PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr. J. J. Hargreaves is gazetted a Registrar of Marriages, Births and Deaths for the district of Blackball. Mr. W. Joyce is in Westport in connection with the sitting of the Supreme Court. Captain Campbell is in command of the s.s. Malaita. Ho is accompanied by Mrs, Campbell and children. Mr. J. Noonan, sales manager for the New Zealand i Refrigerating Coy., Christchurch, arrived this morning. He will return on Thursday morning. Mr. E. Casey, who has occupied the position of assistant district engineer of railways at Auckland for several years, has received notice of transfer to Christchurch. Mr. F. Milner, M.A., rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, will attend th© Pan-Pacific Congress of Educationists, which will be held al Honolulu on August 11th. Major Dunningham, of the Austral Guano Coy., which controls Walpole Island, arrived on Saturday evening from Christchurch and is staying at Revington’s Hotel. He returns to the Island by the Malaita. Mr. Dolph, solicitor, of the Public Trust Department, Christchurch, arrived in Greymouth on Saturday evening on an official visit. He returned by this morning’s Otira express.

A baronetcy has been conferred upon Mr. William Berry, editor of the London Sunday '.rimes. His name was omitted from the list of Birthday Honours cabled to the New Zealand papers.

Mr. W. J. Phillipps, of the Dominion Museum, has been elected a Fellow of the Linnoan Society of London. This society is limited to 700 members in different parts of the world, and membership is now recognised to be a high honour in the scientific world.

The death has occurred at Dunedin of Mr. Thomas H. Dick, brother of the ex-town clerk of St. Kilda, and thq eldest son of the late Hon. Thomas Dick, Minister of Education and Colonial Secretary in the Hall Ministry 11880-82) and in the Whitaker Ministry (1882 83).

Our ; Christchurch correspondent telegraphed to-day announcing the death of Canon H. T. Piirchas, late vicar of Glenmark, aged 61. He was an able and scholarly writer, and published three works on the English Church in New Zealand. The Rev. A. Purchas, vicar of Hokitika, is one of his sons.

Sergeant E. Mackay, of Rangiora, has retired on superannuation after 44 years’ service, and was presented with a rug, and Mrs. Mackay.with a Dqulton salad bowl, by the members of the North Canterbury Police Force. Sergeant Mackay will take up his residence in Christchurch.

Mr. James Cullens, ( assistant engineer of the Christchurch 'Drainage Board, h isHoeen appointed engineer, at a salary of £6OO a year. Mr. C. !’• Champion has been appointed secretary and treasurer at a salary of £4o,j a year. The board expressed its appreciation of the work done by these officers to date.

The Prince of Wales cabled io Major-General Sir Andrew Russill the following reply to birthday greetings sent by him as President of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, on behalf of the “Diggers” of the Dominion: —“My warmest thanks to New Zealand Returned Soldiers for their telegram of birthday congratulations.—Edward P.”

The Rev. S. Lawry, of Christchurch has received a letter from Edinburgh, announcing the death in that city, on April 26th, of the Rev. J. M. Smalley, at the age of seventy-six years. Mr. Smalley was a well-known minister of the Methodist Church in New Zealand for over thirty years, and was president of the conference in 1900. Ho leaves a widow, but no family. Sir John Findlay is up and - about after a rather serious illness (writes a London correspondent, under date of 13th May). A week or two ago he influenza, which took a virulent form, and for a day or two he was in rather a dangerous condition. He is now making a speedy recovery, however, but will have to take life quietly. Mr. G. 11. Christie has resigned the position of representative in Christchurch of the Department of 'lndustries and Commerce. Mr. Christie has held the position since the time the department was established in Christchurch, and throughout the existence of the Canterbury Prices Investigation Tribunal acted as investigating officer. He has resigned in order to take the position of manager of the Avon Dairy Company, Ltd.

Tho Rev. Mother Holy Martyrs, who died recently at the Ashburton Convent, was bom at Christchurch forty-eight years ago. The Rev Mother was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Cassin. and sister of Mr. Mark Cassin. of Wellington, her sisters being the Rev. Mother at Leesten, and Mrs Walsh, of Christchurch'. The Rev. Mother Holy Martyrs was for over twentv-five years at Napier and three or four years at Napier and Convents, prior to being transferred to Ashburton. .