PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16718, 12 June 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Sir Rider llaggaul will not be able to include Duncdm m his present \is*t to tho dominion, a.s ho lea\es Auckland by the Niagai.i to-morrow.

Mr Fred Montague, fotmerlv a wellknown Dunedin citizen, died at Wellington last week. He, at one time, cwnid a ciockery business at tho coiner of Moray place and Pimces stiocl. Tho deceased had OLcn in poor health for foino time.

Mr Walter Rogers, son of Captain W. J. Rogci;, ot tho Blackball Company's Wellington staff, has been appointed diiet' engineer ot the Austialian gunboat Nu. a, employed < •> {jwrd-dnp for New Guinea and adjacent islands. Mr Rogeis smved as a junior engmeei in the Blackball Company'* boats and then went into the Giun.i tiade

'i'ho death of Air John ] Sooth, proprietor of the Turkish Baths, Sydney, is repoitcd. Deceased, who was in his cighthioth joar, wan a native* of Yorkshue, emigrated v.hon quite a yours man v to New Zealand. lie was" connected wifh the Roslyn Kaikorai Woollen MilU, and in 1873 lie went to England to pot the most modern machinery for them, ictuining with hi-> father and mother and tv.o biotheis in the ill-fated ship Surat, whieh was ■wmki.rl at tiio mouth of the C.itlins Rner, on January 1, 1874. He was one of the to ar'rhc oi the Oabiiel Gully field, and uas one ot the oiisfinal pafentees of tlio fin-t fla\ ctiippeib made in New Zealand. Air David Booth, of Hampden, is a brother, md Mi '1 hrop, d"ntist, of Roslyn, is a brother inlav of the dceoased. 110 was uncle of Ernest ("General") Booth, tho well-known ".ill Blaok" footballer.