PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 255, 4 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

»6"ur Havelock correspondent telegraphs that Mr Robert Forrest, senior, died suddenly at 9 a.m. to-day at his home in the Rai Valley./ Mr Alfred Hill, of Wellington, the well-known composer, has decided . again to make his residence in Sydney; at an early date. Captain Burnett Stuart, D.5.0., and Colonel E. S. Heard, D.5.0., who - are to take up positions in the Defence Force of New Zealand, left England on the 14th of October. Visitors to the New Zealand! Pavilion at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition during the week ended September 23 included Mr and Mrs A. Bell (Blenheim) and Mr J. Bown and: the Misses Bown (Canvastown). Mr Dave M. Williams, advance ren presentative of the Phil Walsh Dramatic Company, was in town to-day making arrangements for the visit or the company to Blenheim on Tuesday " next in "The Yankee Detective." Mr Alfred Marshall, M.A., at ■• present assistant to the Professor of Mathematics at Canterbury College, has been selected as the Auckland candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship.. Mr Marshall, who is 22 years of age, has had a distinguished career both ia scholastic matters and. athletics. Major J, G. Hughes, D.5.0., whor < has been in training in England for " more than a year past, and has been * attached most of the time to the? Royal Irish Fusiliers, is returning to ■■» New Zealand, having left with his * wife by the Rotorua, which sailed on her maiden trip on 27th October. Mr M. Ryan, who was engaged ia the licensing trade in Wellington for1 " some years, and during the last few months has been living in Blenheim, has taken over the Grand Hotel, Westport.. Mr and Mrs Ryan have an excellent knowledge of the trade, and should make many friends on the Coast, for which part of the Dominion they leave to-morrow. i-~ Mr Barry Yelverton of Featherston has just been advised that, through the 3 death of a cousin, he » now Viscount Avonmore writes the Featherston correspondent or ±n» I Post Mr Yelverton is the senior been settled m Featherston for many_ years past. # • There died this, morning, at her residence, Old Renwick Rebecca wife of Mr Charles Hammench, faSr^of the Old ?«nwiek Bo«L Miss Dakiel some eighteen years ago. Tlha deceased lady was seized with at . naralTtic stroli on Saturday evening, X which she never fully recovered vouneest four. . _ way district, died suddenly atAucK land on Tuesday morning. The de~ He entered as an apprentice at the; I Winston workshops on the 16t<l JaSy° 1882, an<£ his subsequentomer was one of success and continued promotion through sheer conscientiousness and abUi|y. "J£ aerving seven years at Addmgton, MrFox wa» made distnet manager a£ Picton, and in September 1889 hewas transferred to the position of relieving officer in the locomotive branch of th« service. Late in 1893, Mr Fox was again made 'district manager aU' Picton, afterwards being madelocomotive manager at Auckland in January, 1895. A couple of yearslater, deceased was appointed to tne> position of relieving locomotive engineer a* Auckland; then he was brake-inspector for a year, about 1900, and in the following April MrFox was made locomotive engineerattached to the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office, at Wellington. On the 2nd May of last year the deceased gentleman was transferred to; Newmarket, where he was stationed as chief locomotive-engineer till the»time of his death. The news of MrFox's decease came as a great shock to his brother officers, by whom hewas greatly esteemed and his capabilities appreciated. Though a strictdisciplinarian, Mr Fox was very popular among the men under his control. The deceased gentleman was--t unmarried, and of a quiet and kindly disposition. His parents reside at Auckland. He was a comparativelyyoung man, only 45 years of age, and. the precise manner in which he met: his death has not yet been advised.