PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 October 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr. J. A. Pl i miner,-of Wellington, who lua been staying at the Royal Hotel during a visit to Auekland, left on his return by the Main Trunk train on Thuroday. - - - Mr. Clarke, who is severing his connection with Messrs. Neill and Co., of Dunedin, to take up an important position in Auckland, was on Thursday last presented by the staff with a gold watch. The Rev. J. H. G. Chapple, who recently resigned, on request, from a Presbyterian charge near Timaru, obtained the position of librarian at the Timaru Public Library from among 75 applicants. At Tuesday evening’s annual meeting of the New Zealand Bowling Association the secretary. Mr. Geo. Dixon, in thanking delegates for his re-eleetion, said it was probable that he would not be in Wellington after the end of the year. He would most probably be taking up his residence in Auckland. Mr James Pryor, of Masterton. brother of Mr W. Pryor, of Wellington, is the winner of the first diploma to come to New’ Zealand from any London trade journal. Mr Pryor, who is in charge of the drapery department of the Wairarapa Fanners’ Co-op. Association at Masterton, submitted several instances of his advertising work on behalf of that firm to the "London Draper," which said that the entries were of a high order and quite worthy of the recognition of a special diploma. This was duly forwarded. An old identity passed away at his residence. Kingsland, last week, in the person of Mr. James Clarke, who arrived in this colony in the year 1863. He was at the opening of the Thames goldfields, and was one of the pioneer members of Lodge St. Andrew (Masonic), Thames, also being a member of 35 years' standing of the Protestant Alliance, Thames branch. In later years he was a trustee of the Kingsland Methodist Church. For the past 26 years the deceased had carried on a successful business as carrier and coal merchant at Kingsland. He is survived by his wife, four sons, and one daughter. Mr. David Robertson, one of the oldest and -most -resj•acted residents of Mangere, is at present lying seriously ill at his home. At a meeting of the congregation of the First Church, Dunedin, last week, it was unanimously decided to invite the Rev. Graham H. Balfour, formerly of Victoria, to become minister of the church, in succession to the late Dr. Nisbet. Mr. R. C. Cuming, a very old New Zealand journalist, died at Wellington on Tuesday at the ripe age of 81 years. The late Mr. Cuming was well known in the Dominion as a most able Pressman. He leaves a son and daughter to mourn their loss, the former being Mr. Chas. Cuming (the agricultural editor of the "New Zealand Times"), and the latter being Mrs. R. McManus, of Palmerston North.

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