PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9612, 5 October 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr Deamer, who nas for many years resided at Featheraton, intends ' leaving for Sydney shortly, where he will take up his residence. The death is announced of Mrs iJeannie Brownlee, aged 68, wife of Mr George Brownlee, a well-known seedsman, who has been a resident of Oamaru sinca 1874 Mr C. H. F. Macpherson, who has been on the staff of the Palmerston North branch of the New 'Zealad Loan and Mercantile Agancy Company for the past seven or •eight years, has been promoted to the position of manager of the 'Dannevirke branch of the company. Mr S. Wood, who has conducted ' the wool-sorting classes un r ler the Hawke's Bay Education Board, in the different centres and Masterton 'Technical School during the winter with conspicuous, success, has • been appointed East Coast manager fror Messrs J. J. Bourke and Go., the well-known Wellington wool merchants. After her farewell concert in Mel--1 bourne next mo.itb, Madame Melba •will allow herselt.a couple of months' rest After Christmas she will sail for Naples, thence to Nice, Monte Carlo and Paris, where she will renew her artisitic. associations. On TMay 4th she will give a grand orchestral concert in the Royal Albert Hall, London, and on May 17th she will appear at Covent Garden as Desdemona in the presence of the King and Queen. Mr Samuel Durman, who died at Rangiora on Friday, last, was in ins, ■ early life a warder at Milbank Prison, in England. About the year 1862 he went out tu We*stern Australia, With Colonel Hume, to fill a position in the prison there. After spending some years in that colony he went to Melbourne, where he entered the hotel business. Thirty years ago he went to Canterbury aiid, after carrying on a blacksmithing business for some time in Rangiora, he removed to Gust, where he was appointed clerk and surveyor to the Road Board. His Excellency the Governor reached Wellington from Auckland by last evening's tram. As Lord Tlunket's term as Governor expires next year, and' Lady Plunket expects to leave for England next February, their Excellencies will not again be in residence in Auckland. Lord Plunket leaves New Zealand in May or June. On the present occasion he will remain a fortnight in Wei 'lington. On the J 3th irist. he will be joined by Lady Plunket and their Excellencies will later proceed to Christchurch. Mrs Crombie, relict of the late Mr Charles Melville Crombie, formerly Commissioner of Taxes for New "Zealand, died at Wellington on Sunday last, after an illness extending over a period of three months. Mrs Crombie was born in Weedon, a iparish of England, in the county of Northampton, in 1844. The deceased' lady, who was pre-deceased by Mr Crombie fifteen years, was married in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1860, and -■came to New Zealand thirteen years after. She leaves seven sons and six daughters—Messrs C. A. M.' and A. F. Crombie, Melbourne: H. 6rombie, Shanghai; M. J. Crombie, Inglewood; W. A. Crombie, Sydney; !F. W. and N. J. Crombie, Wellington: , Mrs C. F, Dorizac; Sister M Dominica, St. Mary's Convent, Wellington; Sister M. Cecilia, Sister of Compassion, Wellington; •and Misses '3. M. f 3. and E. M. Crombie.