PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

The Central News.- Agency’s Paris correspondent states, that Marshal Hindenburg is seriously ill. Advice received yesterday recorded an improvement in the condition oi Mr Frank Doogan, who is ill at Wellington. Mr Vercoe is temporarily to fill the "vacancy on the teaching staff of the }Vestport State School created by the resignation of Mr E. J. Wills. The death is announced from London of the fainous Scotland Yard Inspector Mercer, whose investigations in Belgian racing stables, led to Bottomley’s arrest. Mr A. A. Adams was appointed vicepresident of the West Coast Rugby Union at last evening’s meeting of the Union, to replace Mr T. O’Donnell, who has. resigned. Mr H. R., Sellers (Secretary of the Racing Conference) and Mr T. E. Coates (President of the Greymouth Jockey Club), lire visiting Reef ton to-day. • Mr A. W. Henley, the only nomination for the vacant seat on the Westport Technical High School Board, owing to the resignation of Canon

Coursey, has been appointed to the board as parents’ representative. Miss Mabel E. Brown, matron of. the Ewart Hospital, Wellington, has been appointed matron of Dannevirke Hospital, subject to the approval of the. Health Department. Miss Brown is an English-trained nurse. Advice has been received of the death of Mrs Gibson Thompson, which took place at her late residence Fendalton, Christchurch on Sunday last. Deceased was 52 years of age, and leaves a husband and three children, one son, Norman (Overland Dairy .Coy) and two unmarried daughters, Phoele and Irene.. Colonel Charles Jarrott, motorist and aviator, has disappeared (stated a London cablegram) and his. friends had had no trace since March 24, when he left Maidenhead to play golf. It is believed that he lost his memory, possibly as the result of an accident in the Gordon-Bennet cup race. His secret marriage to Countess Rosslyn created a sensation in 1903. Under the will of the late Hon. Charles Louisson provision is. made for the following charitable bequests: Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Christchurch)* £100; Prison Mission (Christchurch), £100; Destitute Patients’ Relief Fund (Christchurch), £100; Rhodes Convalescent Home (Cashmere Hills), £100; Trustees of the Jewish Synagogue (Christchurch), £lOO.

The wedding was celebrated at St. John’s Church, Westport, on Monday of Miss Pearl Curtis, daughter of Mrs and the late Mr Curtis, of Westport, to Mr William Douglas, eldest son of Mr and the late Mrs Douglas, of Westport. Rev. Jermyn was the officiating clergyman. The bride was given away by her brother, •Mr E. Curtis, and was attended by Miss Ruby Curtis, as bridesmaid. Mr Leslie Douglas acted as. best man. . The death has occurred at Wellington of Mr W. B. Price, licensee of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, who had been seriously ill for some weeks. Prior.to taking over the lease of the hotel, Mr Price was the chief steward of the Maori and other of the Union Company’s steamers, in which capacity he was well known- The deceased, who leaves a widow, was 49 years of age. A London cablegram stated that the claim by the late Miss Marie Corelli concerning her parentage has been concerning her parentage has been exploded by ' a niece, who explains that Miss Marie was born in London over 70 years ago. Her real name was Caroline Cody, She was the eldest daughter of a family ot nine. Her father was in the humblest circumstances, and she was adopted when five. She frequently visited her parents until she became famous with the publication of her first novel. The death of Mrs O’Neil, wife of Mr Thomas O’Neil, of Kokatam, took place yesterday after a short illness. The deceased was a native of Hokitika, a daughter of Mrs O’Reilly, and 50 years of age. A' husband and young family of two sons and one daughter, a mother 11 (Mrs O’Reilly of Kokatahi), two brothers (Rev. Father O’Reilly, and Mr W. O’Reilly of Kokatahi) and one sister (M rs L. Hahn of Greymouth) are left to mourn their loss.