PERSONALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10711, 8 October 1928, Page 5

PERSONALS.

Colonel Bramwell Taylor, editor of the Canadian War Cry, a Salivation Army officer well-known r in Australia, died at Winnipeg.—Aust. Press Assn.

The New Zealand owner. Mi-. McIndoe, headed the list or winning owners at Randwick, first in the Derby and third in the Craven Plate, £6,957. Mr. Knight was seventh with £1,267 10s.—Aust. Press Assn. Mr. A. L. Tayor, of the Gisborne branch of the State lire Office leaves on Tuesday on transfer to Palmerston North. He will be replaced Here by Mr. H. McGregor of Napier, who is a well-known rumor reip. footballer. The Daily Mail states that Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Clnlds retires with Commissiloner Horwood on November 6. Viscount Byng suc-ce-ds Mr. Horwood. Sir JoynsonHioks is searching for a new assistant commissioner.—Aust. Press Assn. Life membership was conferred upon Mr. T. Holden by the executive of the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association on Saturday in recognition of his services to the Association as a past president and one of the foremost- exhibitors. In view of the arrival in Wellington, on Thursday of Miss Norma Wilson, the N.Z. lady aspirant at the Olympic Games, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Wilson, leave this afternoon for Wellington to meet her. Miss Wilson is expected to return to Gisborne a week later. The will of Mrs. Dororthea Aiele, of Leeton, N.S.W., has been lodged for probate in Sydney. It is believed that bequests totalling £6U,uuu are made to disabled and blinded soldiers in Australia. The major portion of the estate is in New Zealand.—Aust. Press Assn.

Mr. A. G. Seddon, manager of the local- branch of -the • Standard Insurance Co., has received notice of hi'S transfer, on promotion, to the position of manager of the company’s Invercargill office. Mi’. S'eiddon will take up his new duties at the end of the year. Probate has been granted at the Sydney Court of the. will of Enid Mirian Halstead, formerly oi Christchurch who left £14,379. The testatrix was the wife' 5f Percy Halstead, who with his brother Emil, of Dunedin, are executors of the estate, which is left in trust for the benefit of the deceased s children ‘ and grandchildren.—Aust. Press Assn.

The passing of Mr. T. Jex-Blake was sympathetically referred to by Mr. T. Sherratt, chairman at the annual meeting of the Poverty Lay Polo Club on Saturday. The deceased, he said, had been, a strong supporter of the club and the "game was very keen, hardly ever missing a day of the tournaments- and Ins loss was severely felt by the club. On the speaker’s motion a vote of cond'olence with the relatives was carried in -silence, members standing.

A pleasing incident took place at the close of Miss Enid Hooper’s children’s play at the Opera Hbuse on Friday evening. After the •• urtain had. been again raised to- permit of the bestowal of floral tributes on Miss Hooper and the performers, Mr Jack Robertson stepped forward and, on behalf of her pupils, presented Miss Hooper with an inscribed gold fountain pen as a mark of their esteem. Miss Hooper was- plainly taken by surprise, and, in. a; happy response, !she thanked tho donors not only for their handsome gift bMt also, for the- attention which they had paid during the rehearsals.'

Humors were rife in Gisborne yes•tehlay 'to tFfe effect that the death had occurred of Sir Joseph Ward, but happily these proved to he untrue. The reports had more than the usual foundations of rumor generally, hut were due to a confusion of names. In the Catholic Church prayers were asked in connection with'the death of Mr. Joseph Ward," a highly respected. resident of the Waipukurau district, who has relatives in Gisborne. The similarity of tlie names, was, it is easy, to understand, the foundation of the rumor of the supposed demise of the veteran statesman, which, as stated above, was entirely groundless. z