PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

•Colonel Logan, Administrator of Samoa, arrived in Wellington from the south by the Mararoa on Saturday morning. It is understood that ho returns to the Islands next month. ■_ L Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby, M.P., has been elected Mayor of Carterton unopposed. , Settlers who were in any way identified with goldmining in the south during the later rushes, and the older residents of-North Otago generally, says the "North Otago Times," will regret to learn, of the death of Mr. John Stop in an Adams, which occurred at his residence, Maerewhenua, at the age of ,"3 years. The deceased was born in Devonshire," England, and arrived at Ballarat, Victoria, in 1862, and came to Otago in February, 1863. He was on the.Mdlynoaux at the Fourteen Mile Beach for two years, and then removed to Blackstone Hill, and was afterwards for three years in the Grey district. ' On returning to Otago, Sir. 'Adams settled at Kakanui, and resided there for ten yeita, engaging in various occupations. In 1889 he removed to Maerewhenua, where he commenced to following mining, while at the same time turning his attention to farming. , A Press Association message from )unedin states.'' Private Horace Jraithwaite, wounded at the landing at ■iallipoli last May, died in the Hospital in Saturday morning. Deceased was Drought back by the Tofua. He was i son of Mr. Joseph Braithwaite, a wclli known Dunedin bookseller. . The death occurred on Friday, at his residence in Grass Street, of Captain Benjamin Bern, aged 67. The late Captain Bern arrived in New Zealand in the ship Jessie Readman, in 1870, settling in Otago. In later years_ he ivas master of various coastal vessels, and he became a prominent officer of the Seamen's Union, representing that body at several' important conferences in Australia. At the time of his death he was one of the trustees of the Federated Seamen's Union. For souio time he was in the Customs service in Wellington, from which he subsequently retired. He leaves a widow, one ron (employed in the Dunedin Customs office), and three daughters, namely, Mrs. A M. Lawson, of Sydney, Mrs. Poultoi), Wellington, and Miss Bern. Mr. Howard Martin, who has been clerk to the Weber County Council for some two years, and who' has been 'granted leave of absence by tho council to' facilitate his joining the colours, leaves for camp about the end of the present month. Mr. Martin is to be succeeded by Miss Drake, of New Plymouth. . Mr. H. A. Deighton, who for the past three and a half years has been accountant at the Bank of New South Wales in Wanganui, has been transferred to Amberley and promoted to the position of manager. Mr. C. R. Corfe, of New Plymouth, succeeds him. Another old settler died on Saturday ;in the person of Mrs. Thomas Kirk, widow of the. late Mr. Thomas Kirk, botanist, and at one time conservator of State.forests for the Dominion. Until a few weeks ago the late Mrs. Kirk was in the best of health and maintained a keen interest in English and New Zealand politics, and also in the working of the Vivian Street Baptist Church, of which she was a foundation member. She was of a very charitable disposition. and for years had arranged the dispatch of boxes of clothing for the Crutch and Kindness League of the Ragged School Union. She arrived at Auckland in the ship Gertrude in 1863 with her husband, who pre-deceased'her in. 1898. She leaves two sons, ,Mr. T. W. Kirk, Director of Horticulture for the Dominion, and Prof. H. B. Kirk, of Victoria College, and three daughters, Miss Kirk, visitor for the Charitable Aid Board, Mrs. A. R. Atkinson, and Miss C. E. Kirk; also threo grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. The interment will take place at Karori this afternoon, after a brief service at the Vivian Streeji Baptist' Church, at 2 o'clock. Mr. Jas. Macmahon is at in Wellington making arrangements for the production locally of the moving picture "Our Navy." ,