PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13465, 10 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. Wi I'ero has forfeited hi* seat in tho Legislative Council by beiu^ absent without leave- for more than one session.

The death of Mr. John Dunno, a very old resident of Balclutha, is announced. H© came to iNew Zealand in 1863 to take, charge of the Queenatown gold escort, and subsequently had charge of the Tuapeka and Balclutiia police districts. In 1872 he started in business as an hotelkeeper. Ho van. -Mayor of Balclutha for seven consecutive.years, and held the same office -o!i two subsequent occasions.

A Timaru telegram states that for the jx)st of agricultural instructor lor tho Eolith Canterbury schools at a salary of £350 and travelling expenses, tho Board of Education lias selected from forty applicants Mr. W. Martin, 8.A., B.Sc, at present instructor under the Wanganui Board.

Tho ranks of the veterans of theMaori campaign of the early sixties -ftre thinning rapidly. From Bombay comes tho news that on May Ist Colonel Johm Anderson, M.It.CV.S., died there after a very brief illness. Colonel Anderson, who had been practicing in Bombay since- his retirement from tho service in 1890, had a, distinguished career in the Army Veterinary Department, to which lie was appointed at the beginning of 1860. He at once went out to New Zealand, and served for six years in the Maori war, including the Taranaki and Waikato campaigns. He was mentioned in dispatches, and receive'] the medal.

The death occurred on Monday of. Mrs. Hood, wife of Mr. Jas. Moncrielf: Hood, of Waimoa road. Mrs. Hood was born at .Uothsay, Scotland, being n daughter of Mr Malcolm Carmichael, a shipbuilder of that port. With her hi.-s----band, she came out to Now Zealand _ol years ago, iauding iirst at Duuediu, wliero tbey r-emained for five years. Afterwards the family romf)vcd to Kelson, where for tho past 45 years Mr. and Mrs. Hood have been known as highly-respected citizens. Tho lat© Mrs. Hood" was a "Highlander," and had all tho characteristics attaching to that distinction. She was of a most kindly disposition, and in a quiet way__ did much for those who required assistance, in limes of sickness. Tho late Mrs. Hood, who had reached the age of 78, leaves a widower (now in his 86th year) three daughters (Mesdames Nowbury. and Fabian, and Miss Hood, head, teacher at Hampden street school), a yd. two sons (.Messrs. Win. and N. I). Hood).