PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18624, 4 August 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL

His Honor Mr Justice Hosting is expected to reach Dunedin from the north on Saturday evening. Mr W. Norman, the well-known starter at trotting meetings, was a passenger from the south for Christchurch yesterday. Mr W. G. De Gouchy, manager of -the Commonwealth-Dominion Shipping- •' land, was a passenger from Invercargill' yesterday, on his way to Wellington, Mr Peter Herons was a passenger by - the Lyttelton express yesterday. Mr’Her- w cua will proceed to Auckland. ; Messrs T Griffiths (fly weight), and L. M‘Donald (light-weight), who will retire- ' sent the South Island at the New Zealand championship boxing tournament at Auckland, leit for the north yesterday. They were accompanied by Messrs J. Kihnartjh and •A. Leckie, as delegate and trainer respectively. ■ il- 1 Mr A. 'G. Harmsworth, a nepheiV ’of . Lord Northdiffe, is visiting New Zealand, tie is accompanied by Captain G. A, Thomas, and k at present staying at Pohukura, in the Taihape district. J Dr T. H. A. Vahntine, Director-general of Health, has recovered from a serious illness. It is not anticipated, however, that he will be able to resume duty for some tune. The death took place in Auckland on Saturday of Mrs Samuel Barker. Deceased was born in 1850 at Uttarby, Lincolnshire, and, accompanied by her parents, the late ■ Mr and Mrs Coupland, came to New Zealand in tht ship Hanover in 1862. Is . February, 1871, Miss Coupland was- map ried to the late Mr Samuel Parker at the old Union Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, Auckland- Mr Parker died aboiifc a year ago. . ' • A Badsek (Capo Breton, Nova. Sootaa) Press Association cable message announces the death of Dr Alexander Graham Bell. - the inventor of the telephone. Dr Bell. was born in Edinburgh in 1847. Ho went to America in 1870, and became professor of vocal pnysioiogy in Boston University. ij.e patented the invention of the telephone in 18/6. He was honoured by many soientitle bodies. His publications included ■ numerous scientific monographs. His horn® was in Washington. Mrs Ellen Reardon, 89 years, of age, and an old oolomst, died on Saturday at . her residence, Gratton road, Auckland. Do*, ceased was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1832, and arrived here by the ship Egmoat m 1858. Her husband, Mr D. J. Reardon, died in 1904. When the Thames goldfield WB>s opened Mr and Mrs Reardon, with their family, went there, and remained until 1835, when she went to Auckland, where she resided up till her death. The death occurred early on .Tuesday morning of Mr Archibald H. Crawford, who has been a resident of Dunedin .for many years past, and who for some tune was well known in business circles. Deceased was an enthusiastic bowler, having {of a long while belonged to the Eaituna Club. He was also keenly interested in chess, taking part in some of the telegraphic chess matches. He had lately been living in retirement at St. Clair. His - r death came quite suddenly and unex- , pectedly, the cause being heart _ failure. He was twice married, and is survived: by. his , wife and a young daughter. Mr James Fraser, a very old resident o? Wakatipu, died in Lake County Hospital yesterday morning (wires our Queenstown correspondent), aged 84 yean. Three weeks ago, while using an axe, it slipped and cut his foot. Blood poisoning set in later, rendering amputation of the leg i imperative. This naturally went hard with a man of his years, and l he only lasted a day or so after - the operation. Deceased came from Deeside, County Aberdeefi, Scotland, where for a time ha conducted a hostelry, which was the headquarters .<>f the gentry in the shooting season. Shortly ' j after arrival in New Zealand he settled at Arrowtown, where he- was storeman for tiie late Wm. Paterson, and subsequently for the late Robert Pritchard. Later be s entered the employ of the late Mrs Bond, then proprietress of the Ballarat Hotel. He came to Queenstown with her when > she took over the Mountaineer Hotel, and remained with her for close-on 20 years, and subsequently became manager of ISA- | ardt’s Hotel garden for a time. Then “lie I went on lo Mr Peter Reid’s farm at lower ' Shotover. where ho has been for oyer 20 rears. Mr Fraser was of a type knbwp .as i th-* old school.,, He was thoroughly ’ hpright, conscientious, and industrious, and '4 always a faithful servant. T*b was a mat) “3 of more than averece intelligence, ofkeep nercentinn and h<Vhlv respected., He 3 tnined ah his faculties un to the last, and' never lost interest in affaire at Home «nd -./a abroad, despite advanced yeoat > •