PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 34

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr Fitzgerald, of Kaitangata, is spendr-g a holiday at Queens tovrn. Dr Witheis. of J Christ-church, is h.s locum tenens. j Mr Duncan M'Farlane h«s announced his intention of opposing Mr W. B. Scandiett bs candidate for the mayoralty of Inveicargill at the forthcomirg election in April I Dr R A Shore, of the Otago MecLcal School, who ait the annual meeting it the University Senate was admitted to the , degrees o£ M.8.. Ch 8.. has juet been »p- ' pointed junior hou<-e surgeon at the Chust- ' church Hospita' | A son of tip ! Tr A. Millar, Minister , for Marine, v . a p;asenger for London 1 yesterday lr;m Vi'el'ingttor. He is in th& eerwe 01 Messrs Sargood, Son. and Ewen, «Lnc! ■ * 110-^e jo gain departmemal ex13 .ules Ton ii ley Brown, tor many ye^ra with the- police and detective de- I partrnents of the Domini n. being chisfdete-c- j live in 1880. died ye^teidiy (says an Assoc.aJtion message irom Wc-Ihngloj}. aged 92. 1 Mr R. B. Smith, who has been manager ipf the Bank of Australasia ii Dunedin for itho past three yeais and a-half. his received ■the appointmert of manager at Wellington, in succession to Mx A P Webster, recently •Pfointed to the staff of inspectors. MiSmith will be succeeded in tne management ihere by Mr 1 T. Miller at present manager fit Palmerston Noith Mi«s Maggie Rmo. after 10 years' strenuous work 1.1 the missionary field in Chira ar;:\ed in Dunedin on furlough on the BUI mst. 1 The many friends in this city of the ac- ! (turned missionary were miivh alarmed at the ' serious condition of her health a short time (back. but. thanks to a good constitution : and the skill of her niedicail adviser (Dr j iWoods), she has so far r&covered as to be j able to travel.^ Miss 'Reid is at present ! residing with her brother at Elm row, aud after a period of needful re&t hopes to be *ble to do some deputation work in the I churches and to publicly thank those friends /who so generously responded to the appeal for funds during the famine peiiod in China. fSh© will have some fcharilliag experiences to gecite of the Boxer rising and famine sufferings among tho Chinese millions. An enjoyable social was held in the Sandy- j jmounit H«ll on the evening of January 29, at I !*rhioh a large number of friends and wellwishers met to b»d farewell to Mr and Mrs ST. E. Dick and family prior to their departure for Outrani. Mr Dick, -who has been manager of the HighcliS creamery for the ipast five years, ha? been appointed to a ' •imila-r position in the Oatram creamery 1 'A* excellent picgrairme of daucing mus'c

*):!£;■> f • .<« p outlcd winch a'l present ■ e n jc\€'l An Jair.cs Sim acted efficiently ,as MC Dining tbe evening Mr Jas. Garr, j 011 behalf of numerous eubsoribeis, presented Mr Dick with a purse of sovereigns, and I ftxpr-essed the regret they all felt in losing I him from amongst them and wished him and his family eveiy success and happiness in their new home. Mr Dick, m reply, thanked all present for their kind wishes to ! himself, his wjfe, aud family. At tbe office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company yesterday after- , noon Mr Frank Vennall, who has been 111 charge of the Dunedin branch for some time, 1 ai d who has been appointed to take charge I of the Oamaru bianch during Mr Burbury's , absence in the Old Country, was presented ' with a tangible token of the esteem 111 which he i= held by his fellow- workers and the company's clients. The presentation, which took the form of a handsome gold watch (inscribed) and chain and a smoker's outfit for himself and a set of silver entree dishe"s and fruit knives for Mrs Vennall, was made by j Ms J. T. Croker, who referred in glowing terms to Mr Vennall's abilities and courtesy and to the respect in which he was held by the company's clients Mr Croker's remarks were cordially endorsed by Mr W. D. Main and Mr Alex Bums The presentation was made on behalf of the company's Dunedin staff, country agents, and clients Dr T M. Hocken has been appointed a member 01 the boaid of duectors of the Standard Insurance Company