PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 1315, 11 July 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that Sir Philip Watts, K.C.H., Director of Naval Construction, sjnfco 1901, has retired from the Admiralty.

Mr. Frank Fowler has been appointed a trustee for this Wttlmea South public cemetery in place of the late Mi Thomas Tunniciiffe. Tho other trustees ftl-e' Mes'srS A. Knapp, J. McPhcrson, T. Shea, and P. Boddington.

Mr George Buckeridge, who arrived in New Zealand in 1855, died on Thursday at Kawkia, aged eighty years. Shortlj; after his arrival, he became managing foreman of the "Nelson Examiner," and thence held positions' M the ".Nelson Times," "Napiet i'eleg?ap"H)V Mfl "Nelson Colonist." The deceased was associated with.Mr. Charles Elliott in the publication of the first New Zealand Stud Book. He "leaves a widow and two sons, Mr. E. W. Buckeridge, surveyor, of Aotea, and. Mr..G. A. Buckeridge. One tff hi*) tltiMhtuHs; , M,rs,, .Holdsworth, is a resident of Wellington, where" the body^was taken for interment.

A Press Association telegram says that Mr. 0. Ci ,N; Hatrbu; fot nearly twenty years chief of tho New Zealand "Hansard" staff, until his retirement some years ago, died at his residence in Wellington yesterday, aged 76 years. Mr .Barron was a native of Waterford, Ireland. Be was educated there.and on the Continent,-and belt! a position of iiitertireter flirting ; thc Crimean war. Afterwards he joined the service of the P. and 0. Co. as purser. In 1864 he arrived at Auckland, and joined the editorial staff of the "Now Zealander" newspaper. When the seat of Government was moved to Wellington he accepted the editorship of tho "New Zealand Advertiser," and ft year later wa's asked by the Government to organise a Hansard staff. In 1861 lie was married to Miss A. ,J. Curtiss, daughter of Mr W. ft..Curtiss, ,0f Sydney. .He1 is survived by Mrs,,Barrori SIRcJ tiire'e sb'ns, Mr Winston Barron (Bank of Australia, Napier), Mr. Nugent Barron (Foilding), Mvl. N. B.arron (Wellington) and two daughters.