PERSONAL NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1918, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss Mitchell, formerly of Stafford, loft for Wanganui this morning, having been transferred to the Post Office. *

■ Mrs' Bail, and her son, Corporal Wil lianl Ball, who has recently ieturried Iron the front, arrived by last night’s ex- / Ih , ■ r ‘ .Lieutenant, T. Franklin, who has recently returned home on furlough to his parents, proceeded to Tyentham - this liibrnihg. ’ ■ Our. Hokitika correspondent wires as followsJanies CHHstie tlied in the hospit/ril yesterday. Deceased was a'resident of Kumara for 40 years. He was a native qf the Shetland wa* .76 years of ago; He-leaves a wife. /A Blenheim Press message announces the dqath of Yen. Archdeacon T. S. Grace, fot'many years in charge of. the Marllibrohgh portion of the Nelson Anglican diocefce. He died last night after » illness,; ' ji.Mr Joseph Fletcher met with r serious accident while proceeding to Reefton yeslefdaV morning. When he had travelled about four miles from Greymouth his Motor bicycle came in contact with a atoif'e and his front, tyre blew out. Me \i(aa thrown very heavily to the ground, and, his 1 shoulder was dislocated. He was removed in,Air Allison’s car to the Obey River Hospital. He did not pass too good ; .a night,, but was rnnoh improved . mei’ping. The bicycle was very badly, smashed. I, //The; members of the Greymouth Aquatic apd Hegatta. Committees assembled at tHeji’ cliib rooms last evening t to bid fare>yeVt to Captain E. A. Eden, who leaves for "Wellington, to take up an important ppsitiop, <jn the waterfront. Mr T. Clarke'occupied the chair, and on behalf qf .the. two clufts presented Captain Lden with;'a gold lifebuoy, suitably Inscribed I which : was manufactured by Messrs Gilbert Hros.), as a mark of esteem in which lie Was held by the clubs. On behalf of the owners of the trawler On Time, a case q( pipes* and also on behalf of his intfmate friends a smoker’s outfit. After the; usual, toasts had been duly honoured, songs were sung by Corporal Nelson, Messrs Carruthers. Stubbs, Kelly, Ford, Thomas, Walton, Regaldo, Bright, Clarke, William,?, and Barrow, the smg'the National Anthem bringing a vhrv 'enjoyable evening to a close. Captain and Mrs Eden leave for their new home next Thursday.