PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vioe-Eesal. His Excellence the Governor (Lord Liverpool) will bo present at the Military Concert in the Grand Opera House to-inorrow evening.

Dr. Redman has resigned tho appointment of medical superintendent of Picton Hospital, after twelve years' service, and has been succeeded by Dr. Watson Hill." •

Mr. W. J. Hueston, manager in Wellington for Macky, Logan and Caldwell, Ims accepted the-position of drapery manager for Messrs. Common, Shelton and Co., of Gisborne, and is to leave for that town on Thursday .oesfc. Mr/ Hueston was formerly connected for many years with the firm of Boss and Glendining in Wellington, and a couple of years ago was appointed to represent Macky, Logan and 1 Caldwell here. Ho has been prominently associated with St. Mark's Church as churchwarden and chorister, was a member of the old Operatic Society, and was for thirteen years secretary,- and subsequently president, of the Victoria Bowling Club. Mr. Hueston is also a committeeman of the Boynl Wellington Choral Society, and a member of the Commercial Travellers'. Club.

The death is recorded of Mr. Wm. Stephen Cochrane, a well-known resident of Auckland. The deceased, who was born in Jersey (Channel Islands) 69 years ago, arrived in Auckland when 14 years of age, mid later was associated with his, father in an auctioneer's business. He was .secretary of the Auckland diocese (Auglican), and waa a prominent member of St. Mark's Parish, Bemuera. He was an ox-cap-tain of the Auckland Golf Club, a member of the Remuera Bowling Club, and tho Epsom Road Board, first chairman of the Manakau Water Supply Board, and one of the founders of tho Diocesan Girls' High School. For the past .thirty years he • has been a' trustee of the Auckland Savings Bank.

Mr. Joseph Tripe, ■of the legal firm of Young and Tripe, together with his wife, and Mr. W. H. Tripe (secretary of the Gear Meat Company) returned from a visit to England by the Tainui yesterday.

Mr. J. C. Free, of Southbridge, has been selected by a conference of Liberals to contest the Ellesmore seat. —(Press Association.)

Our Palmerston North correspondent telegraphs news of the death of the Rev. J. E. Archibald, Presbyterian Minister and Educationalist, aged 57; and also of the demise of Mr. Alfred Ruff, a well-known contractor, of 42 years' residence in the Manawatu, at the age of 70. Mr. T. J. Rothschild, of Wellington, who left for England in May Inst, returned to Wellington by tie Tainui yesterday. Messrs. P. Taino and W. R. Plimmer, of Wellington, are the executors in the, estate of the late Mr. J. J. Taine, ono of the original settlers of Wellington. The resignation of Mr. Martin Kennedy from the Wellington Chamber of Commerco was received at yesterday's meeting of the Chamber. Mr. Kennedy, in resigning, stated thnt'ho had joined the -membership of the Central Chamber of Commerco.