PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

r-” Mr and Mrs. R. Smith will return from Westport this, evening.. Mrs T. Dunn, of Barrytown, left for Christchurch to-day. Miss Maisie Mclntosh, of Hokitika, left for Wellington to-day, on holiday. Mr Jones, Chief Engineer of the Railway Department, will arrive from Christchurch this afternoon. Mr G. Mallinson, of Moana, has been re-elected unopposed' to the Westland Land Board. A London cablegram stated that Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Dundas Simpson Baikie dropped dead while addressing a meeting. Mr H. C. Gimblett (Invercargill), has been appointed Town Clerk for the Borough of Bluff. There were 17 applicants for the position. Mrs W. Dalzell, Aratika and Mrs Symes, Kotuku, leave by the s.s. Tainui on April 2, for England, on holiday. Mr E. P. Turner, Tramway Board Engineer, Christchurch, who has been seriously ill for the past week, is showing a slight improvement. A cablegram from Jerusalem stated that King Hussein has been proclaimed Khalif of Mesopotamia, Trans-Jor-dania and Hedjaz. Mrs James Irvine and daughter, who huve been spending a holiday in Christchurch, will return this, afternoon. ' The .marriage will take place at Wanganui early in April, of Miss Matilda MacDonald Blair, fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Blair, of Bussell Street, Westport, to Mr James McKechnie, of Kilmarnock, Scotland-! The following was the first draft of appointments for 1924 to the Nelson district; home mission stations, as sub-

mitted to. the Methodist Conference by the Home Mission Committee. Motueka—W. E. Sleep; Havelock —R.- T. H. Wearne; Murchison—R. Alexander ; Denniston-Granity-Runanga—-H. Dyson; Richmond (Wakefield) —-F. T. Hoten. 1 The following are movements oi guests at Wingham’s Post Office Hotel’;—Left for Christchurch: Mrs A. Welsh,' Misses. Wraight, ’Smith, and Dunlop ; ■ Colonel .Brittain,' Mr and Mrs Bannerman, Messrs Ogilvie (Beath and Co.), Wilson, Lunn, Sligo, J. S. ’ Langford, W. Morgan (Government Geologist), Strange, Henderson, and Farland. For Hokitika: Mrs E. M. Booker, Mr and Mrs Bostock. Mr F. Palethorpe will arrive from Auckland to-day to join the Greymouth staff of Messrs Ross, and Glendining. / The Rev. Ewen B. Harris, who has beep pastor at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Wanganui, for the past, three and a half years, has accepted a call from 1 St. James’s Church, Auckland. The call was quite unsolicited and the salary is £2OO per year less than at St. Paul’s. Mr Harris, said that he regarded the call as from God, who, he believed, had a special work for . him. He gave the congregation no Opportunity to dissuade him. There, is much regret at his departure, as his ministry has. been most successful. The Rev. Hugh Beggs was induced to take, charge of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church yesterday.—Press Association.