PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12460, 9 February 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A Dunedin telegram~anriounc.es the death of Mr James McGill, of the firm .of McGill and Thomson, and exPresident of the Master Builders' Association. > Mr W. G. Cave-France, who was relieving manager at the Union Bank during the absence in England of Mr Booth, is now spending a short holiday in Nelson. Lieutenant Hill, who was until recently associated .with the Nelso.n Rifles, has been transferred by the Railway Department to Napier. vSenor Gerardo Klinge, who has been commissioned by ' the Government of Peru .to visit Australia and New 'Ze'ala"iici and report on the diseases of stock and methods of agriculture and • stock raising, has arrived at Wellington, . The death is announced at Auckland^ of Mr Alexander Henderson, at one timo chief detective , at Dunedin, and more recently stationed in turn at Christchiirch, Wellington - and Auckland. He retired, after thirtysix years' service. •".'. < Mr Jack London, the .novelist, writing from Tasnjania to one of his fellow-socialists in . Christchurch, says :— "Unfortunately my illness has been more serious than at first appeared. . The doctors don't know anything about it,- and frankly say so. So serious is it that I have cancelled all arranged lectures in Australia, and have declined to make any public, appearance whatever. This illness has compelled me to abandon the voyage of the Snark,- so you see it is no laughing matter. Therefore I shall.be unable to give my lectures in New Zealand. I expect to be over there somewhere in the next month or so, and to sail from there to the United States. „ . Miss Elsie Massey's marriage will probably take- place at Mangere in March. She has received from the Opposition Party, of which her father is the leader* a presentation, consisting of -a tea service, a large vase and an excellent chatelaine bag, all solid silver, . ' Miss Ada Ward, who created a sensation by leaving the stage for the Salvation Army, of which she is a prominent t member, : will ; arrive in New Zealahd-on May sth; She will occupy three weeks in a tour of the Dominion. ...'... . ".■_--.