PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Sir . Ernest Rutherford has been •elected President of the Royal Society.

The late Lord Cheylesmore “Father” of the Btsley Rifle ( Meeting, left an estate valued at

Mr P. £ow (Brunner), who has been visiting Nelson, has returned' much benefited in. health.

Mr ,C. Davies, managing director of the Dobison Coal Coy., Ltd., returns from Sydney on Monday, and will arrive in Greymouth on Tuesday.

Mr S, Smart, of Glenavy, is visiting his. son, Mr G. Smart, Marlborough Street.

Mr F, Smith, of Greymouth, has been engaged to sing the tenor solos in the oratorio “Elijah” at Dunedin, next February .

Nlu jVy. Stevenson, formerly solo cornetist in the Greymouth Municipal Band, arrived from Wellington yesterday on holiday.

Mrs A. Stevenson, Reefton, who has been oh a visit to her daughter in . Melbourne, returned by yesterday’s express, en route to Reefton.

Mr Joseph Shrives, who has been bn holiday for the past eight months, visiting Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne, returned yesterday afternoon.

Captain R. Leech, for many years Harbourmaster at Westport, and now attached to the Shaw Savill Shipping Company, is the gueet of Mr and Mrs H. Carter, Kamaka.

A cablegram from Sydney stated that Sir Frapcis' Colchester Wemyss, a prominent -British Red Cross worker and his wife, had arrived, en route to New Zealand 1 . 1

Mr Frank Campbell, H eadmaster of the Otago High School, who lias beetn on an, extended tour of Great Britain, left by the R.M.S. “Orama” on November 13, on his return to New Zealand, and is due at Sydney on December 24.

Mr Thos,, McKenzie, District Grand Master of the United Westland District M.U.1.0.0.F., died at Westport on Monday morning. His funeral took place this, afternoon. For many years deceasiri : wag employed by the Westport Trotting Club as caretaker of their property.

Mr T." P. O’Connor, the “Father” of the House of Commons, tendered l a luncheon .to’ Mr T. M. Wilford, the of the New Zealand Parliament. The Dominion Secretary, Mi’. Amery, sppnt an- hour' in their comP ai ?y, pacing the House of Commons Terrace and listening to reminiscences, (stated a London cablegram).