PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15384, 22 February 1912, Page 8

PERSONAL

Miss 11. Woodlioiiso Ims received intimalion that jJui lias obtained tho 11 A. decree. .Mi- l'urr has received intimation that ho lias |Whsscd the final examination for iho U.A. ilogitx», And Is;w Ixxmi awarded a xmior Miliolaraliip in mental so.iuiiee. Mr Horace Kawcntt, of lianfttrly School, ha;i received intimation thai lie has passed the examination entitling him to u It certificate. The liov. I). 11. M'Xmr, in a reccnl letter, rnfow lo n Chinese who was well known at Roxburgh ;uul Alexandra. Ho "At K(i Tmig otio market (Lav, old Yowir Wing's son o.uito to »*•« inc. He say.-, hi> father died on iho first day of tho seventh moon —August. 13. Tlicmi old men seldom live long alter returning from Now Zealand." Mifr Cissin Skmoy, SLA., L.A.fl. (in religion, Sisto Mary Philip), ntado Imr profession Lit Uio ciuipol of tlio Sisters of Mravy, South Diuiedm, on Tuesday, and Mis; Mflggio IkxitJt lin mligioti, Sinter Alovsius) was receivod. lliahop Yerdon officiated, assistod by tlio Rev. Father Dolanv. Mr John Hrnoke, slorotnan nl. the Dimedin railwuv foods sheds, on Ileitis transforrvd to tlio yard, was presents! witli a brief Hi(r and ti ease of safety razors by tlio auxiliary employee-, lo mark their appreciation of hi» courtesy and consideration. extending over a ntHiiher of years. Mr Ooorpo Dry made the premutation. Mr Hrooko fittingly responded. The Oatnaru Mail reports the death of Mr Alexander Sim, of TulKinett,. Herbert. Mr Sim was one of North 111."tali's oldrtit ve.-iiiloiila, lio having Imvii a Mttlcr for over 50 years, flo was Itorn in Perthshire in 16?5. and fcutdod at I'ort Chalmers from tlio ship Jura in 1858. Sir Sim. who lias been oonmvtwl with Oepopo sinco January, 1350, spent tJn> first 25 yrnw of his life in New Zealand in station work. Mr Sim was married in 1852 to a daughter of the lale Sir John C-aiupboll. of Tnllymett, parish of l.ocieran. IVrthshiro. Sirs Sim pivdecoased her huslniud in 1897. He is survived by two sons ai d one daughter. Mr Daniel Soollv passed mvav at tilio residence of his sou-inl;iiv, Mr Titos, (!tvdc>v. Sy»\Y st-!vet, on 'llmtvday. at the a.S« of ?J ytsu>. Mr Soolly. who was lirrrn in lrelml, eanio to Vieloria in 1861, and followed mining in that State, lint tho lrlowitiL' (unmiits of tlio Dniu-itait causal him to ship to Now Zealand. where lie and tho lato (ieorsv M. .Starkey were mates. Thev exploited the Slolyneux, l'ox'.-. and the Nevis, and later he and the late Mr Starkev commenced business as butchers, lukcis, storekeeper,, and hntelkcepors at Nevis, They lvuijht tlio Kawwau lloiel in Cromwell, ;nnl Sir !?larkey. who hail reivntlv married. shifted to Ctviimvoll. Mr Soollv remaining in eh.irjro of the Nevis Inisincs. Alwut the year 1872 an epidcaiic of diphtheria made its nppeararee in ihe Cromwell district, with deadly results, njid unionist others of its victims were Mrs Evilly and li\V om of six of tlwir children, and in (lit-')H-r.\tion tlio lato Sirs Starkey eiuiie to ilic ivscuc and took ittrav tju; Uihy. whom she rear.si, ami it afterwards proved a great comfort to her in lier declining years. Messrs Soollv .-.ml Siarkev UMicht tho Cromwell Hotel, whetv Mr Starkey Uvamo matter uxl Mr Stilly the Kaworau lloUj. 'lliev aftorwanls slttiUxl to luvereardll. but tJ'.o rx>!il fever apiin .cot into Sir Jvolly's veins, aial lie asain tri<v| Ins luek in the \\'akai.i|iu district, with vuriod stiwess ;uul later ho took up his riwdonco at Wintoit wkh his old and true friends, the Starkeys. who pre-iltMiviofHl him. and when tlio family removed Kink to lnveivaiyill he nl;o wont. Sir isoolly w-as a man of iWirini; n,iian\ ittul will Iv greatly I>j- a larire ciivle (if friends in lnverva.r,;ill. A llokitika message n-(wrt< tiuit ut 'ho Titoalrv last nii:iit ti«* snpiviners of Sir H L. iji tho nxont {.-enerol el.xHion campaign ;L-sein!i!<sl Mr Ihe of in.il.iu-: him a presentation The .Mayor pwidixi ovw llv naiJiorim:. which was vei-v 'I he amount 10 Mr Slicho! £??0. Mr Michel contested the West land teat wit'i the sitt-i:!.- momiier. .Mr T. K. Y. SetKlon