PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL

Considerable improvement is reported by the Palmerston Hospital in the condition of Mr Francis McLean, who sustained injuries while hunting some time ago at Kiwitea.

Mr Noel Bramwell, who fractured' a leg while playing in the represen-! tativc Rugby fixture at Palmerston j on Wednesday last, is reported to he improving. The Ven. Archdeacon A .S. Innes-, Jones, of Rosencath, Wellington, who has been ill for the last three weeks, 1 will bo confined to his house for some time. The. Director-General of Health,' Dr. Valentine, will retire from the service of the department at the end of the present month. He has been granted six months’ leave of absence 1 on full pay. The Rev. Father Cahill, formerly the parish priest in Feilding, arrived , hack in his home town in County Clare, Ireland, in time to comfort j his mother in her last illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs Josephine 1 Lynch, Deerpark. The Clare Cham- | pion, in a lengthy and eulogistic obituary, says: “Her last: days

were brightened by the constant attendance at her bedside of her son, Rev. T. Cahill, from New Zealand. To the church, of which she was so zealous and devoted a member, she gave six of her talented family : Rev. Mother M. Peter, Convent of Mercy, Albury, New South Wales; Sister Mary Gertrude, Convent of Mercy, Brewarrina, New South Wales ; Sister Mary' Xavier, Convent of Mercy', White Cliff, New' South Wales; Rev. T. J. Cahill, Wellington, New Zealand ; Very' Rev. \\. F Cahill, Brinalong, New South Wales; and the late Rev. John J. Cahill, Brewarrina, New South Wales. The other members of the family left to mourn the loss of a loving mother are Michael J. Cahill, 460 Riverside Drive, New York City; James E. Cahill, New York City; and her devoted daughter, Mrs Josephine Lynch.