PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The dealh occunrd at the Club Hotel, Jjaniblon Quay, yesterday morning, of Jlr. Sydney Scott, well-known in business circles in this city and throughout tho Dominion. Deceased, who was a nativo of Uorby, England, camo out to New Zealand thirty-six years ago, and villi his brother, Mr. Mandus Scott, established himself in a wholesale fancy-goods business in Wellington. On tlio death of his l)rcither ho took Messrs. Van Stavoren into partnership, (ho firm then having a warehouse in Victoria Street, Later on M!v Scott left tlio firm, and carried on business 011 his own account. • Though ho has been ill rather delicate health for some timo past, death was unexpected. Mr. Scott, who was unmarried, had three brothers and a sister in England. Tlio funeral is to take place to-morrow. Tlio Anglican Ilisliop of Wellington (Dr Sprott) will be the preacher at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral to-morrow morning. Mr. A. Leigh Hunt left Wellington for Napier by yesterday's train, 011 a business trip. Among those who left for Sydney by the Ulimaroa lost evening were Mr. 0, Holdsworth, general manager of the Union S.S. Co. j Mr. J. H. B. Coatcs, general manager of tlio National Bank of New Zealand; Mr. C. B. Pharazyn, of Featherston; Mr. G. F. Roach, of Hawke's Bay; and Mr. J. W. Easson, of Wellington. Mr. Walter B. Honour, of the Wellington City Corporation staff of sanitary inspectors, has been appointed'chief sanitary inspector to tho Napier Borough Council.