A pnvate cable message fiom Me'b'uirne conveys the information that the Very Rev 1 Dean Fitchett will leliun to Dunedin on ', the 23tl- inst. ; The Press is our autboiity for stating that Mr Charles E. Tendall, oiganist of bt. , Paul's Chinch, Glenmark. has been apj pointed organist of All Saints' Church, Dunj edin. I An Association message fiom Nelson states that at a largely-attended meeting of members of the Church of England on the 12th I Bishop Mules was presented with a purse of I sovereigns on the eve of his departure for England to attend the Lambeth Conference Mr Frank Jolly, son of Mr A. Jolly, of the National Bank of N"ew Zealand, Tapanui has (says the local Courier) received word of his transference to Christchurch, and I takes up his duties in the bank there on j 1. Probably the oldest man in the district (\says the Western star) is Mr Henderson, of SDtautau. Next birthday he will register SO years. He has been 45 years a resident of the locality. He is erect in form, enjoys good ■ health, and is bright in conversation. Mr E. H Davis, who has been stationed at Oimaru, ixa- ja >a»i.B.. and who has been

senior clcik and teicgraphi-t for sc%cial jears p?«t, hos I'«ca trensfeired to Goie, where he lakes up the position of postmaster. At the last meeting of tbe CLnst^hur<.h Prcsbjteij the Re\ . l)i Erwm was granted e'ght months' lca^e of ab-ence, in older thai he might visit Great Britain Dr Erwin 'eyorled lhat he had made =atisiactoiy ar:angeiuents foi filling hi"3 pulpit dum.g his absence _^» Tho fo lowing statement appeals in the WcsimuiMcr Gazelle. — " The death took p'aco yesteiday, in her 354h >par, of the widow of the late Piebendaiy Jr.ikson, lector of Stoke Ncwington, who was designated for j. New Zealand b'shopric, but letuir.ed before tonsecratioii. Mrs Jackson's kindness to the poor ib 'till remembered at the Ea=t End." y On tho 7th mst. Ike hteraiy staff of the ■ New Zealand Times presented a .silver mk"taiid to Mr A Wilson in recognition of the pleasant relations which have existed between him and the *taff duiing the time he h-n.<* been editor of tbe paper. j Mr Harry Lamb postmaster at the Port. j Nelson, and fcrmeily of Wanganui, died after I a shoit illness He was a well-known bandsj man. 1 The Mataurn Ensign =ays it i= lumoiT-ed i that Mr J Milne, of WaikaiH, intends to contest the Wakatipu =eat at the next general c ection m the Go^ eminent mteie=t. | Cab'e advice was icceived on the 13th to i the effect that Mi J F. M. Fia=er had gieatly I benefited by his tup to Sjdney. and that ' bis sun Tkornas was convalescent. I An Association telegram states that there 1 is a piobabi.ity of the Governor taking up his residence it Palmerston North lor the iiext two years, and -that negotiations in connection with the matter are proceeding The Hor J. A. Millar, Minister of Labour, will rea<?h Dunedin by the fust express on Tuesday, and will remain in the south for about a week or 10 days It is the Hon Mr Millar's intention to \isit Kaiangata and Poit Molyneux. and, if time permits. InvercargiP. The Rev. Father Delany is doing duty ii the Ranfuily pansh during the absence o" *n3n 3 Rev Father M'Mullan, who is now on his way to Europe The R-ev. D O'Nei.ll has been transferred from Gore to South T )unfdm, and the Rev. T Kavanagh from South Dunedin to Goie. The Rev. Cecil Morkanc is on temporary duty in Invercar■rill, pe.idmg tho ai rival of the Veiy Rev. Dear Buike, who was to have sailed from England on January lfi and exuects to leach Invercaigill early in March — Tablet. ' The Mataura Ensign reports that a few of the ?dheients of the Church of England . ' Waikaia met tbe Rev. Mr Ranlrin in the church on Fudav evening for the purpose ' biddirg him good-bye and presenting him ■> iih a token of their appreciation of his - i\ices Mr John Milne presented Mr Ra'ikin with a purse of sovereigns, and, m 'if course of a few remarks, alluded to the it.