PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL

An Auckland telegram jumotmces thd death of Mr W. P. Mulgan, for some years chief engineer of the Blackball Ooal Com-* pany's fleet. Mr W. H. Hamer, engineer to the. Auckland Harbour Board, has left cm a trip to 1 England. Ho expects to bo absent for several months. Mr A, W. Cave, well known in sporting circles, and a very old settler in the Wairarapa, died on Sunday, in his eightieth < year (state* a Mafitcrton Press Association telegram). Mr N. Y. Dyott, inspector of 'factories ati Inveroargill, has been appointed third inspector of factories at Ohristchurch, in placet of Mr J. C. Coddington, who has been pro moted to Oamaru. Mr H. Cameron, stationmaster at Waimahaka (Southland), has been appointed stationmaster at Rangiora. The O-der of the British Empire has been conferred on Major 8. J. Bolton, formerly] engaged in the accountants' branch of the , General Post Office, Wellington. He left New Zealand with the 2nd Reinforcements, aid is still in London engaged on military duties. Mr C. A. Piper has retired from the' railway sei\ice, with which he has been connected for nearly 50 years.. Prior to his lo.ivinjr he was tireßented by the General •; Manager (Mr R: W. M*Yilly), on behalf of the combined heads of branohes and i their staffs, with a token of esteem and appreciation. • Mi?s Jane Mander, daughter of Mr P. M. , Mander MP. for Marsden, has just had published a book entitled "The Story °f. a New Zealand River." Miss Mander originally belonged to New Zealand, but has dona ; newspaper work in Sydney, and for the : past t iA'o yearj has been a prominent! . worker for the U.S.A. Red Cross.' A Perth cablegram announces the' death , of Sir Edward' A. Stone, Lieutenant-Gover-nor of Westralia since ISO 6, at the age of 76. He was called to the bar in. Perth in 1865, and, after, being clerk to the,l<egisla.- '■! tive Council and Acting Attorney-generaL hc was made a puisne judge in Ifio'k ana was Chief Justice of Westralia from 1901-05. There passed away at Oamaru onSaturday, after a short illness, Mr Walter John Bowden Radford, at the age of 60 (saya the Oamaru Mn.il). """Mr Radford had for many years held the position _ of ohief porter on the Oamaru railway station, whera is had been a. well-known figure to all, railway travellers. »Ho leaves ■ four daughters, all in Oamaru, a son in the railway service at Wangasnui, and a'Widowto mourn their loss. The late Mr'Radford also lost a son at the front. The Rev. S. H. Peryman, who is leaving!. the pastorate of the Methodist Chinch ati Port Chalmers, was tendered a* send-ofE social by' his congregation yesterday evening. Mr Peryman is being transferred _ tol Carterton. He has won high esteem during' his four years' stay at Pert Chalmers, ana deep regret was expressed at his leaving. In addition to his pastoral work, he has taken an active part in connection with the no-lic.;nse movement. The removal is on account of the impaired health of Mis Peryman, whosa leaving is also deeply .regretted. She is editor of t.ne temperance paper, tha White Ribbon. The local ministers participated in the send-off. _ Mr Peryman was presented with a travelling rug, Mra Pery* man wifc : i a handbag, Miss Peryman. with> a. mirror, and Miss Bessie with a hfuxibagj The best wishes accompanied the presents. > The death is announced of Mr OhrisWtoher Basstian, one of tho finest of Southland's early residents, aged 69 years. Born at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1851, he arrived at Tnveroargill in 1870. His_ first activities were on his father's station, Dunrobin; and in 1874 he joined the firm of Joha M'Pherson and Co., merchants, Tnveroargill. Later in the seventies ho launched into business on his own account, becomingl lessee of the Invercargill jetty, which at that time was ft busy quarter. He; waa also carrying contractor to the Railway Department Later ho joined the Unionl Steam Ship Company as manager of the Bluff branch, and was active in the solution of • tho 1880 strike at the port. A few years later ho went into partnership with IVIr A. A. Gella'tly .in a stock and station'; agency business. Mr Basstian took ft lively ' interest in all public and sarvedl a term in Iho Borough OounciL He ■fras also <1 keen sportsman, being, a foundation " member of the Southland Amateur Athletic Association, (Southland Amateur Rowimr Association* Invercaxgill; Rpwing Club (1875). InvercartriH Gymnasium, etc. Volunteering nlso claimed his enthusiastic spirit as quartermaster-sergeant inl; the original lovercargill Artillery, subsequentlv desitmated the G _ Battery, and he jwrticipated in the formation of the Invcrcargill Engineers' Corjw.' son,

Mr. B. C. Basstla.n,. is_ engineer for the';l Southland County Council. - I