PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17319, 20 May 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that a viscountcy has been conferred on Lord Wimborne, ex-Lord-lieijt-enant of Ireland. Dr Kenneth Ross will leavo Dunedin shortly on .active service on a hospital ship. Mr S. M'Curdy, of Invercargill, has been appointed assistant general secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Auckland. The Governor-general and the Countess of Liverpool are expected to arrive in Auckland and take nr. their residence at Governnjent House about tho end of this month Their Excellencies at present are at Rotorua. The death occurred recently in Now Zealand of Mrs Victor Grayson, wife of Private Victor Grayson, at one time a member of tho House of Commons. Mrs Grayson spent several months in Christchurch lu,st year. She leaves a little dauc-hter. Mrs Fred. Fryo (Dunedin), who took the principal character in Miss Lucv Oowan's comedietta which obtained first prize at the ChiTstchurch Competitions, has received tho highest commendation for her character study. The Rev. J. I. Clarke, who lias been called to tho Presbyterian Church at Waimate. was accorded a farewell at Wyndhum on Tuesday night. Addresses eulogistic of Mr Clarke's abilities as a preacher and a citizen wore delivered by the Revs. J. Pringle and 11. J. L. Goldthorpe, and several members of the congregation also spoke. A wallet containing £30 was presented bo Mr Clarke, a gold wristlet watch to Mrs Clarke, and fountain pens to Masters Knox and Douglas Clarke. The Waipori correspondent of the Tuapeka Times writes.—" Another of the band of pioneer miners, in tho person of Robert Evans, passed awav on Sunday, tho 12th '. ns t-_ Tho deceased for some time had boon jn indifferent health, but could not be induced to loave the district. He was a native of Dundee, Scotland," and in his youth took up tho occupation of fishing, from that to vessels trading in the Baltio, and latfT came to Victoria, where he took up gold mining, with varying success, at Bendigo, Ballarat, Inglewood, Mitta Mitta. and other districts. Finally he came to New Zealand, when the Dunstan rush attracted his attention. From there ho came to Waipori in the early sixties, and had been a resident here ever since. He did a lot of prospecting, and usually lived in rough, isolated pianos, but during the last 12 years he lived in a hut close to the township