Untitled

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 51, 21 December 1899, Page 24

Mr. George X. Segar, of Liverpool, a well-known Catholi: barrister, has been appointed Recorder of Oldham.

Among the nurses who have been sent out by the Army Nursing Service to the Transvaal is an Irish lady, Mins A. A. Murphy, who has been attached to the Royal Infirmary, Phoenix Park, since 1891. She was trained at the Adelaide Hospital (Dublin), where she was afterwards a staff nurse.

The name of Mr. R. M. Houston, representing the Bay of Islands, has been before the public ever since the General Election in connection with a vacant Ministerial portfolio. Mr. Houston is th« eon of a clergyman, and was born in Belfast, I eland. He came out to New Zealand thirty -six yeara ago, and forßeveral years was engaged in teaching at Otira School, Otahuhu He afterwards went to Mongonui and started a general Btore, a business at which he was engaged for about fifteen years. He is largely interested in the kauri gram and timber trade. He is fifty -five years of age.