PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 219, 16 June 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

VtCE-IIEGAL. The Governor-General, who is at Christchurch, is a little better, but rs still confined to bed with an attack of lumbago. His medical advisers state that it will be impossible for His Excellency to undertake any public engagements this week, and in consequence the Governor-General has been obliged to cancel the remainder of bis programme of engagements at Christchurch, as well as his proposed visit to Palmerston North on Friday next. Tf sufficiently recovered His Excellency, together with Her Excellency and suite, will return to Wellington on Thursday morning as originally arranged. A Christchurch Press Association message states that in consequence of His Excellency’s illness, Lady Alice Fergusson will take his place at a Chamber of Commerce dinner to-night. Sir James Parr, Minister of Education, left for the south last night. During his absence the Minister will open a new medical school at Dunedin, mid will return to Wellington on Sunciav. The Hon. W. Downie Stewart is leaving San Francisco by the Tahiti on June 17, and will reach Wellington on July 6 ’ A verv old resident of the Dominion, Mr. Reuben Monish, passed away on Mav 31 at the residence of bis daughter,' Mrs. C. W. Stewart, of Seatoun. The late Mr. Morrish, who was in his Toth year, was born at Littleham, Countv Devon, England, in .1815, and arrived in New Zealand in 1865. He took part in the ’1 hames gold rush, and later acted as providore of small boats running between Auckland and Whangarei. before the formation of the Northern Steam Ship Company. He was later a familiar figure on the Wellington wharves, where he acted as providore for the s.s Stormbiid, and s.s. Huia, which were engaged in the Wel-lington-Wanganui run before the opening of the Main Trunk railway line. He served in this rapacity for p number of ve-irs, and eventually entered the hotel business, taking over the Tramwav Hotel, Newtown, and later on purchasing the Club Hotel at Greymouth. After carrying on business on the Coast for a number of years, he engaged in the building trade in Wellington until he retired in 1903. He was a life member of the Working Men’s Club, and a well-known figure for many years in Newtown, until taking up his residence at Seatoun. He leaves a daughter and two brothers, both of whom are in America.