PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12022, 24 August 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

It having been reported about town during the past few days that Dr Andrew intended leaving Nelson ats the end of the year, we have the authority of Dr Andrew for denying the rumour,, which is absolutely without foundation. Mr Fred Pirarii has been re-elected as Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board. £ The 50th birthday of the Hon. James Carroll, Native Minister, was recognised by some of the members of Parliament on August 20th. Madame Clara Butt commences her tour of the Commonwealth and New Zealand at the Town Hall, Melbourne, on September 10th. The Sydney season commences on October sth. M. Paderewski visited the Roy*l Academy of Music, London, on the af ternooon. of the 27th June, and entertained the students with a pianoforte recital, during whioh be played some works by Chopin, Liszt's Thirteenth Rhapsody, and his own composition. The death is announced of William Allan Pinkerton, head of the famous American detective agency, while on a voyage from New York to Europe. He was sixty-one yearg of age, and saw service during the American Civil War, in the secret service division of the Federal army* Mr Tom Pollard's new Opera Company of juveniles is haying a very successful season in Christchurch. General Booth hopes before long to go to China by the Trans-Siberian railway a rather bold project for a man of seventy-eight. Li Chin -fang, the adopted son of Li Hung-cbang, has been appointed Chinese Minister in London, He was formerly Secretary to the Legation in London and Minister to Japan, and was second plenipotentiary at iShimonoseki in the peace negotiations after the war with Japan. At present he resides at Shanghai, and is the recognised leader of the Nganhwei gentry and a director of the Nganhwei railway bureau. He is possessed of great wealth, a good position and presence, and speaks excellent English. The deaths ars announced of Mr N. T. Prichard, an early and prominent settler of Marlborougb, aged 70 years ; Miss Hilda Rowling, second daughter of Mr Thomas Rowling, of Hiwinui, Bunnythorpe; Miss J. M. Millington, of Blenheim. Her late father was one of the founders of the "Marlborough Press"; Mr Thomas Shearman, of Southbridge (Canterbury), lie was a member of the local Town Board ; Thomas Connolly, a well-known farmer of Winchester (Canterbury) ; Mr Allan McLean, a well-known sheep farmer at Gisborne; Mrs Martin, thirty years a resident of Wellington; Mrs Elizabeth Shields, fifty years a resident of Puera (Otago) ; Mr Joha Fox, of Zetland Hotel, £ (Christchurch); Mr Thomas Radford, of the Thames, a prominent Mason; Mr W. D. Jones, J.P., at Three Kings (Auckland), a Maori War veteran; Mrs C. A. Pankart, of Parnell, aged 77 years; Captain Cunningham, of Auckland.