PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3244, 17 May 1916, Page 61

PERSONAL ITEMS.

At a meeting of the Macandrew Road School Committed, held on the 9th, Miss Myra Quin, at present teaching at Utepopo, was appointed ninth assistant. A Wellington PreiSS Association message states that Mr T. E. Donne has been appointed to succeed Mr Wray Palliser as secretary to the High Commissioner, London. Dr Emily Siodeberg, who has been attached for the last six months to the Royal Infirmary at Sheffield, is on her way to New Zealand, via the P. and 0. route. She is expected to reach Dunedin in about three weeks' time. Mr W'illiam M'Boath, who has been very well known in business circles in Dunedin as an indent agent, died suddenly on the 9th inst. in Moray place, whilst proceeding to his office. The deceased gentleman was 73 years of age, and, although always cheerful in manner, it was known that his heart was weak, so that his death did not come altogether as a shock to his more intimate friends. Mr M'Boath was born in Scotland', but came out to this dominion while still a young man, and set up a store at the gold diggings at Lawrence. He afterwards came down to Dunedin, and became a partner in the drapery firm of Saunders and M'Beath, in Princes street. After some years the partnership was dissolved, and he went into bus - ness on his own account. Mr M'Beath is survived by his wife, two sons (William, who is in camp in Sydney preparatory to going to the front, and Robert, a commercial traveller), and four daughters—Mrs A. W. Bull land), Mrs A. W. Nicholson (Wellington), Mrs E. S. Wilson (Dunedin), and Miss M'Beath (who resides with her mother at Montecillo). Dr Church is prepared to furnish a certificate that death was due to heart failure, and there will therefore be no inquest. The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) will probably visit Auckland to open the Westficld Freezing Company's works on May 29. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the following appointments have been made by the Government: —Dr R. S. Trotter (Auckland), assistant medical officer at Rarotonga; Dr H. Barraclough, formerly of Palmerston North, medical officer on the Island of Niue; Mr Hugh S. Ayson, of the legal firm of Bunny and Ayson (Wellington), judge of the Native Land Court in the Cook Islands. The Rev. A. C. Button, who has boon acting-vicar of the Tuapeka and Waitahuna parish for the last 12 months, and who is well known in the Wakatipu parish, where he acted as curate to the Rev. H. Paoke, has received the appointment of vicar of the Lumsden parish, and practically assumes charge at once. Miss B. Cray, of Hopclands, Hawko's Bay, and formerly of Owaka, has received an appointment on the staff" of Columba College and will enter upon her duties at the end of May. On the eve of his departure to take up a position in Invercargill, Mr C. E. Wilkins, cno of the most popular members of the Hillside Workshops, was met by a large and representative gathering of employees. Mr Hargraves referred to Mr Wilkins's many sterling qualities and his extreme regret at losing his services. In presenting Mr Wilkina with an inscribed silver hunting watch, he wished him continued prosperity. Mr Louden, leading hand in the car and wagon shop, spoke of his long acquaintance with the recipient, and of the good feeling which had always existed between them. Mr Wilkinson (president of the A.S.R.S.) also expressed the regret of members at losing the valued services of Mr Wilkins. Mrs Wilkins was presented also with a handsome silver-mounted jelly stand. Our Oamaru correspondent reports that Mr E. P. Lee. M.P., who left on a Parliamentary trip Home on Saturday, was entertained by the North Otago Club and the Jockey Club prior to his departure. Mr Leslie R. Breen, of the staff of Messrs A. and T. Burt, -who returned with the first detachment of wounded soldiers from Gallipoli, has been transferred to take charge of the firm's Timaru branch, vice Mr Douglas Hodgson, who has volunteered for the front. Mr A. E. Climo, messenger to the Minister of Internal Affairs, has been promoted to the position of custodian of the Government Buildings, at Dunedin. Mr Climo has been attached to various Ministers for the past 15 years. One of the oldest identities of the Dunstan passed away in Clyde Hospital, in the person of Mrs Brown. * Mrs Brown (says the Alexandra Herald) was a familiar figure in Clyde for over half a century, and will be remembered by all old travellers and visitors to the place. In the early days she rocked moic than the family cradle, for down on the river bank "Biddy'' Brown, as her friends were wont to call her, rocked the old gold-saving cradle to some purpose, and managed to secm-c enough of the yellow metal to lay by a comfortable nest epg which enabled her to spend the autumn of a long and vigorous life in comfort in the little town to which she stuck so assiduously. The Rev. Father Wattexs, who is reported to have died from wounds received at the door of his college in Dublin, was the Very Rev. Dr Wat tors, first rector of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, which he helped to establish in 1885. He was ordained in 1874 by Archbishop Redwood, under whom lie received the earlier years of his ecclesiastical training. Some years ago he returned to Ireland, and went to the Marist Brothers headquarters at Dundalk. Later he went back to his birthplace, Dublin, where he was head of one of the largest scholastic institutions in the Irish capital. The death occurred last Thursday morning of another of Ashburton's pioneer settlers in the person of Mr Joseph Lloyd. Mr Llovd, who .was 80 years of age, arrived in New Zealand in the sailing vessel British Empire in 1861. Ho first settled at Port Levy, where ho caaTicd on dairying for about eight years. From there he moved to Sheffield (Malvern), where he was engaged in sheep fanning for about four years. Arriving in Ashburton about 40 years ago, iio took up land at Newland, which ho farmed until 11 years ago, when he retired and went to live in Ashburton. He was a member of the Wakanui Road Board for a number of years, and took a livelv interest in the affairs of that body. "h or a number of years ho was a valued member of the Agricultural and Pastoral Asssociation, being one of tho first mesnfrers to join. His interest in agriculture and pastoral matters generally was very practical and at one time his flocks of Lmcolns and Shropshires were equal to anything in the district. He was connected with tho Methodist Church during the whole time he was in

Ashburton, and lent groat assistance in pushing forward tho work of the church in that town. When Mr Lloyd arrived in Ashburton there was only one etreet, very few buildings, and practically no fences in tho county, iir Lloyd leaves a widow, four sons, and one daughter.