PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17066, 26 July 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. E. Eeynolds has left Dunedin on/f a visit to Australia. A* The personnel of the Labour Bills ConPp mittee set up by the House of trves on Friday is Messrs Massey, o £• 5-.Field. Glover, Hmdmareh. Okeyv?? -S ' Veitch > Walker, and Wilkinson. News has been received by cable that " MrBS at -U-ahna, of Dunedin, who sailed New Zealand with the Twenty-first forcements as T.M.O.A. field secretary, waa'fs slightly wounded in the shoulder on July-fe

• A Nelson Press Association message that the Bishop of Nelson (the Right \\. O. badher) received intimation yesterdaySf tnat ne had been unanimously elected-S liishop of Gippsland, "Victoria. He is tak-' : % ing time to consider his decision. Dr her, who then held a Melbourne cure, was o elected Bishop of Nelson in 1912. . - |-i A very highly respected resident iof # Dunedin (Mrs Eliza Ann Foster) passediaway at her residence, Clyde street, Tuesday, in her 100 th year. Deceased was born in Oornwall on June 13, 1818, and, withM; her late husband (Mr H. A; Foster) their young son (Mr H. C. Foster), oamesS out to New Zealand b-" the ship Mary, land- 'M in : g at Port Chalmers in 1849. Mr and Mrs# Foster/ resided for about a year at GreenM Island, and in the very early days • lived for some time in Manse street. The family S-I then remotved to Clyde street, where the de- M ceased had lived for the past 35 years. The [M deceased had never taken an active in public life, but she was widely knownfH as a very charitable woman. She had en-*SS joyed splendid health practically all her lrfe,*Sf and, with the exception of one short to Wellington, had never been away from-* Dunedin from the day she landed. She:* was the mother of three children, two off? whom are still living—namely, Mr H. Qjl Foster (of Foster and Jones, builders) and® Mrs C. E. George, The descendants of family consist of 18 grandchildren and 27#f great-grandchildren. One grandson poral Chris. George) is now in the firing line&y in France; and another grandson (Sergeantv'S A. A: George) died as the result of woundsTw received in the heavy fighting at Gillipoli'i# m August, 1915. Both these lads left Zealand with the Main Body of the ditionary Force. '~^f The members of tho Otogo and Fire UnderwritaLTs' Association met in HHbM association's rooms on Monday aiternoon ti&M bid farewell to Mr J. R. Cameron, of .the'fl. United Insurance Company, on his proinotM tion to take u-p tho management of Canterbury; branch of the company. - Th©S| chairman, in presenting,Mr Cameron with aft* pooknt book and 1 Morris chair, paid a hig&LfS tribute to the valuable services which he hadSt rendered for ja number of years as a mem-;!! ber of the committee of the association to the helpfulness and good fellowship ifchafc:«£ had endeared him to his fellow underwTitatsjfjf The representatives present all testified to'S Mr Cameron'e business ability, and courtesy, and wished hm* and Mnprit Cameron future happiness and prosperity. Ssf