PERSONALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10741, 12 November 1928, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Blackburn are a holiday visit to Auckland. The Bishop of Waiapu. Dr. S*; wick, conducted both services Holy Trinity Church yesterday. A London cable message announ the death of Mr. Percy Gilpin, well-known racecourse traine: Aust. Press Assn.—United Service A Washington cable states that William Cochran, jnr.. of Pennsyl nia. has been designated vice-Con at Auckland.—Aust. Press Assn. Says a London cable: “OscarAs who .is re-appearing in an abbrevia version or Chu Chin Chow, says :t merely an experiment and hopes the new year to -r-e-produce the I version at a West End theatre.'’ Advice has been received that- 91 ixathleen Hall, of Auckland, i aboard the Tango Mara, vh grounded near Thursday Island Sunday week. Miss Hall, who i* sister of Mr M. T. B. Hall, of Han roa, was en route to China, where bad "been engaged previously in c sionary work. Mr. J. 0. Duncan, statioumaste r| Auckland, retires next- WednesJ ittter 38 years’ service in the R *vs ay Department, states ah AucklJ message. _ Mr. H. E. Evans, staid master at Frankton Junction, succeed him, and Mr. E. Clarke, Lyttelton, win go to Frank ted Press Assn. Leading British billiardists e.ij tamed at dinner Fred Lindrum. I Australian. Those present inclal Davis, Newman, Inman, Reece I Diggle. Lindrum was given an cl ttoii when he was introduced te I gathering at the Daris-Nevrl match at Thurston’s.—Aust. J’J Assn. I The office of His Majesty's Til Commissioner in Wellington has I ceived cabled advice of the death! November 8, after a short illness I Mr. R, W.'Matthew, C.M.G., Cil uer of the Legion of Honour, I

director of_ the Empire trades economic divisions of the Departrc of Overseas Trade, London. The Air. Matthew, who was born in If entered tlie War Office in 1903, b« transferred a year later to the In of Trade, and in 1917 joined the partnient of Overseas Trade.—P Assn. Sir David Serjeant, .who is years of age, bent down to pick t U 5 r^,lc ' e rolu the floor, state London cable message. He c balanced and broke a leg, and i a critical coiidition in hospital, voyaged to Australia in 1552 ir and was ill at a crude hoff at Canvastown, Alelbourne, with corpse on eHher side, and a n dead drunk. , Sir David Serjeant* a paperhangcr, gardener, pair conveyancer, and builder’s lab< before returning to London in to resume his medical trainiu Aust. Press Assn—United Servu