PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 January 1926, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr G. Kear, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned on Saturday.

Miss A. McKnight will leave for Dunedin by to-morrow’s express.

Mrs F. M.; Dennehy and family, will leave for Christchurch this week, and will reside there for a lew months.

Mr E. Sherlock, of the Westport Post Office staff, left this morning for Wellington.

Mrs A. T. Dowell, Devon Street, who has been visiting Christchurch, returned on Saturday.

Mrs H. McLauchlan, Cobden, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned on Saturday.

Miss N. Hopkins, of Greymouth, has been appointed sole teacher at Lynton Downs School, Canterbury.

Mi- and Mrs J. McGinley, and Miss A. McGinley, will leave to-morrow for Dunedin on holiday.

Mr W. P. Scanlon, of Westport, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned to the Coast on Saturday.

Mr J. Shrives, accompanied by his son Joseph, will leave for Dunedin on business to-morrow morning.

A Reuter’s. cablegram from London announced the death of Mr W. E. Pease, M.P,

Messrs G. Saunders and C. Guy, who .have been visiting Australia, returned to Greymouth by Saturday’s express. .

Messrs H. J. Bignell and R. Wild, members of the Canterbury Education Board, returned to the West Coast on Saturday.

Mrs 1. Whittaker, Wellington, arrived on Saturday on a visit to her parents, Mr and Mrs W. Sampson, Albert Street.

The death is announced from Nelson of Mr J. W. Milroy, a noted rifle shot, and formerly New Zealand champion.

Miss D. K. Richmond, Wellington, who has been visiting Mr and Mrs R. H. Richmond, Buccleugh Street, returned north this morning. -

Misses Geraldine and Daisy Bayfield (Westport), who have been visiting their sister in Tauinarunui, are spending a few days in Christchurch before rettirnng to the West Coast.

Mr R. Spencer, of Messrs Hunter and party’s co-operative coal mine at Dunollie, was admitted to the Grey Hospital on Saturday, suffering with diphtheria.

My B. Sword, Assistant Divisional .Superintendent of Railways, Christchurch, was a passenger on Saturday’s inward express. Mrs Sword accompanied him.

- Mr and Mrs W. T. Slee, who have been visiting Dunedin, arrived from Christchuijch on Saturday, and left for Westport to-day.

Appointments are announced of Mr H. W. C. Mclntosh to be Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, and Mr F. H. Watters to be Chief Surveyor.—Press Assn.

Mr and Mrs Cyril Brandson, of the Landing, who have been visiting relatives in Australia and Tasmania, ar-, rived back on the West Coast on Saturday.,

Mr J. Michel, of His Majesty’s Theatre, Wellington, will arrive at Greymputh by to-morrow’s express, and will .be the guest of Mrs F. Galland, Tainui Street.

Mr and Mrs Jonathan Holden and Mr J. Greer, who have been visiting the Franz Josef Glacier, left for Westport {his afternoon, and proceed to Nelson to-morrow.

Mr Jielson Jones, general manager of the National Electrical and Engineering Coy., and Mr J. S. manager for Christchurch and Westland, arrived on Saturday? They return to-morrow.

Mrs Charles Cook (Thompson Street) who has not been in good health for some months, took a “serious turn last week. Mr C. Cook, who underwent an operation in the hospital, is as welj as can be expected.

Mr Jas. Little, son of the late Mr Archibald Little, died at Wellington yesterday, collapsing after an operation. The late Mr Little, who Was a native of Hokitika, held the position of Inspector for Messrs Hannah and Co. He was a widower, with no family, and well known at Greymouth and Hokitika. His sister, Mrs M. Moore, of Hokitika, left for Wellington this morning. The funeral will take place in Auckland.

A cablegram from Brussels records the death of Cardinal Mercier, the leader of the Catholic Church in Belgium, who came into great prominence during the war oil account of the courageous hand taken by him during the German invasion of Belgium in upholding the rights of his country. Cardinal Mercier,. realising that his end was approaching, summoned his servants, and he joined with them in reciting prayers for the dying. A cablegram from Brussels stated that weeping, praying crowds surrounded Cardinal Mercier’s house during his last hour’s. Cardinal Mercier received the Last Sacrament, and then said “Now 1 am ready to die in peace.”

The death occurred at Paraparaumu, on the Manawatu line, on December 27 last, of Mrs Campbell, wife of Mr Duncan Campbell, formerly manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Greymouth. She had been ailing for some month? prior to her death. She was the third daughter of Major James Ronald Martin. Mrs Campbell was born in Allahabad (India). She was educated in England and the Continent, and. came to New Zealand. Upon the death of her father the family settled in Auckland, and it was there that she met and married Mr Duncan Campebll. In addition to her husband, she left three sons, Duncan, an engineer in Singapore, Eoin, a captain in the Cameron Highlanders, during the war, and Alastair, an Architect in jLondcm. The Last two were born in .Greymouth..