-re«t that the reveiend gentleman had ma:iab"y taken in the building up of the 1 urch, his untiring efforts to main.tain the teiests of his people in matters of lmporti'ire to them as a congregation, and to the mversal c"teem m which Mr Rankin was -Id by the people of the district irrespective * denomination. Rapid promotion h«s been the fortune of Chudlev, R N.R . who is bringing ''p Shsw-Sav'll Company's new steamer Kia *r? out to New Zealand on her maiden • cyage. Captain Chud'ey, who is well known n New Zealpnd. was appointed to the com- ■ r md of this °teamer in recognition of his a'uab'e services fis master of the Rangatira v Ken that vessel broke her shaft on th<> fa.=sage from Maui'a to Newcast'e about a er.r ago The Rttngatira. which made many ox ages between London and New Zealand. s now engaged :n tie Rner Plate meat *>-ade At Eaufuily on Sunday, the 2nd inst.. a - .ost suece sful mission, conducted by the Rev Fnthei Hunt, CS . SR . was 'j^ed Just befoie evening devotions deputation leuiesenting the Catholics f ail pait* of the pansh, headed h\- Mr P Bleach, waited' on the Rev. Tathei M'Mul'an for the purpose of presenting him with an address and a purse of ooveieims on the eve of his departure for v holiday trip to the Continent "of Euiope, ard especially to the lard of his bhth after a continuous ministration , of his sacred calling for 38 years, the last ' 7i of %\Mrh were spent in the "parish of Ran- ; furly. During that time Father M'Mullan I has endeared himself to all his people, both ! by his attention to their spiritual wants in i sickness and advice and good counsel in health. Fatffer M'Mullan very feelingly replied He said that since his" aruval in the district the sum of £2000 was collected and expended in the parish, mciuded in which were the presbytery of Ranfurly and the church at Naseby , and he was leaving for his holiday without leaving a penny of debt on the parish. The Southern Cross records the de-ath of Mr W Preston, who for very many years wag a familiar figure at the Bluff, but lately had been in failing health, having to be wheeled about in a chair on fine days. Mr Preston was a very old identity, and leaves a large grown-up family, who will have the sympathy of a great number of friends. Tho death is reported of Mrs Penny, of Sanuon, one of the oldest lesidents of that district She leaves a large grown-up family. Our Wellington correspondent informs us that the Hon. C H. Mills, M.P. for Wairau, has been asked to stand for a Wellington City seat at the next election, but i& not likely to do so. i£r R. A. Paterson has been appointed chief accountant m the Department of Lands. The Rev. Father Hickson is gazetted manager of St Josephs Industrial School, Wellington. X>r Ogston, district health officer, who has been in rather poor health of late, h«s gone north for a few^ weeks in order to recuperate. We understand that Mr J. G. Stott, at pie&ent inspector of the National Bank, will shoitly succeed Mr J. Sinclair Thomson as managei at Dunedin upon the latter's retirement from office. We have been asked by the Primate to tender his most sincere thanks to the many persons in all parts of New Zealand who have offered their kind congratulations on the successful result of his appeal in the ca=e in which lie was concerned. Captain Stewait. a very popular officer m the employ of the Union Company, has made j many friends in the trade in which lie has recently been engaged, and on Thursday, at the French Pass, settlers of the Pass. Admmalty Bay, and the Croixelles djstricts boarded the Pateena for the purpose of' giving testimony of the esteem in which thc-y hold him. He was (says our Wellington correspondent) presented with an illuminated address, in which the settlers thanked him for many courtesies leceived at his hands while he was in charge of the PeasujjT. Mr John Russell, of the permanent way staff of the railways, was met by his fellowemployees on Tuesday evening (says the Palmerston Times) and presented with a tiavelling bag and a case of pipes. Mr Russell has been transferred to Chricstshurch, where lie will join the traffic department. The presentation was made by Ganger Vance, and Mr Russell suitably responded. The Clutha Leader reports the death of an old and respected resident of Kaitangata,

