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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7808, 12 September 1903, Page 5

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Major Purnell has been granted the colonial officers' decoration. Mr F. Baume, M.H.R., is to be presented mi Auckland next Tuesday by his election committee with a gold watch" and chain. Major Coyle, the officer in charge of the Auckland and Wellington submarine mining stations, has retired from public service. Mr Edward Lemare, organist of the Carnegie Institute at Pliiladelphia, who was ' engaged by the Sydney- City Council to give a setries of recitals at the Town Hall, was a, passenger by the outward San Francisco mail steamer. . His fee was £800, but the result was a net profit of £500 to the enterprising Corporation 1 . Dr H. A. H. Gilmer has been appointed surgeon to th® Permanent Force, vice Dr A. C De Reneij retfgned. A. L. Edgar, a master mariner, died at Suva pn August 29, aged seventy. He served in the Crimean" War under General Sir H. E. Wood, in 1864. He was au old naval brigadesman, and was grandson of John Edgar," th*. third lieutenant to Captain Cook, when the oelebrated navigator was killed at the Sandwich Islands. \ Miss Nora Stevens, daughter of Mr John Stevens, ex-M.H.R."for Manawatu, left on Thursday for South Africa, to be married to Surge»n-Major Da_Tymple, of Heidelberg, Transvaal. Miss Stetens went to South Africa as a nurse with the Second New Zealand Cantingent, and served through the war with distinction. Captain Hutton has returned to Christchurch from the north. He is still uWell, but is able to resume his duties at the Museum. The Rev Fathers Kennedy and Buckleyv and Messrs W. G. Aspinall anQ E. Herries were passengers by this morning's express train for 'the south. Messrs H. A. Gurr and V. J. Gurr left town for Cheviot this rnsorniug. Capt Hutton aaid Dr Palmer arrived from the north by the s.s. Mararoa this morning. > The Hon H. Gourley, M.L.C., Messrs E. G. Allen, D. Buddo and T. H. Davey, M.H.R.'s, and Mr Ronayne aarived from Wellington) by the s.s. R/otomahana this morning. j Constable TuU, at present stationed at I Lyttd_.t*on, has bfeen transfamed to Ashburton. * . ' I The Rev J- A. Luxford has been gazetted honorary dhaplahi in the New Zealand Milii tia«-