About People.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 43, 20 January 1894, Page 7

About People.

Mrs Elizabeth Yates, Mayor of Onehunga, has been sworn in as a J.P. She is the first woman Justice in the British dominions. Miss Walker, of Yaralla, Sydney, has made a donation of £IOO towards the erection of a Sailors’ Rest at the Bluff. McArthur and Co. have decided to close their Hew Zealand business. Thompson, the Hew Zealand paitner, states that the business here is being given np not because it was not paying splendidly, but it is very likely the younger McArthurs are disposed to pull in their money rather than run too big risks. In the Plymouth R.M. Court Weyergang-, a retired merchant, sued B. M. Smith, M.H.R., for £3 10s, the debt having been contracted seventeen years 'ago. Mr Smith’s solicitor, pleaded the Statute of Limitations, and the R.M. dismissed the case without costs, but of course Mr Smith will pay the money out of his honorarium. Mrs Thackeray, relict of the famous novelist, is dead. When it became known that Mr Yyner was removing his family from the Five Rivers estate, where he had lived for fourteen years, to a property he had purchased in Invercargill, the employes on the estate at once set to work to recognise® the many kindnesses they had experienced at the hands of Mrs "V yner. The sum of £SO was quickly subscribed, and was invested in a beautiful tea set, wbicli was duly presented to Mrs Yyner. The Southern Standard reports that while Mr H. W. Stewart, of Mataura, was bailing up a number of horses in order to catch one, one of the animals turned round and charged Stewart, striking him on the chest. He was thrown with great force to the ground. Mr Stewart is laid up in consequence -with a swollen neck and a bad hack. Thursday next, 25th inst., is the 135th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. Mr J. Edwards, formerly of Invercargill, and now of Wellington, who, in virtue of his victory at the recent chess tournament in Dunedin, is now the champion of the colony, figures in the illustrated columns of our Wellington contemporary, Fair Play. Mr J. E. M. Eraser, the well-known Dunedin solicitor, is a candidate for election to the Otago Education Board. He thinks that the Board are paying- their officers unnecessarily high salaries. He considers (and tax-payers will agree with him) that £SOO per annum to the secretary is too much, and thinks that one of the inspectors with an increase in salary should be able to perform the necessary work.