PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr. N. Wallis returned, to Rotomanu to-day after visiting Greymouth. No improvement is 'reported in the condition of Mrs. Fenton Kaye’s health. Mr. J. Jones, of Christchurch, who has been visiting Mrs. W. West, at Cobden, returned to Christchurch today., A London cablegram stated that Mr. Alfred Short a boiler-maker, and the son of a Sheffield moulder, is the first Labour member of the House of Commons to quality as a barrister. The death is reported of Mr. Donald Borrie, farmer of Papakaio, in his eightieth year. Deceased was a member of the Otago Education Board and a past chairman. Mr. F. G. Haigh, formerly of the Customs staff in Dunedin, and. for the past two and a-half years statistical clerk in the department’s head office, has been appointed examining officer at Wellington. Miss Peggy Foxwell, aged 21, a petite and pretty girl, and the first engineer that Girton has produced, has seured first class Cambridge mechanical science tripos. —Press Association. Among the passengers who left vy to-day’s Otira express were : —Mrs. E. A. Wickes, Mr. and Mrs. I. Bennington, J. Wallace, T. Fogarty, F. Eller, Nottle, Attwill, Walker, Macartney, Allen, W. Cunninghame, Mrs. Chisholm, and Mr. and Mrs. Cropley.

Mr Hugh Cassidy, head of the wellknown West Coast coaching firm, died this morning at Springfield. He had a stroke on Tuesday last, and never rallied. He was aged 83, and will bo buried at Hokitika (telegraphs our Christchurch correspondent).

The silver jubilee of Father Delaney the pastor of St. Patrick’s parish, Dunedin, was celebrated on Sunday last when a mass of thanksgiving was sung. The Father Jubilarian was the £ celebrant, and Fathers P. and D. O’Neill and Father Rooney were masters of ceremonies. After mass the children of the convent schools presented their pastor with an illuminated address and several other gifts ,at St. Philomena’s College Hail. Father Delany was entertained at a concert at South Dunedin on Monday evening and presented with a cinque for well over £lOO. Father Delaney has been in charge of St. Patrick’s Basilica at South Dunedin for the past fourteen years.

The indications are for southeasterly winds moderate to, strong. Weather probably cold and changeable. There will probably be a hard frost to-night. Barometer rising.. Sea rough; tides moderate. Two other mills —Gladstone and Marsden —were closed down to-day and no fewer than sixty men, mostly married, are thrown out of employment. Sufficient shares in the old Wealth-of-Nations mine at Reefton have now been realised to enable a st-it to be made in the mine operations. Anotnci old mine has also Started a mild “boom.” “Struck coal!” was the cry of the workmen in the main heading at the James Mine (State) at the Seven - Mile yesterday. It is reported that the main seam has been "struck, and that it is over seven feet thick.

Working in a coal mine is not the method of securing coal adopted by some persons at Greymouth, nor do they pay a coal merchant to deliver it. They adopt » more risky but cheaper way, and steal it Several residents of Cowper and other streets have recently found that their stocks of coal liave disappeared during the night, the thieves leaving no clue. Firewood also disappeared from one residence, and a selection of aluminium ware was missed from another. The most annoying and mean theft, perhaps was from a washhouse, the night prowlers getting away with the clothes which had been left to soak preparatory to washing day.