PERSONAL NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr J. Gieseking left, this. morning, for Melbourne. . - ; - /

Mr E. Watson left to-day, on return to Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs J. Laing left, this morning, for Christchurch.

Mr C- M. Howison left to-day on return to Dunedin.

Mr J. S. Robertson left to-day, on a visit to Christchurch. 1 . >

Mr and Mrs P. Guider left by this morning’s express for Christchurch.

Miss E. Gieseking left to-day, for Christchurch.

Miss C. Gardner left, this morning, on return to Wellington. Mrs J. McGinley and Misses A. and K. McGinley left to-day, on a holiday visit to Christchurch.

Constable S. Anderson and Mrs Anderson left, this morning, on return to Timaru. .

Mr G. S. Cray, who has been visiting Greymouth after an absence of many years, left, this morning, on return to Timaru.

Mr Geo. F. Rudkin , (Wellington), Grand Warden of the 1.0.Q.F., N.Z., will arrive this afternoon from Christchurch, on an official visit to Brighter Greymouth and Golden West Lodges.

Guests at Revington’s include: — Mrs and Miss Bartlett (London), Mr Dobson (England), Dr and 'Mrs Litchfield, Mrs J. G: Smith, Mr and Mrs S. S. McMinn, Mr W. A. Millar (Wellington), Mrs Ulrich (Timaru), Mr D. Shale (Nelson), Mr A. F. Hope, Mr J. K. Lindley (Christchurch). .. . t ’

The death has occurred in Auckland Hospital of Mr Edmund Charles Browne, aged 71, widower, of Parnell, as the result a£ head injuries, received in a motor collision in the city late on Monday night. Mr Browne was well-known in Auckland business circles, being managing director of the mercery firm of C. Browne, Ltd.Press Assn.

Guests at the Lake Brunner Hotel,' Mitchell’s, last week, included the following:—Mr and Mrs E. A. H. Bunt, Mr and Mrs J. E. Phillips, Mr C.< E. Heaphy, Mr and Mrs Hepburn, Mr M. Keating, Miss C.' Keating (Greymouth), Col. W. B. playton (Brit. Columbia), Messrs C. C. Odlin (Wellington), J. F; Scott, T. L. Gibbs, J. S. Scott (Christchurch), W. H. Brent, H. J. Howison (Dunedin), J. O. Coop (Canterbury).

The death occurred last evening, at the Grey River Hospital, of Frederick William Felix, aged 56 years, a native of Hokitika. Deceased had worked as ? a railway surfaceman for the past 25 years, the last two years being at Camerons. He was, single. His. parents predeceased him,. He is survived by two brothers, E. Felix of | Christchurch, and F. Felix, Kaikoura, and one sister, Mrs R. Percy, Christchurch. Mr H. Hoffman, Greymouth, is a. cousin. The funeral will take place at Hokitika on Saturday afternoon.

A Wellington telegram announced the death of Edwin Bezar, ex-Sergeant Major, of the 57th West Middlesex Regiment, known as the “Die Hards,” in his 997th year. The “Die Hards” took an active part in suppressing that section of the Maori rebellion which kept the settlers of Taranaki Province in a fever of unrest in the early ’sixties. Bezar served in the Crimea with the Wiltshire Regiment. He was transferred to the “Die Hards” in 1857. He served at Aden during the Indian mutiny, and later in 1860 went to India, whence the regiment was despatched the same year to New Zealand. When in 1866, the 58th were recalled to England, he took his discharge in the colony, as Colour Sergt. When in 1868, the Maoris again threatened trouble on the West Coast (N. 1. he was appointed Sergt.-Major in the Wanganui district. He remained with the Defence Department till 1892, when he retired, and had lived at Wellington ever since.