MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 24, 17 June 1893, Page 555

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

LIEUTENANT ANDREWS, whose photograph we reproduce, and whose marriage we chronicled last week, is the first colonial who won by competition one of the Commissions in the Queen’s Service offered to colonial volunteer officers. He was originally a private, then Lieutenant in Ist Battalion Christchurch rifles (Syden-

ham Company), Richard Linn, captain. Six years ago he won his commission and went to India a clever boy. He returned to Christchurch recently on leave, a smart well-set up officer with an excellent record. We look on him as a credit to the colony in general, and to the city of the plains in particular. The death, at the early age of forty-six, of Mr Claude Hearn, caused great sorrow in Wellington. Mr Hearn was so well and favourably known as the editor of the Evening Press that it is hardly necessary to say much about anything but his illness —bronchitis, which attacked him some three weeks ago, and Mr Hearn unfortunately took a walk sooner than he should have and caught a fresh cold. This resulted in a relapse, which terminated fatally the following day. He leaves a wife and family of two young children to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father. Wellington has lost for some time M. and Madame Lostalot de Bachone and family, who have left for a trip to Sydney for about six months. Mr and Mrs Arthur Rhodes, of Christchurch, have taken their residence in Hawkestone-street, Wellington, for the session.