PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14200, 26 August 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

2V. cablegram) states that Lady Ridley’s dstate haV been proved at £2.%907. .J

Mr Justice Higgins stated in the . Arbitration Court in Melbourne, that lie . may be compelled to vesign. The death has occurred in Auckland >©f Mr John M’Williams, of Webb street Wellington, who was in former years a -f '-contractor in a large way. He was a :member of the Wellington-. Racing Club. A cable from London states that- Mr: Xiloyd George, wife of the Prime Min ister, has been nominated Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, 4n recognition of her services in connection, with' War cha.rities, for* rwhich she raised over £200,0011. The following nominations have beeiji for the various offices of tlie Taratahi-Carterton Pacing Club: —President, Mr H. A* Biumy (re-elected); vice-presidents, Messrs \\. Howard Hooth, J. Hodder, J. Gage Williams; ’ -treasurer Mr G. E. Allen; stewards, Messrs "W. C. Deller, W. J. Denbce, G. TT. T. Eaton, A. C. Feast, K. G. KemblcWpast oflicers), A. 0. Abbott, p. Bain', F. J. Lindop, W. J. O’Meara, .J. Gage Williams. Estate of the. gross value of £4.9.0,430, with net personality £494,915) has: ■bem left by Mr W. O. Gilchrist, well Rj&iwn in Anglo-Australasian city circles. Among, other activities, he. was. ? a director of the Union Bank pf Australia, Ltd., of thp British and - Aus--.-tralasian Trust and Loan Company, and .©f Messrs Dalgety. : and Co. After the payment of a number of bequests to Ms wife .and relatives, he left the residue of his property upOn trust to his .four daughters. The duties on the property at this valuation amount to ‘ab* .out £128,000. Mr Donald Reid, of the • %id and Lemon, solicitors, and son of the late Donald KtfMj 'died in his ofhe-e at Dunedin yesterday afternoon. Deceased, who was member for Taieri in the Hotfee of Representatives from 1902 to 1908, was born aL'C&versham in- 1855. He was educated in the North Taieri . district school. He studied law with Smith, Anderson and Co., and was admitted a barrister in 1579. He was an authorjjk on bimctalism, and- wps secthe New Zealand Bimetallic League". He succeeded his father as president of the Otago Early Settlers’ .Association. —Press Association. The death occurred of Mr Alex. McFarlane at Palmerston North on Tues-' dav night. Deceased, who was about -55 years of age, resided in the Pahiafor a considerable period. Hti was for many years chairman of the Ballanee Daify Company. He was also a prominent member of the North Island Dairy Association and the Farmers’ Union, and was one of the pioneer members of the Pahiatua A. and P. Association and the Pahiatua Racing Club. About nine years ago lie was el-', eeted a member of the Wellington Harbour Board for the Wairarapa district It was only recently that lie removed to Palmerston, where he contracted an illnesft that terminated in his death. The /ate Mr McFarlane is survived by a wiu3w, two sons (Messrs Hewitt and Henry McFarlane), and three daughters (Misses J. and"B.' McFarlane, all of Palmerston North, and Mrs S. T. Horne, of Ballanee).