PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr Writ. Goss, of Christchurch is visiting the West Coast,

Mr W. H. Montgomery will stand as a Reform candidate lor Ellesmere at the coming election.—Press Assn.

Mr W. Bolt, Wellington, who has been visiting the West Coast, returned by this morning’s express.

Mr and Mrs Chas. Preston, of Kumara Junction, left on a .short trip to Christchurch by to-day’s express.

Miss N. Baxter left this morning by the ,express .on a. holiday trip to the Cold Lakes district.

, Mrs Haskell, of Poerua, who has been discharged from the Grey Hospital, left for her homo this morning. ’*

Nprse Hogan, who has been a patient of the Grey Hospital for some weeks, left this, morning.' for Auckland on a. recuperative holiday. She *was. accompanied by her mother, Mrs Morris.

Mr F. E. Coote,' who has handed over the management of the Greymouth branch of the Bank of New Zealand to Mr A-. ,H. Carey, will leave to-morrow fpr Wellington, via Nelson, to take up His new .duties.

Mr “Rod”- White, of Cobden, left this morning for the North Island, to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs J. White, who died yesterday at Ngaruawahia, at the age of 77 years.

An Auckland telegram announced the death of Mr Charles Langford, many years a city tailor, just in his hundredth year. He arrived in New Zealand seventy-five years ago with a detachment of the Royal Engineers. — Press Assn.

Messrs R. S. Kent (Divisional Superintendent), A. J. McCreadie (District Engineer for Canterbury), H. Chapman (Distinct Traffic Manager), and A. W. Wellsted (Commercial Agent), who have been visiting the. West Coast, on Railway matters, returned this morn, ing to Christchurch.

The Jndian, Prince Maharaj Rana Sir Bliwani Singh Bah.aduJ, of Thalawar, will arrive‘at Auckland from Sydney by the Aqrangi on July 6, and Will tour the Dominion as the guest of the Gobernment of New Zealand. Prom Auckland he will proceed to Rotorua. Then hd visits .Hamilton, the Ruakura State Farm) the Waitonio caves, Te Kuiti and Wellington. Then he goes’ to Christchurch and Dunedin, and pcs•sibly Queenstown. He will leave Wellington towards the end of July for the United States. —Press Assn.

Mrs Annie Hill, of Brunnerton, died at the Greymoutli Hospital last evening, aged 66 years. Deceased, who was born in Ireland, had .resided at Brunner for 45 years. She had been in ill health for about two months. < Her husband, Mr William Hill, has been an inmate of the Grey Hospital for some time, and ’- she also leaves six daughters and one son. The interment will take place privately. Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church at 9 a.in. to-morrow.