PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12020, 22 August 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr G. H. Jenkinson, Inspects* of Stock at Nelson j will leave ill a few daja foi- Wellington, to..take'tip tm duties of Inspector in charge or the Wellington and Wairafapa districts. Mr Jeßkjnaon has been; i& rJ <jharge of the Nelson office of the Agricultural Department since last December and prior to that was for Wo. l &ar^u IS P h * T 8 & of the North and South Wairarapa disfcridta. Mr \,K, Blundell,formerly of Wanganui. who succeeds Mr Jenkinson, will arrive in Nelson this morning. Mr Blufidell will be in charge of the Nelsdni Marlborough and Wesfcland districts' Major-General Babington, formerly Commander of the Forces in New Zealand has recently been created a Companion of the Bath. Mr E. J, Beresford, a well-known business man in Napier, died rather suddenly on Saturday evening, He was taken ill on Friday night, aridj after; being: removed to .# pr^va^a" Hospital, died, it is 1 understood from kidney disease. Mr Arnold Trowell, the young Wellington 'cellist, who has for some time been studying in Belgium, gave his first JLondon recital at. the Bochstein Hall on 29th June last. His ability was fully recognised by the London papers. Horn Henry Scfotlaij4 has tjeett iii the Legislative Council jfor close on forty years. Thoughjheas the oldest member of the New Zealand Parliament m years, Mr Scotland has not been in the Council, so lodg-a& have the Hon. William?, Baillie arid Sir Henry Miller. Mrj Baillie, who is six years younger, was appointed ia 1861, and Sir Henry, who is nine years pounger, in 1865. ma^ m • Captain Maxwell: Browi,: of the Everton Grange, has lost his wife bjr deaf-h! r A veteran who fought for the United States in the war with Mexico died, at his residence, Franklin Road, Auckland, last week, at the advanced age of eighty years. He was an Englishman named James Graham Percy, and as the war with Mexico commenced on April 24,1846, and lasted until July 4, 1848, -it was evident he went to the Stateß when a very young mam A movement hag been Started in Invercargill for the erection of a memorial to the late Mr John Hay, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor fo.it Southland. It is proposed to donfine Subscriptions to fellow officers and co-workers iv the Dunedin and Invercargill d ; strietsi Mr Alfred Otter, an did Thamed boy, has been appointed manager bj a gdld mine in Wedt Africa., at H salary of £800 a year with £30 a month entertaining allowanoe*. Mr and Mrs Yeates, of Bajrrofa Gurney, Somerset, have received a message of congratulation from the King on the completion of the seventieth year of their married life. Mr Yeates is 95 and his wife 93i Recent English papers record the death of ' 'Mr William- Van' Praagb, who introduced .the teaching of lipreadingifor deal mutes into England. Mr Van Praagh was invited to superintend the Jews' ''Deaf, and Dumb Home on its establishment in London over forty years ago*