PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

No official bulletin regarding Mr MaSsey’s condition issued, last night) but enquiries elicited ’the in-’ formation that it was extremely grave.—Press Assn.

Mrs J. Arnott, Tarapuhi Street, left to-day for Christchurch.

Mrs Bennett,.' who is an inmate of the Westland Hospital, is making-".sat-isfactory progress. . ,

Mr B. Adams, Presbyterian Home Missionary at Boas, left on a. holiday trip to Canterbury. „ , ■ '

Miss A. Walker, of the staff of theA.M.P. Society, Greymouth. to-; day on a' holiday trip to Invercargill.’

; A cablegram from Rome, rtrinotmced the death of Princess Yolanda’s second child, a son who was born on May 1 lasU . .

' Rev. J. F.- Martin, who has been .attending a conference of -the N.Z. Alliance in Wellington, will return this after-noon.

■■ Mrs R. Kennett, Christchurch, is spending a holiday in Greymouth, and is the guest of Mrs W. Scott, High Street.

Mr' John Hood, of Mount Somers, died in Ashburton on Thursday, after a heart attack. He was the first settler in Mount Somers,, going there in •1865. . :

Mr F. Lamont -will. arrive from Christchurch by this afternoon’s dxpregs, He wilt rejoin the literary staff pf the “Star.” /• ,

Mr C. C. Brice of the Railway Traffic Department, and Mrs BiTce r left , this morning on a to South' Canterbury. .. \ .

Mrs M.. Johnston, Wellington, who has' been visiting her brother, MiNeil Nicholson, left to-day on her return.'.

Mr and Mrs J. H. Sim. Invercarhave been on a, holiday visit to Greymouth, left to-day on their , return-' .. • i

The Hon. W. Downie Stewart, who has 1 , ’been under treatment in New York, has greatly benefited in health, and] is expected to- reach New Zealand earlyyin June. M'ijs Murielle Jolinttpn, of Christchurch, who has been visiting, her aunt, Mrsf Smythe, of Aljaura, leaves to-day' for -Hokitika, and will be-the guest of Mrs D. Walker. ,

Rev. Father Eccleton, formerly : of Reeftpn, and well known throughout the 1 . West Coast, is a patient of, S't. Benedict's Private Hospital, Melbourne, where he is suffering a serious; nervous breakdown, lie lias been ■ordered a long rest. Mr' A. J. Wynne, Chief Electrical Engineer, N.Z. Railways, with the Mectrical signalling executive, and the contractors, who have been inspecting the' automatic signalling, system on the Christchurch-Greyriiouth Hine, left this inorning for Christchurch. The following were passengers by this morning’s outward express: — Mesdames : ; C. S- Jackson, T. -1). Fraser, Kennedy, Misses z S. Kelly, Gibbs, Messrs ~J. Cooper,, J. D. Fraser, J. S. Robertson, A. R. Ayson, R- ‘Thompson, J. R. Smith, , H. B. Manttan, ,J. J. Oates, G. Wilson, Munjeson.

The death took place at Christchurch on Thursday of Mr Andrew Stevenson, formerly a well-known resident of Hokitika. Deceased, who was 63 years <jf age, was born at Barhead, Scotland, in 1862, and was brought to New Zealand by his, parents a year later, landing at Port Chalmers in the ship Victory. ,On the opening up of the West Coast Goldfields his parents came to Hokitika. For five years he was Dy Cullen and Co., and then began his connection with Messrs t ,J. .Chesney and Co., .merchants, and, he joined the-firm in 1896. Later, when the fjirm [dissolved, he removed, to Christchurch, .iyh’ere he, .had been.’in business for the past 20 years. Deceased, when in Hokitika, was for’ some yek’fs .jCKajohan. of the Westland Racing ‘Club. He has been'' in illhealth for some time past. ..Deceased leaves a jnqthpr (Mrs D.;, Stevenson, senr., of Hokitika), a widow., p daughter (Miss’'Elsie Stevenson). a»fQn (Mr David Sfeyensoh), l two brothers (Robert of Tauniapanui, apd David of Hokitika') and two . sisters (Mrs A» Aitken and Mrs J aides iting, bbtli of Hokitika).