PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1926, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

.. Mr W. Kellar of Hokitika, who has been indisposed for some weeks, is visiting Gr.eymouth. .Mrs E. Brook, who has been visiting relatives in Greymouth, returned tot Christchurch this morning. Mr and Mrs T. Mallinson (Kopara), who are spending;, a few days in Greymduth, will return on Saturday next. '* -^ le tleaQi is announced from Brisbane of Sir A. S. Cowley, ex-Minister of Lands and ex-Speaker, aged 78. ■Mr B. Yeates, Wellington, is visit- - irig Greymouth, and,is the guest of Mr < F. H. Denton, Shakespeare Street. Mr J. Langdon, who, with Mrs Langdon has beGn spending portion of his furlough Zealand, left z this mdrning, en Toute for Canada. jMr J. A. C. Bayne, Chief Inspector of; Mines, who has been visiting the West' Coast Mining districts, returned this morning to Wellington.

;Miss B. Murphy, who has been spending a, few months with her sister, Mrs M. J. Fogarty, Smith Street, left this morning for New Plymouth.

A cable message from Paris, stated that the poet-politician, M. Paul Claude, now French Ambassador to Japan, has been designated to succeed Ml Berenger in Washington.

""" 1 /Messrs” P. N. Kingswell, Valentine, arid Wilson (Auckland), Directors of the New. Biver Dredging Co. Ltd., arrived on Tuesday on a visit of inspection to the dredge at Dunganville.

..The death of Mr Charles Cook, a. native of Sweden, 82 years of age took place at the Westport Old People’s Home on Tuesday, after a le'pgthy illness. He leaves a widow and two stepdaughters (Mrs W. Taylor and Miss Jellicoe).

[The Public Service Commissioner has advised Miss Phyllis Hayden and Miss Beatrice Stewart, pupils of the Grey Technical High School evening classes, that they have been successful in passing the Public Service Entraiyee Examination for shorthand typistes. ...

•The following guests are at the Post Office Hotel:—Mrs M’Farlane, Miss Mansell, Mr and Mrs Stevenson, Messrs W. D. Smith, C. A. Smith, Eaton, Ackroyd, McConchie, Drayton, Oates, Marks, W. Myers, and Raw (general secretary of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers’ National Council).

The wedding of Mr Frederick George Stanton, eldest son of Mr and Mrs G. Stanton of Preston Road, to Miss Mary Jane Gillman, eldest 'daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Gillmaji ofjNgahere, took-place at Holy Trinity Church last evening, Archdeacon Carr officiating. After the ceremony th£ wedding party motored to Ngahere, where a reception was held at the residence of the bride’s parents.

: The death of Mrs John Coulthard of Runariga, took place about eight o’clock last evening, heart failure being the cause. Deceased was a native of Durham, England, and was 75 years of age. Iler son John, was a victim of the Eggers’ murder, some nine years ago. The late Mrs Coulthard leaves seven daughters, Mesdames A. J. Boddy and L. Hunter (Runanga), Ashurst (Blackball), A. Wensley (Blenheim), and Misses Elizabeth, Mary, and Winifred Coulthard (Runanga). Her husband predeceased her about six years ago.

A pleasant' dance was given in the Oddfellows’ Hall last evening in honour of Miss Alice Hannan, who will shortly., be leaving Greymouth, The Hostesses, Mesdames T. E. Y. Seddon .and F. M., Dennehy, ensured a successful, evening by a well-arranged programme, which was tcarried. out to music by Everybody’s Orchestra, the hall being artistically decorated with coloured streamers and. flowers. A dainty supper was served at tables, th A flowers being antirrhinums and peony, roses, in. shades of pink, mauve and white.

Archdeacon. Cherrington, Bishopelect of Waikato diocese, arrived last night at Auckland, by the Mahana from England. He will remain in Auckland until the eve of his consecration, which will take place at Hamilton on Sunday, December 12. The news of the death of his wife in England last Thursday was wirelessed to him on the steamer, together with the sympathy of , the Waikato diocese. Mrs.\Cheyrinston was in, ill-health her husband left England, and it .was'"believed the trouble was a,form of rheumatism, but her death was not feared.

The . following Magisterial changes took effect yesterday:—Mr J. Salmon, transferred from Thames district, to be third- Magistrate at Wellington City; Mr F. ,W. Platts, transferred from Te Kuiti district to Thames district. taking in addition the Courts at Kawhia and Raglan; Mi’ J. Wl Roynton will in future take the country Courts from Pukekohe to Waipu, With such assistance as is necessary from the three Auckland City Magistrates; Mr R. M. Watson, to take the Courts on the Main Trunk line from Hunterville to Otorohanga, both inclusive; Mr Wyvern Wilson, in addition to the present Hamilton circuit, to take the Court at Te Awamutu.

Rev. Father J. S. O’Brien, whose ordination took place at St. Patrick’s Church on Sunday, was entertained at a social at Nelson Creek on Tuesday evening, and was presented with a stole, and wallet of notes. Among those present were, Rev. Fathers McMonagle and Maguire (Greymouth), McKay (Ashburton), Gavin (Queenstown), and Henley (Invercargill). The presentation was made by Rev. Father O’Meeghan, pastor of the parish of Ahaura, who congratulated Mrs O’Brien on the dignity attained by her son. In returning thanks, Father O’Brien said that when he, ten years ago, began his ecclesiastical studies, he had been the recipient of tokens of kindness and his holidays to Nelson Creek were the most pleasant. His experience again was one of their goodwill. In accepting their gifts and good wishes, he took them as a token .of love and kindness, and, he, on his part, would ever remember with gratitude and affection, the many kind friends he was leaving in the Ahaura parish. During the evening a musical programme was given.