PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1929, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs M. Musson, ©f Blaketown, left this morning for Christchurch.

Miss Jean Hambleton left this morning for Christchurch, bn holiday.,

Mr' P. Duffy, of Wanganui, who has been visiting his father, Mr W. Duffy, returned to-day to the North Island.

Miss Mary Phelan, who is a patient at Lewisham Hospital, Christchurch, was successfully operated on to-day.

Mr A. J. Shaw, formerly assistant master at Cobden School, left Greymouth this morning to take a similar position at Invercargill.

A Cape Town cablegram announced the death of Sir Thomas Smartt, aged 71. He was the “father” of the Union Parliament.

Mr West, of Collins, Harmon, and West, of Christchurch, who has been visiting Greymouth, returned this morning.

Mr S. Crooks, who has been visiting his brother, Mr J. Crooks, at Greymouth, left by to-day’s express on his return to Dunedin.

Mrs Freeman Holmes and Miss Daphne Holmes, who have been visiting Mrs Thornton, of the Albion Hotel, left by this morning’s express on their return to Riccarton.

General Higgins, has appointed Colonel Levi Taylor, Chief Secretary of the Army in New Zealand. With his wife, he will arrive this week at Auckland from Canada.

Sir Clifford Sifton, long prominent in Canadian politics and in business as a newspaper publisher, died from heart disease yesterday. He was aged 67. /

Recent arrivals at the Albion Hotel include:—Misses Parkinson and Hardy, Mr H. A. Benham (Wellington), Mr C. Goodman, Mr C. D. Burns, Mr W. R. Duffy (Christchurch), Mr G. 0. Greening (Richmond), Mr Peck (Hokitika), Mr A. M. Brotherstone, Mr E. A. Rodd.

The death took place at Westland Hospital on Tuesday of Mr Ernest I. Millner, who had been an inmate for the past 17 years. The deceased was a native of Hau Hau, 52 years of age, and was single. He suffered from heart trouble. He leaves a sister (Mrs W. Kerr, of Hokitika), and two brothers (Mr’ James Millner of Hokitika and Mr William Millner of Kanieri).

It is reported from Rotorua that Brigadier H. B. Potter, who accompanied Major-General R. Young on his inspection of the 18th Battery now in camp at Arawa Park, was compelled to go into King George Hospital, Rotorua, as the result of a chill received when at Waiiiku. His condition is somewhat serious (telegraphed our Auckland correspondent).

Guests at Revington’s Hotel:—Mr and Mrs E. W. Gualter (Wendon Valley), Mr and Mrs Perkins (Bydone), Mr and Mrs W. Monteith (Reeftpn), Mr A. Read, Mr H. E. Walshaw, Mr Ackroyd (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Scott (Sydney), Mr W. H. Ring (Auckland)./