PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Col. Knight, of the Salvation Army, leaves Wellington to-morrow on a tour of the North Island. The Hon. G. Fowlds, who is in Auckland, to-day celebrates his .silver wedding — a fact on which he • has received numerous congratulatory messages. Mi. C J. Cooper, general manager of the Liverpool, London, and Globo Insurance Company, arrived from Chrisichurch this morning. He leaves for the south to-morrow. After an absence of several years, Mr. Thomas M'Hath, who has been acting as mine manager on the Gold Coast for a London syndicate, has returned to New Zealand, where he intends devoting. his attention to mining. At the monthly meeting of the Dis- j trict Nursing Guild Committee, hejd yesterday, Mrs. Rhodes made feeling ref- j erence to the loss sustained by members through the death of Mrs. T. W. Hislop, and moved the following motion : — ""That the committee of the St. John Ambulance Association District Nursing j Guild greatly deplores hearing of the death of Mrs. T. W. Hislop, vice-presi- 1 dent, and begs to tmder its most pro- j found sympathy with Mr. Hislop and j the members of the family, and will ever j hold in affectionate remembrance her j kind sympathy and , practical help through the committee to the sick poor of the city." Mr. John Greenwood, dentist, an old Resident of Nelson, died unoxpe-'tedly ' on Sunday night. He was born in Mitcham, Surrey, England, in the year 1832, being the eldest son of the late Dr. Danworth Greenwood, one of the early pioneers of Nelsoit. Mr. Greenwood arrived in New Zealand in the year 1843, in the ship Phoebe Dunbar, and received his education at the Bishop's School, Nelson, and at St. John's College, Auckland. He studied dentistry in Nelson under Mr. Henry Kawbon, and subsequently practised his profession at Greymouth, Wanganui, and Palmerston North, before he settled in Nelson. Mi. Greenwood was a Justice of the Peace for nearly thirty years. He married a daughter of Major Ga&coyne, of the sth Bengal Cavalry, in 1858, and had a grown-up family of three sons and two daughters. One of the sons is Dr. Greenwood, of Christcburch, a well-known tuberculosis specialist