PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17067, 27 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL

A Press Associatuon cable. message from Berne stotes that Herr Basserman. Leader rv . German National Liberals, is dead t London correspondent, writing on June 12 states that Second Lieutfnant Fabian P Reeves.. R.N.A.S., oaly Mr and Mrs W. PemLer Beeves. wJ on tnat day reported missing. Sir Ernest Rutherford is m America on a scientific mission (says our London co r . respondent). Ho will be there probabfv until the beginning of August. * rooaoi y Mr W T Young, general secretary of the federated Seamen's Union, will Toave Wei Ungton this evening, on a visit to Dunedin in connection with union business. Our Wellington correspondent states that of M-P D W °T e an ?°? n< !S? *fe. a PP°intment ot SSIt K H. Lough to the Dunedin South Licensmg Committee. n Mr F. B. Bolt, district manager of the Government L.fe Insurance Department at Dunedin, has been transferred on promotion to Wellington, and Mr G. A. Noble-Camp beU, manager of the Napier branch has been appointed district manager at Inver

Jhu n h ?f occnrr ed of the Maori chief Meha Te Moananui, at the age rf! 92. years. He belonged to the NgatiTawhaki tribe and hod lived in the Paeroa dStrkt for about 70 years. The old chiof of those who was mterested hx the land of rhames before it was proclaimed a gold? Sin™ te ' Wlth Other dlicfs ' Mr Frank J. Barton, circus proprietor passed away at Epsom. Auckland two sons. He was very successful in t-ho enrcus business. His show always" traveled by road and for the last five yeanT had hn^ m ™r, Z r laDd - , He own °, t 1 es ' aDd llad several racing. . Mr Harry Gullett, a wen-known Sydnev ionrnalßL who is in England as a prWate in the Australian Artillery, is gourn- S France to assist Captain Bean office correspondent for Australia, for three months. Afterwards ho will ffo to Lypt as official correspondent for tho Li S ht The Australian War Records Department is eecnrnw &r Ernest Sbacklcton's paotographer (Mr Hurley) for threoloortS i m France. Mr Hr-lcy intends to colour process. The death of Mr Donald Macdonald a veteran mmer of Sou*h Hokitika. took place* at the WestJand Hospital on Saturday The deoctsed, who was a netito of Inverncsa Scotland, and had reached the age of Gi years, had been a resident- of tliP bor .1 o pi t for a great many rears and was deservedly respected by a w=de 'circle of friends. Ho a siap-le iran, and was a veteran of the Criueiui -v a-

Thc Mint is often worked at a loss but ite avorago annual profit runs into thousands