PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr Bening Arnold, of Bounemouth. England celebrated his I.olst birthday hv playing a game of bowls on the corporation bowling green. -Mr R. Jr win, headmaster of the Queens Bark School, who has been indisposed during the msv few months resumed duty yesterday.

Dr. T). D. Brown, who has'’ just been elected to a junior fellowship under the Beit Memorial, was nssis ant to the professor of anatomy a I

Otago T'niversity last year

Herr llerteustrin,. a former Swiss President, celebrated his 100th birthday on a recent Sunday at Winterthur (.Switzerland). He still retains all Ins faculties, and iis in good health The. death of- Hon. Edward Russell, a member of the- Commonwealth Senate, and formerly assistant and honorary Minister, is announced from Melbourne.

'Mr Roht. McAllister, of Levin, has been advised of his appointment as an organiser for j.lie New Zealand Alliance, with headquarters in Rotorua.

An Auckland telegram announces the death of Mr Isaac Hopkins, aged 88, for many years aparian expert to the Agricultural Department.

Mr John Ramsay, of Gonville, has received the appointment of engineer to the Taihape Borough, and is to take up his new duties almost immediately.

Says the Foxton Herald: The “singing padre,” the Rev. A. Alitcliell, of Feilding, commenced a brief mission of inspiration and help in the . Foxton Methodist Church on Sunday.

The death occurred yesterday of the Veil. Archdeacon Arthur Toogood at the age of S 4 years. By his death there disappears a- one time notable figure in the Anglican ministry of New Zealand. He had lived in retirement in Wanganui.

Says last night’s Wellington Post: Information has been made by Mr AVilford that Mr Richard Cohbe, of Feilding, will stand for the National Party at the next election. against Mr Gordon Flliott, the Reform candidate.

“M r Chairman, ladies, and gentleman and Sir James Nash,” was tho facetious opening of Air G. Witty, M.P., made to his address last evening at the rccep.tiou of Premier Coates in the . Palmerston Opera. House. Naturally there was much hilarity at the jest. “You shouldn t laugh,” continued Air • Witty, ‘ 1 might he a- little previous, hut it s

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By the Niagara, which arrived in Auckland yesterday, came a tfistinjguished Canadian, the Hon. N. W. Rowell, K.C., LL.D., for a -tour of New Zealand, Mi - Powell became a member of the Bencher Law Society in 1911, and wag leader of the Liberal Opposition in the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1917. From 1917 .to 1921 be was a Unionist member of the Dominion Parliament. '