PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14993, 13 June 1914, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr R. E. Macdougall and Mr Harry Matson left Wellington for Sydney yesterday afternoon on a visit to Australia. Mr H. Price, who for the past two or throe years has been license© of tho Clarendon Hotel, left last" night lor .Wellington, where he intends taking up his residence. Prior to M,r Price's departure a number of his friends presented him with ?v caso of pipes and a gold mounted tobacco-pouch. .The death occurred on Thursday at Greymouth of. a very old resident in- the,'' person. of Mrs Hannan, mother of Mr J. J. Hannan, the •well-known solicitor, at tho ajie or 82 years. The deceased lady arrived on the Coast in the year 1865, and kept various hotels and a store in tho early days. Up to tho time of her death she was licensee of tho Recreation Hotel. . A farewell address and a puree of sovereigns wero presented last nierbt, to Colonel and Mrs 0. S. Bailey by the public of South Canter- ■.'■■• ? a Press Association message from Tjjnaru). Tho Mayor (Mr -Guinness) presided over a largo gathering, M,any eulogistic references wer© mado to tho Colonel's sterling qualities, t both '« a roi'it-ary man anu as a citizen, Colonel Bailey hae resided in Tiniaru for thirty-two years, being Offioer Commanding the !>outh 'Canterbury Volunteer Ihstrict, He is leaving for 4Sng-ne-tt M'pok to reside there. Four of Colonel Bailey's eons served., in the iSoer War, one being lulled. Ono is now in tho regular army in India. The ladies of Timani bade farewell to Mrs Bailey yestcrdaj* afternoon.