PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13942, 30 June 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Joseph Ainge, proprietor of the Grand Hotel, Dunedin, died yesterday of heart trouble.

Dr Walton, M.D., M.R.C.S. Edinburgh, who is to take charge of Dr Unwin's practice during the latter's visit to the Old Country, has arrived from Auckland

The Hon. J. A. Millar passed through Timaru by the first express yesterday morning on his way to Dunedin.

To-day Bishop Williams will relinquish charge of +he Anglican diocese of Wain »u, of which lie was made Archdeacon in 18G2, and Bishop in 1894.

Mr W. Armitage, who has been farming in the Temuka district for tho past thirty years, left with his wife and family yesterday, to seek a new home in the' North Island, where better opnortunities are offering for men to get on the land at a reasonable outlay. Mr Armitage goes to Carnarvon in the Manawatu district, and his ma.nv friends in and around Temuka will Vish. him every prosperity in his new sohe're. The following further changes in the raiiws'v staff have been arranged:— Mr George Richardson, workshops manager at Addington, goes to Wellington as locomotive- onsrineer. Mr S. P Evans, manager at Hillside, is promoted to Addington as workshops manager Mr Edward Haskins. at present Government inspector at Pri'.-e Bros', foundry at the Thames, on the contract for railw-iy engines, becomes manager at Hillside, and will be succeeded at the Thames by Mr Bargh, foreman at the Wellington workshops.