PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16989, 27 April 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A cablegram from Sydney announces tho death of the Hon. Henry Carey Dangar, M.L.C., a prominent pastoralist and horso breeder. Miss Norali Malone, daughter of the late Colonel Malone, of Taranaki, who has been in London for the past two years, has now accepted an appointment on the staff of the National Hank of Now Zealand's London office. Sir C. Arthur Pearson, chairman of the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors' Care Committee. mentions in a letter, dated tho 9th March, and received by us last night, that Mr Clutha Mackenzie, who had his sight totally destroyed at Gallipoli, was leaving England within a week for a trip to New Zealand, and that he should arrive here a week or so after the reeeint of that letter. Sir Arthur Pearson adds that Mr Mackenzie had been living with him since ho left hospital, and that no one could have taken in a more manly and courageous spirit the blow which had fallen on him. .One of the most prominent personalities in the Lower Mataura district during the p:>st half-century passed away on Sunday morning—Mr James Cusbnie, sen., for many years owner of " Springfield" farm, on Wyndham Uidges, and during thft past 13 years an l.i.p. tenant on the Edendala State Settlement.. Deceased took a keen interest in public matters (says the Southland News). He was an enthusiastic member of the Liberal Party, an ardent member of the Ploughing Association from its inception, and of the A. and P. Society. He was a member and some time chairman of the historic Mimihau School Committee, that being the'first district school. He was for many years a director of tho Wyndham Dairy Factory Company. It was mainly owing to his exertions that tho soldiers' monument at Edendalo was erected.