PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported from Loudon of Mr. Robert Gambles, director of M'llwraith, M'Eachavn and Co. .Mr. Jas. McLeod left by the mail train yesterday morning for Dunedin and Central Otago. Mr. J], Viekerman, Inspecting Engineer of the Public Works Department, has resigned from the service. A cable from London says the King has knighted Colonel Grigg, who was secretary to the Prince of Wales during his recent tour of Australasia. Mr. J. 11. Wallace, editor of the Greymoutli Star (formerly a member of the literary staff of the Dunedin Evening Star) is lying dangerously ill in the Greymoutli Hospital. A Dunedin message reports the death of Mr. Watson Shennan, formerly of Conical Hills station, well-known a"s an exhibitor of purebred sheep at A. and P. shows.

Mr. A. ,1. Baker, Otago district engineer for the Public Works department, will shortly be transferred to Auckland as district engineer there. He is to be succeeded in the south by Mr. L. B. Campbell, now at"" Stratford." A London cablegram reports the death of Mr. Charles Alexander, the well-known evangelist and singer, who visited New Zealand first with Dr. Torrey and later with Dr. Chapman. Mr. Alexander was 53 years of age.

Mr. G. M. Ollivier left Christchurch for Melbourne on Wednesday. He has been chosen to play in the Victorian Lawn Tennis championships, and on his form there depends his chance of being included in the team to represent Australasia against the United' States in the Davis cup contest.

Sir Riley Lord died in England in August at the age of 82 yea'rs. He was mayor of Newcastle i'n tS93 and in 1899. The Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, was due to iiis initiative. He was knighted in WOO. Sir Riley Lord was fond of telling how he began work in England for eighteenp/mee a week, toiling from morning till dark, and that on being "put on full time" his wages were advanced to three shillings a week.

An old resident of Napier, Mr. Samuel Cam ell, died yesterday afternoon, aged 88 years (says a Press telegram from Napier). The deceased, who was mayor in 1004 and 1905, was bom at Nottinghamshire, and reached Auckland in the ship Cadusaus in ISO2. He resided in Auckland till 1863, when he went to the goldfields at Hokitika, Later he went into businoss as a photographer at Nelson and Auckland, and went to Napior in 1860. The deceased won the Napier seat in the Liboral Party's interests in 1804. He was also a member of local bodies and he was a freemason.