PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL

Members of the Arbitration Court will leave for -Wellington to-morrow. Many will regret to learn that Mr J. E, M'Manus was taken to the hospital yesterday suffering from a sudden illness.

At last night’s meeting of the "West Harbor Borough Council the Mayor GMr H. E. Moller) made feeling reference to the death of Captain Hardy, who had lived in the district for two years, and had proved a worthy resident. It was decided to forward a letter of sympathy to the deceased’s relatives. A Nelson Press Association telegram announces the death of Mrs Overton, wife of Mr G. E. Overton, inspector of schools, from pneumonic influenza. The deceased leaves a family of eight young children, the youngest of whom is aged seven weeks.

Recent arrivals at the Hotel Carlton are Mr Glynn Roberts (Auckland), Messrs V. Saleh and* A. K. Harris, Miss B. Hackett (Wellington), Mr J. Heskett (Onokaka), Mr R. S. Kent (Christchurch), Mr E. Saunders (Alexandra).

Guests at the Excelsior Hotel include Mr and Mrs J. Lawrence (Sydney), Mr R. T. Whittaker (Wellington), Mr C. M. Manhire (Christchurch), Mr S. M. Dixon (Hakataramea), Messrs W. Johnstone and W. M’Connochie (St. Bathans). Staying at tho_ Grand Hotel are Misses S. ’ and K. Uro _ (Scotland), Messrs E. Pay, D. Jatvie, and W. Keolyside (Wellington), Messrs D. Phil, C. W. White, A. E. Armstrong, H. StockLridgo, H. Bullock, R. 0. Lindsay (Christchurch), Miss Cooraor and Mr J. W. Smith (Invercargill).

A Gisborne Press Association message announces the death of Mr Francis Charles Leggett, for many years an officer of the colonial forces, aged ninoty-throo. He landed in Dunedin in 1860, where he was recruiting officer for Her Majesty’s forces. Later he was transferrcd_ to the Waikato, where he saw active service as an officer in the First Waikato Militia, in which he had a distinguished record. Subsequently he entered the Civil Service, retiring thirty years ago. The death is reported from the Auckland district of _ Mr William M‘Kay, at the ago of ninety. He and his brother Thomas were leading race riders in the early days, and at various times owned and trained well-known horses, William, now deceased, served in the Maori War, and when over sixty years enlisted with Kitchener’s Light Horse, doing service in South Africa. Thomas M‘Kay, still with us in Dunedin, is father of Robert, Andrew, and William M'Kay, who are prominently connected with the turf.

A London cable states that at Oxford University the New Zealander Mr A. E. Porritt passed in materia medica and pathology. A Press Association cable from London states that Mr R. L. Raymond, of Sydney, is engaged < to be married to Miss Kathleen Williams, a granddaughter cl one of the first barristers to settle in Dunedin. She ts the daughter of Mrs Price Williams, who managed the Manchester branch of the New Zealand Red Cross during the war.