PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

• Mr and Mrs F. Dennehy left, this morning for Timaru. ' i ’

Mr E. Gilmour, brother of Mrs JMcLean, left by to-day’s express for Christchurch.

Mr Joseph Stenhouse (Blackball) will leave for Auckland, via Nelson, on Monday, on an extended holiday.

The Misses S. and A. Welsh (Tai Tapu) are thp guests of Mrs J. Byall, Murray Street.

Rev. J. F.'Martin, who has been attending the May, ministers’ meeting in Westport, returned last evening.

Mr C. Kennelly, formerly of the “Grey River Argus” staff, left to-day en route to Sydney;

Mrs J. -Behan, who this week underwent an operation at Lewisham Hospital, is progressing favourably. Mr W. H. Weaver (Roxburgh) arrived by motor this afternoon, on a visit to Mr and Mrs W. Weaver,, Marsden Road. ■ ■

Miss Greive and Mr Laughton 01 the Edna ’Thomas Company, left ior Christchurch to-day. The company appeared at Westport last evening. V ,

Miss Bade, Mount Street, who has been on a three months’ holiday to Nelson,, returned to Greymouth yesterday* ' s '

Captain. Alice Young, of the Salvation Army Island Bay Boys’ Home, is visiting Greymouth, being the guest of Mrs Ackland, Kaiata.

T A cablegram from Paris stated that the Maharajah of Gwalior is seriously ill, and Lord Dawson was hurriedly sUihmohed by aeroplane. He decided upon, an immediate operation.

Mrs Bowler and Miss Olds .were pasjsengers/By to-day’s express for Christchurch, after a visit to Ross, where theyvwere the guests of v Mrs Asken and Miss. Campbell Boyle, ,

Mr. F. J. Johnstbn, secretary' of the Greymouth Licensed yictualjprs’ Association, left this morning for \Vel. lington, where he will attend a conle^noe.: . . .

Mr W, H. Kilgour, of Christchurch, is visiting .Greymouth. He is accompanied by his daughter, Mrs W. Hoare. They leave for. Reeftbn this evening, proceeding to Nelson nfext week.

A Reuter’s cablegram from London announced the death of Earl Ypres ‘(Marshal French), C6niniander-in T Chief of the British Expeditionary Force 1914-15. He had been ill for some time. He was born. at Ripple Vale (Kent) in 1852.

s Particulars regarding the. dea,th ol Mrs I. .Brown,-wife of Mr Christopher Brown, of Runanga, which took place in the Mediterranean recently 4 . have teen received By Rev. Father O’Regan irom: Rev;; : Fathbr'.Long, ■ who was; al fellow passenger oil the Homeward voyage. The deceased had not been in good health for some time; < and her death occurred at the age bf 56 years. In addition to her husband, she leaves two daughters (Mrs R.. Johnstone, of Hokitika, and. Miss Beatrice;.Brown, .of Runanga), and three sons (William, a State Mine employee, arid George, living at Runanga). The youngest son, Joseph, accompanied the deceased On the voyage.

The death has Occur red -at. Blenheim of Mr Henry Sylvester Bush, aged 94. He landed at Nelson in the shin Girina in 1854. In the same year he went to Australia, where life- lived ' for- - four years, and then returned to New Zealand,, ‘settling *at ..Wair.au. He was the proprietor of tile Old Beaver Inn, and later of the .Masonic Hotel. For some time he kept, a store at Whakamarina digging?.* He, was a very old Mason, and one of , the first members of Lodge Wairau. Until incapacitated by an accident, lie was a very active member of the Blenheim Bowling Club. —Press Assn. / . : .