PERSONALS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12528, 13 April 1935, Page 4

PERSONALS

A New York message announces the deuth of Mrs. A. K. Green, the well-known fiction writer.—P.A.

At a meeting of the management committee of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union last evening, Mr. G. H. Sceats was re-elected- chairman.

Mrs H. M. Porter, who claims to be one of the oldest residents of Hastings, celebrated her 91st birthday on Monday, and observed the occasion with a small family gathering in which a handsome birthday cake with 91 candles played an important part.

At a meeting of the Southland County Council yesteiday, Mr 11. C. Gimbletf, present sceriary of the Bluff HarbOr Board, was appointed clerk to the Southland County Council; jn succession to Mr A. J. Service, who is retiring. There were 57 applicants.—P.A

Motions of condolence with the relatives of the late Messrs. George Henderson and W. B. Mill (members of the first P.B. rep. side, that of 1878), Mr. Louis Sherriff,' another strong local supporter of the game, and Mr George Neill, formerly president of the East Coast Union, were carried at last evening’s meeting of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union. A similar motion in respect of the death of Mrs. A. 11. Airey was also carried.

Ta these days, when safes play so important a part in the protect.on of property, a story of Stilpo, the philosopher ,which has survived since 300 8.C., has particular charm. Demetrius, who was known as the “Taker o'f Cities” had entered .Mega r a with his army. The soldiers had pillaged the property of the inhabitants, when. Demetrius recollected that Stilpo, who sought only quiet and retirement that Hie might pursue his -studies, was among the residents. Demetrius sent for him and when lie appeared the conqueror asked if he had lost anything during the pillage. The philosopher shook hi-s head. “No,” he said, “my property is safe, for it exists only in my mind.”

“His Grace Archbishop Julius will celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as a bislicp on May 1,” states the “Church News.” “Looking through the list of retired b'shops we find that the archbishop is by the year of lit? consecration the senior living bishop of tho Anglican communion. The nearest to him as epipcopah,doyen of our communion, i r he still be alive, is Archbishop Carter, Metropolitan of South Africa, 1909-30, who ivas consecrated Bishop of Zululand in 1891 ;or Bishop-I’. H. -Beai'en, consecrated for South Rhodesia- also in that year. A very senior bishop is resident in Auckland—Bishop Ev A. Anderson diocesan of Riverina (Ncav Soutli Wales), 1895-1925.” - •

Tho new President of the Court of Arbitration, Mr' Justice Page, Ava’s born in Wellington in 1877. lie Avas -xlucated at Clyde Quay School and at Wellington College. At a comparatively early age he qualified as a barrister and solicitor, and entered into practice at Eketaliuna in 1903. He remained there until 1912 Avhen he Avas appointed as a magistrate. While in Ekctahuna he took a- keen interest in local government and Avas Mayor of the borough from 1909 to 1912. Military affairs also- engaged his active attention, and he -held the rank of major in the Ninth (Wellington! Mounted Rifles. In addition to his magisterial duties he Avas selected by the Government cn .several occasions to carry out special investigations.