PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 98, 20 January 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Tress Association message from Gis-Ixu-ne records tliu sudden death of Mr. Thomas Alslon Coleman, scn.or, it wellknown public accountant, lie was standing in the doorway of .Messrs. Chrisp and Culeman, when suddenly he fell and was picked up dead. Deceased, who was •,ixiv years of age, held Hie position ol' Last Coast Triibt Commissioner.

The Wellington Central Chamber ol Commerce yesterday extended a welcome to .Messrs. C. J. Ward and 11. S. Hart, two members who very recently retumeU from a trip nlircad. The chamber invited both gentlemen to "ddress it on some convenient occasion upon interesting matters that had come uiiilbp their notici?.

„\ev,s was received yesterday of wiueaiii at .\eiooii ui -in 1 . Ucui a e jivaiio, ,wlu ku- over i«riy years lesiucu m UCi.my ion. Hie laic ..a'. Jjvaus, who vus ,u his cigliiy-nnn year, was a native oi uioiicesiur JiiijiiHUu, ana iur ounie yems uciore cuming io me cuiomts was on jr. ana 0. oUMitiero minima between li'= „aiive country ana uie Lust. After .caving Lie sea lie went io .Melbourne, ii'ud in ltsid ne came over to tlio JU'of Coast diggings, wlitre tie was in ouo.-, ne=s as a licensed victualler ior suuie luiu;. Coming io Weningcon Ho assisted in tho luanagemeni oi Uie Empire Hotel, and liner on lie accepted an oner from Hie hue Mr. S. S. Uuivnes of the managership uf tlic Pier kotel. In the SO's lie purcunsed the lease of the Brimswick Hotel, Upper Wiiiis btreet, winch house he carried on tor over twenty years. For tnc past fifteen years lie had lived a rctn-eu Lie. About tluee years ago his wile died, and lor if year before His death lie had been lmns al the Masonic Hotel, -Nelson, kept by lib old friend, Mr. 11. .town, /hr-ee weeks ago he became ill., and he l-nssed , llV( ,y in a private hospital in Brook Street at an early hour yesterday mornin" the cause if dcaih being acute bronchial trouble. Except tor an «- casional attack of bronchitis lie had alwavs enjoyed good health. He has kit a family of five daughters-Mrs. Anditw Swan, of Dunedin, and Mcsdames E. RodUr, W. Bear, and W. M'Lachlan, Kh» I'- Kvuns all of \eto»»n The funeral is to take place in Wellington on Thursday morning. Air \. 13. Wilson, of Hie Land Transfcl Depaiiment. has resumed h* duties 'aie. a prolonged tour of the Olaco dw--1 trict. Mr Wilfred Stead met with an accident Hastings on Saturday. He was taiiiing concussion of the brain. Mr A. M. Elliott, a well-known business man and borough councillor at PalmeWon North, was taken suddenly il! Yesterday, telegraphs our Pnlmerslon North correspondent, and removed to a private hospital whore he underwent an operation for appendicitis.