PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr E. Percy Xeale hae received iritiaiiation that he lias passed a section of the examination for the degree of bachelor of laws.

Mr Wm. Pai-i'oll dropped dead last evening m h;t> confectionery enop iu Will is street (says a Prtss Association message- from Wellington). Heart disesac was the cause. .Mr l'air.ell was about 50 years of ago, and lor some time lived in Uisbornc. Afterwards lie kept an liotol for some years in Xa.pier. Ho loaves a widow, but no family.

At the meeting of the Press Association yesterday (a New Plymouth message'states) Mr U. Fenwick, of tho Otago Daily Times, was elected chairman, and Air P. Selig, of the Christchurch Press, vice-president;

Mr Stewart M'Donald, ton of ex-Pilot M'lJonald, has been .appointed clerk of the -Magistrate's Court at Port Chalmers, in succession tv; Mr G. G. Chisholm.

The appointment is announced in tho Gazette (a Press Association message states) of Mr John W. Collins, present chief clerk of the Labour Department, as deputy registrar of industrial unions.

Mr Rose, manager of the Government poultry larm at Burnhatn, \& at present relicv.ng at the Milton poultry farm, whilst the malinger (Mr H. Kitto) is away on holiday.

Chief inspector Richardson is to proceed to Christchurch next week to confer with Mr lloyd Uarlick and Chief Inspector Brock on tho question of physical instruction in the Training Collages in Dunedin and Christchurch.

An old identity of the Taranaki district passed away at New Plymouth on AVednesday (savs our Xew Plymouth correspondent) in "the person of Mrs James Hine, sen., who hud attained the age of 77 years. She arrived in Xew Zealand by the sailing ship Wanganui in 1879, and settled in Tikorangi about 10 or 12 years ago.' Mrs Hine went to live in retirement at New Plymouth. Mr J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, is a member of the bereaved family.

A pleasing function took place at a meeting directors of the Vinegar Hill Co., St. Bathans, when one of the members (Mr Thomas Hughes), who is leaving the district to take up his residence at Roxburgh, was presented by his co-directors with a handsome silver-rnountod pipe. Air M'Coiuiochie, in making the presentation, eulogised Mr Hughes's services to the company, of which he has been a director since its inception, and. in bidding him au revoir, hoped that he would long live to enjoy gcod health and to smoke the piy> of peace and contentment. Messrs E. and T. Morgan and, X. Xieolson also spoke in appreciative terms of Mr Hughes, and expressed a keen desire to see him. again at their future meetings. Mr Hughes, in replying, thanked his colleagues for their kindly; thoughtfulness, and said that, although lie was'leaving the district, it gave him great pleasure to think he was still retaining his connection with the company, whose affairs, he considered, were left in most capable hands.