PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17502, 19 December 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL

A Christchurch Press Association message states that at a meeting of tho Canterbury Board of Governors yesterday afternoon Mr G. H. Mason, registrar of the college, wrote announcing his, intention to resign, and giving six months' notice. Mr Mason has been 40 years in the board's service.

A Sydney cable states that advices have been received of the death at Malta of Lady Edelino Strickland, wife of Sir Gerald Strickland (late Governor of New South Wales) and oldest daughter of Earl do la Warr.

Mr A. Stubbs, who has occupied tho position of registrar of the Supreme Court in Dunedm for a number oi years, and who has been transferred to Auckland, will leave Dunedin to-day by the Monowai for his now sphere of work. Mr A. E. Reynolds, late secretary of tho Military Service Board, has resumed Ins duties in the Justice Department, and has been appointed to the position of clerk of court at Queenstown. Mr Reynolds will leave for at an early date. Yesterday afternoon, at the oilieo of Messrs Reid and Gray, Miss M'Taggart, who is leaving the firm's employ on the eve of her approaching marriage, was made the recipient of a presentation by the linn and staff. Mr Dawe, in a few well-chosen words, on behalf of those present, wished her all joy and happiness, and Mr Garratt suitably responded on the lady's behalf. One of the latest victims of the influenza epidemic is Mr Robert P. Ormiston, who died on Monday at the ago of 31 x ears - He was the younger son of Mr James Ormiston who, before his retirement, ivas tor _ many years a chief engineer with the Union Steam Ship Company. Deceased arrived in Dunedin 15 years ago, entering tho service of Messrs Tunibull, Martin, and Co., shipowners, with whom he remained a valued servant until his death, with tho exception of a year spent on active service. He left with tho first detachment of the Rifle Brigade, and was wounded in his first engagement, against the Senussi, on Christmas Day, 1915, and was invalided homo early in the following year. He was for many years an active member and office-bearer of tho Dunedin Orphans' Club, and his cheery and unselfish disposition won him many friends. His remains were interred with military honours in the Northern Cemetery yesterday morning. At the meeting of the. board of the New Zealand Trotting Association on Tuesday night the. chairman stated that he had sent the sympathy of the board and association to the relatives of the late Mr W J. Gore, Dunedin, a former member of the association and vice-president of the conference, who had died during the epidemic. He had also sent a letter to the Dunedm Jockey Club and received a reply eulogising the lato Mr Gore for his services on behalf of the sport. Mr Selkf .moved that a motion of sympathy should bo passed and placed on the minutes, and that a further resolution should be passed extending the board's deep sympathy to the relatives of all members of the sport who had died as a result of the epidemic The motions v.erc carried in silence, members'standing. A portrait in oils of Sir John Denniston, painted by Mr W. A. Bowring, of Wellington, was unveiled at»the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Tuesday afternoon. There was a large attendance of members of the legal profession and friends of Sir John Denniston.. both of whom were present Mr S. G- Raymond, K.C., prior to the unveiling ceremony —which was performed by Mrs Raymond—referred to the part played by the Supreme Court in the life of the dominion, and paid a high tribute to the manner in which Sir John Denniston had carried out his judicial duties. It was, he said, fitting and proper that his portrait should hang on the walls of the building which had been the scene 1 of his activities for so many years. Sir John Denniston in his response, said he could conceive of nothing more agreeable or .acceptable as a recognition of his pnblic services than the form the presentation had taken. His life in the Judiciary had been very strenuous during a period of about 36 years, and in consequence he had been unable to give tho time to outside affairs that he would have wished. Outside the gift, he could only hope for fame in the law reports. He was glad to know that in, tho ordinary course of events his memory would be kept green on the walls of the building in which he had spent a great part of his life.