PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

The death of Admiral Sir Charles Hotham .is announced by a London cablegram. •. ' j.■■■ < .c

Miss Elsie Groom, of Greymouth, is visiting Canterbury,- and will-later go South, for a. fortnight’s holiday.

Sir Matthew Nathan, it is announced, will vacate the Governorship of Queensland next October. • : • ....

Miss R. Caimey, Shakespeare Street,, who has been visiting • her brother, Dr. Caimey, at Dunedin, returned to Greymouth .yesterday.

Mr J. Robertson, of the “Otago Daily Times” staff,- arrived -at Greymouth yesterday on a short holiday visit.

Miss D. Brown, Westport,' is visiting her sister, Mrs Gudsell, Chapel Street, having arrived frOm Christchurch by yesterday’s express.

A London cablegram stated that in the House of Commons, ■ Mr, Baldwin, Mr MacDonald, and Sir J. Simon paid high-.tributes to the late Lord Curzon.

Mr H. Chapman, District Traffic Manager of Railways ‘for/the Cantert bury and Westland sections, arrived in Grey mouth by yesterday afternoon’s express. v ;•

Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., of Christchurch,- states there is no foundation for the report that he is to-be transferred to the West Coast (telegraphed our Christchurch, correspondent):

The young daughter (Alice Mary) of Mr i Geo t ’Lingard, -Jacksons, who has been a patient in the Grey Hospital for some weeks, is making satisfactory .progress. i ? ...... . Mr W. C. Cunliffe,- of the. Railway goodshed’s, staff, leaves on transfer to Ashburton j to-morrow, ■His successor, Mr C. J. Williams, will arrive in Greymouth from Ashburton to-morrow afternoon.) . : 5 ■ . A Rotorua, Press telegram announced the death of Mr Benjamin Stott Corlet, aged 85y (aicolonist since 1863. He was A joint architect for the Rotorua bathhouse, and inspector of Government Works. •He retired in 1907. He leaves four sons and two daughters. ,1' -.'it ° Sir Truby King was a passenger by the express yesterday .-afternoon enroute to, Hokitika.. He was .met at the Greymouth Railway* Station by Mesdames Carr (President). Denton (.Secretary), Parfitt (Mayoress), and Seddon of the Grey branch of the Plunket Society, and Messrs W. H. Parfitt (Mayor) and T. E. Y. Seddon,,'and wel.corned to th® West Coast. -