PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 July 1931, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES

A cablegram from Rome announced the death of the Duke of Aosta.

Captain V. G. Webb has been ap pointed Marine Superintendent of th-; U.S.S. Coy.

Mr. J. O’Brien, M.P., arrived from Wellington on Saturday on a short Visit.

Mr Anthony Poschich has returned to Greymouth after spending two years in Australia.

Mi* W. Greenwood, of the Public Trust Office, Christchurch, is on a visit to his parents, Mr and Mrs A. H. Greenwood.

The death is announced from Hobart of Professor Alexander McAulay, one of the world’s most brilliant mathematicians, aged sixty-eight. He was a leading authority on the theory of quaternions.

The death is announced from Christchurch, of Mr. Charles Gonnerman Dalgety, 62, son of the founder of Dalgety and Coy. Ltd., and wellknown in racing circles.

Guests at Revington’s include: — Messrs W. Spong, J. Buzzard (Christchurch), L. S. Cumming (Sydney). Miss M. Doyle (Westport), Mrs A. F. Downer, Mr and Mrs A. C. Simmons (Wellington),

Mr. D. P. Shannahan, president of the West Coast Branch of the Farmers’ Union, left on Saturday and Mr. J. Mulcare left this morning for Wellington to attend the Dominion Conference of the Farmers’ Union.

Mr Justice Ostler, who is recovering slowly from his recent operation, will leave Auckland this week en iroute to Samoa, where he and Mrs Ostler will be the guests of the Administrator, Brig-i-General Hart, for a month or two. The funeral of the late Mr. Joseph McEwan, of Taylorville, took place at the Karoro Cemetery yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance. The services at deceased’s late residence, Taylorville, and at the graveside were conducted by Mr. W. A. Hart. The death occurred this morning, at the Reefton Hospital, of Mrs. Mary Ellen McMahon, widbw of Mr. Jno. N. McMahon. She was born at Capleston, and was aged 50 years. She is survived by five sons, and three daughters, and one brother, Mr. H. Duggan. She recently underwent an operation. Sergeant Murray, who was recently transferred from Addington to Greymouth, has received from the Imperial Bowling Club, of which he was a member, an expression of the club s goodwill and appreciation, in the form of an umbrella, suitably engraved, accompanied by best wishes for his health and success on the West Coast.

The death took place at the Greymouth Hospital on Saturday, after an illness lasting two weeks of Mr Gavan C. Gaudion, aged 58 years, a ganger employed by the Railways Department at Otira. Deceased, who was a native of Newport, Australia, had formerly resided in Christchurch. He is survived by his wife,- and-five daughters and one son. Th® funeral will take place at Christchurch tomorrow.