PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12710, 1 December 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A Dunedin telegram of yesterday ■ announces the death of Mr Alexander Sligo, bookseller jaged 78. He ..was ; returned as representative of Dun- ' e,din in the Parliament of 1897, at the" by election following jMr Fish's death; He was a iM'oniiuciit 1 Oddfellow. • A telegram from Christchurch received yesterday states: — Mr Will Crooks, Labour M.P. (England) arriv--1 ed to-day by the Maori. There was an i official reception by the Mayor iiiiti ! so.iue citizens i Mr G. Worth, telegraphist, Palm- '' erston North, has been appointed postmaster at Wakcfiekl. The new office may be opened for business about the middle .of next month. 1 Mr George K. Williams, of tho Xol- : sot branch of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, and a son of the late Mr j Lloyd Williams, who was Wellington p manager for Sargood' s, has been ap- - pointed manager of the West Coast of the South Island branch. 1 '■