PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 May 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

The following bulletin was issued at 11.30 a.in. to-day : ‘‘The Prime istep’s condition continues to v giVe cause for grave anxiety.” '» A cablegram from Capetown stated that the Prince of Wales had anived and was enthusiastically welcomed. Mr T. Hennessey, who has been visiting Westport, returned to Dunollie today. ’ A cable message announced the death at I ondon of . Sir Richard Butler, a former of South Australia. Mr and Mrs M. J,' Woodward, of Christchurch, are spending a holiday on the'.Wes,t Coast. They arrived in Greymouth last evening; ' • y-frvrA-',' " Messrs G, r Hunt' and / "N. Cox, of Chatham Islands, return to Christchurch to-morrow. They will not return to the ChatKams till July; ■• ‘ ■ NA-'" —ll.. NA. "... A cablegram stated- that there Wds a brilliant wedding .at., St. Margaret’s, Westminster; betweeirMr Roger Weth. ered, the 'golfer, .and the elder daughter of Lord Charles ' The engagement is -dnnounced ’ of Miss Gwen Dobson, third, daughter of Mr Douglas Dobsoil,.- ex-Boi;pugli Engineer at. Westport," to Thoiha.s Jtouaa, of Wallaby Street; ( Westport. . . Mr H. ' Daymond/’. df Chatham lands, who was pi'eseht "'at tlie meeting pf the ■ Westland " Shipping Co., Ltd., on Wednesday, visited Greymputh first ■ in 1869., He has'/ been . 'terming at ( Chatham Islands since 1899. ' Mt G. J. E. ’.Bickford, riiaiiager of the Dannevirke branch of thb Bank of • New Zealand for 29 years, ibtijed j’es." terday on superannuation, the occasion being marked by a representative 'gatfi. ering of the business- community, - who paid eulogistic tributes’"to Mr Bickford as a baiikbr, his work as a public -man, and a ‘citizen. A icitizen’s presentation. is to be made later.—Press Assn. . i .' The death of Mrs Mary Duiihe, relict uf Mr James Dunne, of’Reefton, ■. and ' ! formerly of Capleston, took plade early this morning, at the age of 65 " years,, fitter ah illness of six months’ iteration. •• Mrs Dunne- leaves one son,‘.Wil. liam, who resides in Reefton; and four daughters", Mrs E. Hefferiian '(Gtev- :

mouth), Mrs "Raleigh (Cobden), Mrs Barry (Victoria), and *" Miss' Nellie Dunne, who is schoolmistress at Mawheraiti. The funeral vtill take place at Reeftcxion Sunday. *■/.< 1