PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

, Members of the Opposition party.' met oii Thursday evening to make a presentation of a christening cup, in honour of the birth of a.son.to Mr. and.Mrs. D. H.Guthrie, during the session. ■'. ■■• Mr. George Stepheneon, of the firm of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Company, Dunedin, is at present on a visit to Wellington, accompanied by" Mrs. Ste-. phenson. Mr. Stephenson intends to visit England shortly, and it is very probable that. for. some time he may make;his home in Bradford. •.... • '... .'■■■ ■ Mr. J. H. B. Coates, general manager of/the..National Bank -. of N«w. Zealand; left for Auckland by the Wimmera on Thursday evening. ...... : . : V' '. Mr.' Q. Toogood, of.the legal firm of Messrs. Field, Luckie, and Toogood, left on a holiday visit to Sydney on Friday. Dr. J. F. Trevor died at Christchurch. on Thursday night, aged 75 years..: Ho wae (states a Press 'Association' telegram) in the West Indies, after takings his diploma, till 1868/ when,, he.,' sailed from London for Now Zealand. ■'•'■' He , practised .his profession at Kaiapoi till'lß72, and then went to Ashburton,' Forinany. years ho was surgeon'superintendent of the Ashburton Hospital, as well as coroner for the borough. . He was' fcvico , married, - and leaves a widow, but no children./ ; :■■■■■■•;•'■' :.'.i ;'-/.■ ■' '.';.>. V Mr. Alexander'.' Stewart, a prominent resident of' Dunedin,; died at his 'residence, "Melncss," Anderson's Bay, yesterday, aged 79: The late Mr.. Stewart cama to Dunedin from Australia' in the early 'sixties,and, in 1884, retired from active business. : He is survived by; his widow, and a family , of two sons and one daughter—Captain R.,Stewart, late in command of the Union Steam Ship Company's Takapuna, Mr.' J.-\A.'. : Stewart, manager'in Wellington of the Industrial Branch- of the A.M.I?. Society, and' Miss Elizabeth' Stewart, of Dunedin.