' in the person of Mr Jtis- Blaney, who passed ' awsy at his resfdence on Monday last, at the ixge of 80 jears Mr Blacey, who came from Caihike, near Glasgow, ainved in !New I Zealand by the ship Nelson 33 years ago. a d , the i\bolc of that time he has spent vi Ivaij tangrtu. He is suivivecl by his wido\, and a family of o*ie -3011 (James), who lcudes in 1 Kcitangaia, a.<d four dpughters — Mis Geo. i bhand ooaiands) Mis JUouglas Cook (Kai1 langata[. Mis Hr.irison, antl Mis While1 smith, both icsidi.g at the West Coast. An- ' other daughter (mis. F. T. Poole) died 10 ' \eais ago. I Commissioner and Mrs M'Kie, who for tfe* ' past six yeeis ha\e been m charge of the i Salvation Amiy wcrk in Australasia, are j under oiders to siiy farewell to thea picseut command and to pio^eed to London The congregation of thp. Fiejnington Pres■bjtenan Chuich (Canteroiiry; has addieoged a unanimous call to the Eev James A. Blown, of Gie\tov\n North, It was Miss Lt E Broom (not Biov.n). of tins utj. who recently passed the matuculation examination Our An ow town coirespondent slates that M^i Willkuti L Da\is, a well-known Skippers | lesidont and miner, died sudden. y on Fuday, presumably liom heart disease Ho was highly lc-pected and esteemed in the district. The Tuapeka Times learns that ihe health of Mi James Bennet, M.P., is at piesent unsahgiintory On Thuisday he was in Lawrence for the puipose of getting medical advice ai;c! ii is understood that lie has been advi't^ to take tlimgs very qtuetiy for some time.' The public (oui contcrnporaiy adds) will, it is hoped, therefore not tiouble him on bus-mess or political matteis any more than i<! urgently necessary "in the meantime. Iheie passed away (saj-a the Lake County Piess) at the Arrow Hospital a very old and lespected minei of Skippeis Point. -Mr John Poultcr. in his seventy-third year. Like the good old =chool of mineTS. he was most kindly disposed, and did many little acts of charity unknown to the outside world. His lemams we.c taken to Skippers and mtcried in the cemeteiy there. Pn\ate information ha<s been received in Dunedin that Dr Tripe, of Wellington, passed away on the 11th inst. at the age of 85 I jea^-s Dr Tripe, who was a highly respected member of the medical profession, was an o'd colonist, having ai nved in Dtmedin on Chriitrnas Day. 1857. He was educated et Oyfoid, where he and his elder biother were cotempories of another aged New Zealander, the Hon. H. Scotland M.L.C The lastnamed geutlennn and the late Dt Tripe always exchanged vi=ita during session time — the one was aged P6 and the other 85 last yeai, — and it was both interesting and instiuctive to those who were privileged to know them both to listen to their college reminiscences of men whom they knew as youths between 60 and 70 years ago, and who have since become famous in many walks of life. The deceased gentleman is survived by his widow and a family of eight sons and two daughters. His sons all fill responsib'e positions, and are well known in and about Wellington, where they were born and brought up. Dr Tripe was a cultured man, who always upheld the best traditions of the honourable profession of which he was a member. In addition to trie regrets of a wide circle of friends, the deceased will be mourned by many members of his profession, with whom, although he was almost out of practice for some years past, he always kept in touch. Duiing the somewhat lengthened period for which he wa« confined to his home he was regulaily vi«ited by many of his professional brethren, who took pleasure in offeri ing him those attentions which sympathy and j fjood Heeling prompt, and which showed Ihe I affectionate regard in which he was held I by tho=e who knew him bpst. 1 An Auckland telegram states that Mr W. J. "Wylhe, °enior telephone exchange officer. ! died euddenlv at 1 o'clock on fie 16th at ■ Mntohihi, where he had been spending a | holiday. j The'Hon R M'Nnb left Wellington for the j south by the Maori on the 17th mst. i Mr J Lonvis, chief inspector of factories, is now m Dunedin on departmental business. The Hon J A. Mil'ar left Wellington for . Dunedin on the 17! h. During his stay m the. i south he will visit Kaibangrata and Port i Molyneux. j Dr A C Thomson, who was last week apj