PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1926, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr N. B. McCullum returned from Christchurch yesterday.

Mr Gus Fagerlund, Barrytown, is an inmate ,of the Greymouth Hospital.

.Mr and Mrs 0. McLean, of High Street, returned yesterday from Palmerston North.

Mass Mcllroy arrived from Christchurch yesterday, and is the guest of Mrs Kyle, High Street.

Mrs G. Hanrahan, High Street, and Miss K. Williams, who have been visiting Christchurch, returned yesterday.

Mr and Mrs Frank Kennedy, who Jhave been spending their honeymoon in the North Island, returned yesterday afternoon.

Mr W. Webiey, Christchurch, arrived yesterday on a visit to the West Uoast, and proceeds to Reefton and Westport to-morrow.

Mr W. Mitchell of Coalgate (Canterbury), who has been visiting his mother in Stafford, will return to Christchurch to-morrow.

Mrs Ryan who has been visiting her relatives, Mrs Malone (Runanga) and MTs J. Higgins (Greymouth), will return to Christchurch to-morrow morning.

The death is announced from London of Colonel Walter Karri Davis, a prominent figure in connection with the Jamieson raid and the succeeding Boer War.

< Rev. Father Ainsworth, for many years a resident' of Greymouth, who has been doing mission work in Queensland and Sydney, returned to Wellington last week.

A London cablegram stated that the King granted an audience to RearAdmiral, A. F. Beal, first member of the New Zealand Naval Board. His Majesty invested Rear Admiral Beal with the Commandership of the Bath.

The death is announced from Auckland of Mrs Kate McKosh Clark, aged 78 years, widow of James McKosh Clark, who was Mayor of Auckland,’ from 1880 to 1883. She wrote a number of works on Maori folk lore, as well as books of poems.

■ A message has been received at Hamilton reporting the death in England on Thursday last, of Mrs Cherrington, the wife of the Bishop-elect of the nzw Anglican diocese of Waikato. .The announcement caused widespread regret, and a wireless messfege of condolence has been despatched, conveying the sympathy of/the diocese to the Bishop, who is travelling on the Malieno, and will reach,. Auckland on Thursday. Mrs •Cherrington has been in impaired health for some time, suffering from rheumatism. —Press Assn. '( —-■ ■. Mrs M. Hannan, who is leaving Greymouth to reside in Christchurch, was entertained by friends yesterday ■at the residence of Mrs -F. Harley, Cowper Street. This evening, a farewell dance is being tendered to Mjfes Alice Hannan, in the Oddfellows’ Ball.. On Friday afternoon Mrs and Miss Hannan will be the guests at an afternoon at the residence of Mrs H. Hambleton, Puketahi Street. During Mrs,. Hannan’s long residence in Greymouth she has taken active part in.. movements for the good of the town, .and was. notably identified with lopal efforts during the Great War. She was prominent among the helpers during the Influenza epidemic in 1918, and has been prominent in works of charity. Miss Alice Hannan has been an able assistant, and her efforts wherever they were called for, have been;appreciable.