PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1923, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr F. J. Board arrived from Westport last evening and left this morning for Hokitika. Mr I. A. James has been appointed an examiner under the Coal Mines Act for a period of one month. Messrs W. J. Butler, D. Tennent, and E. J. Bundle left for Wellington this morning to attend the. Sawmillers Conference. Mr A, W. Macdonell, accountant, of the Reefton National Bank, has received advice of his transfer to Palmerston North. The wedding of Mr Burr, of Auckland, to Miss N. J. Atkinson, formerly of Westport, is to take place next wee.k at Auckland. The newly-appointed S.M. and Warden at Westport, Mr H. P. Lawry, takes up the position on September 1, holding his first Court on September 4. Mr Laurie O’Neill left by this morning’s express en route to Ashburton, where he will join the West Coast boxing team which left on Saturday to compete in the contests. The Rev Father O’Doherty, who has been transferred to Rangiora, was entertained in the rooms of the Ashburton Catholic Club and presented with a wallet containing a considerable sum in bank-notes. Messrs A. H. Kimbell (Under-Secre-tary of the Mines Department) and E. Newton (Conciliation Commissioner) are among the passengers to arrive from Christchurch this evening. Miss F. Sherlock, of the Post Office staff, Westport, is an inmate of the Grey River Hospital, with pneumonia. She was reported to be progressing favourably to-day. A New York cablegram announced that the Rev Cyril William Emmett, Dean of University College, Oxford, had died in a New York Hospital, pneumonia, after a week’s illness, rhe Dean and Mrs Emmett arrived in New York recently. He had intended to deliver a series of sermons there during the summer. Mrs Ogilvie, the wife of Mr Charles Ogilvie, manager of Bea th and Coy., Ltd., died yesterday morning (telegraphed our Christchurch correspondent). Mrs Ogilvie was trained in Wellington as a hospital nurse, but married as soon as she had completed her training. After her marriage she resided in Fendalton. She leaves a family of five little. children. The death took place at Westport on Sunday of Mrs Gibson, one of the oldest residents of Denniston, where her late husband was in charge of the main engine at the brake-head. She was mother of Mr Adam Gibson, of Wellington, formerly of Denniston and Westport, and of Mr Jas. Gibson, of Granity. Deceased was a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and 77 years of age. She had been ailing for a considerable time. Mr Thomas Kerr, a pioneer of tho Coast, died at Granity on Saturday morning. Deceased, who had reached the age of 87 years, was a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland. He served his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker at Glasgow, came to Melbourne in 1854, and in 1861 to Otago, later to the Coast, following the mining rushes. Finally he settled in the Buller. He is survived by a widow and family. At St Paul’s Church, Murchison, on July 18, Mr John Main, junr., ot Longford, a returned soldier, was married to Miss Florence Darlington Watson, youngest daughter of Mr W. Watson’ of Murchison. The Rev Jermyn officiated at the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in cream crepe de chine, trimmed with silver beads. She wore the customary veil and orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of white narcissii. Miss Lily Main, attired in cream silk striped voile, with picture hat of cream, trimmed with old gold, acted as bridesmaid, and little Flo Lester, niece of the bride, in Kate Greenaway dress and bonnet of white silk, made an attractive flower girl. Mr Vai Watson, eldest brother of the bride, was best man.