison reformatory in.Tilat district. Mr Millington was appointed gaoler at Wellington in 1909. Ho leaves a widow and seven children. A valedictory social was given to the Rev. S.' J. Campbell at Tuatapere on Monday evening last by the Methodist congregation there. Mr Campbell has (says the Orepuki Advocate) been- in the district only somo 15 months, but ho as become widely known and_ respected. He was a meet energetic for the cause of tho Methodist Church in, which ho laboured. His power did not lio'in the mind alone, for Mr Camp•boll was a very skilled artisan, and tho church jit Tuatapere is the result of tho labours of his own hands. The late- Mr H. Wcnman, who died at Gore, luid a varied career. He and four mates camo into Wcthcrstones from Bungtown Creek in tho early sixties, having been flooded out by a waterspout on the Lammerlaw ranges. When the party dissolved ho obtained n position in Messrs Herbert and Co.'s store. His next move was to a position in the Industrial School at Caversham under Mr Titchenor, and then back to Lawrence as wardsman at" the Hospital, under Dr Nowall. He then went to Waikaka to start dredging, but this'was not a success, and latterly he leased n small section near Gore and grew vegetables. When he was resident in Wetherstones ho had (says a Tuapeka Times correspondent) a uniquo Biblo in his possession, it being in verse from Genesis to Revelations. Two of his old mates arc still alive—namely, Edwin Sawyers (in cbart;o of one of tho Harbour Board sheds) and Harry Sawyers, who is in'-Westrulia.