pointed as one of the two house surgeons I to the Dunedin Hospital, has resigned from his position in order to proceed to Auckland to take up another appointment An Auckland telegram states that Mr jH. H. Dettman, MA. of Sjdney Unij versity. has been annotated professor of I classics at Auckland Univcrsitv College I The Revs W. Slade (president) and C. H I Laws (secretary) left Dunedin on tho 17th en route for Auckland to attend the annual Methodist Conference. After attending the conference Mr Laws will proceed on his trio ot the Home Oountiy. The Rev. J. Waid. editor of the Methodist section of the Outlook, left for Auckland on the 18th. Mr A. W Rxitherford. MP. announced definitely at Kaikoura on Wednesday that he did not intend to seek re-election. He added that if his successor did not give satisfaction he might be induced to stand again for the Huiumu feat three years hence. Bishop Verdon left by Tuesday afternoon's steamer for the north, en route for Rome, for the puipose of paying his ad hminal vi9it to his Holiness the Pope. He will be absent for a- period of nine or ten months, and will probab'y resume hi* official duties m Dunedin about the beginning of next year. Mr J. H O'Donnell, sub-receiver of land i revenue at Gisborne. has been appointed re- ! oeiver at Napier, in succession to Mr Bull (retired). Mr O'Donnell is a son of Mr M. O'Donnell, of St. Leonards. Dr W. E. Carswell, M R.C.S , L.R.C.P , son of Mr S. K. Carswell, of Dunedin, has been appointed, from amongst a very large number of applicants, resident medical officer to the St. P<uicras ai d Northern Dispensary, London. Dr Caiswell is a. graduate of tho j Otago University, where he took his degree I of Bachelor of Medicine. i The North Otago Times announces the i death of Mr Malco'm M'lntyre, a well-known ; settler, of Papakaio, in his eighty-first year Xlf M'lntyre had experienced indiffeient health for some time, and his death, owing to his advanced age, was not unexpected. He came out to Victoria in the fifties, and with Mi John Carneion, of Hoise Gully, embarked m gold mimrg, and they were successful in their ventuies. They arrived in New Zealand m the early sixties, and still followed mirirg for a few years, thereafter corning to the Papakaio district, where the partners bought adjoining faims. There Mr M'lntyre lemamed ever since. Our Wellington corespondent sends some mteiestmg particulais concerning Dr W. B. Tiipe, M.R C.S., who died at Wellington Sunday He was a well-known, figure in Wellington for many years. He amved at Port Chalmers in the ship Gloucester on Chribtinas Day, 1858. He practised at Rangiora for soane time. On one occasion be was summoned to attend a case 100 miles from Rangiora, and although he had then been working all day and all night, he mounted his horse and rode away to give the sufferer the benefit of his skill and experience. The

journey, which occupied three days, was ont, attended w.th considerab'e discomfort and some little dagger. The weather was not of the best, several disp rivers which had 1 net been bi.dged had to ha negotiated, autj o\er a good part of the grou; d covered tLero was not the slightest seiub auce of a road. Ko left R-.iig.ora in 1871 fcr Picton, a-di savcii i years later he want to Wellington. Dr Tripe, who married 49 jears ago. 13 survived by h:s wife and a family 01 mr>e sons and two daughters. Th? sons are Mr W. A. True (W. G lui.ibull ard Co 'a staff), Mi Dudley Ti.pe (Ba-ik of New Zealand. Wellington). Mr Thos. Tripe (Union, bieum Ship Co., Wellington), Mr Joseph A Tripe (of Tnpe and I'ciun?. solicitors;, Mr Septimus Tnpe (dental surgeon, Eketahuna) Mr Walter Tripe (secietary ox the Gear Meat Co.), Mr Gee Tripe (dentist, of felling on) and Messrs A. H. Tripe anS C i- Inpe who are also residents of Wellington One of the daughter- is the widow o. the laic Mr Bertram G Miiford, who was on the Wellington staff of t le Bank of New Zed and and the other ls> the wife of the Rev. A. M Johnson, vicar of Ma-ter-ton. who is about to take chaigc of St M » rk * Parifh. Wellington. Dr J D Tri-a a.id Mi=, Tiice, both of Wanganui are brother and sister of the deceased -entleman.