PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 20 July 1922, Page 3

PERSONAL

Rt Rev Dr Sadlicr, Bishop of Nelson is at present on a visit to Christchurch, seeking medical advice. Air J. Sullivan, who returned from » Australia owing to the serious illness of his brother. Air Tom Poll: rd, is visiting Greymouth. Dr G. Teichelman, of Hokitika, who has left for Wellington, will deliver illustrated lectures there on the scenic and other resources of the West Coast. The editor of the “New York Times” (the most pro British paper in the United States), Mr Charles AUill, is dead, after holding the position for 40 A cablegram from Paris records the death of Leon Boyle, the French tenor who was regarded as the finest Don Jose who ever appeared in Carmen. He was aged fifty-one. Air I*. V. Sharp, Public Accountant ami Auditor, of Christchurch, erstwhile Instructor of the Commercial (’lasses at the local Technical School, is juiying a brief visit to the Coast. One of (he best known journalistic veterans in New Zealand, Mr John I Hardcastle, who has been forty years on the staff of the Timaru “Herald,” holding all positions from reader to editor in succession, is now retiring on superannuat ion. In the death of Mr Joseph Elliott, | aged 82, who passed away on Tuesday, j Granity lost one of its oldest and most highly-esteemed residents. Deee: sed worked at Wallsend, later at Denniston and Cranity as a deputy for the Westport. Coal Company. He was also a drummer in the Granity Band. Deceased leaves a grown-up family. His wife predeceased him by eighteen moot hs. A pretty wedding was celebrated al Waimangaroa on Tuesday when Mr A. J. Watson, son of Mr and Airs < f. Watson, of Waimaugaroa, was married to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Brail ley, of Waimangaroa. Rev Tooley performed the ceremony. The , bride was given away by her father, j Mr Harold Watson acted as best man. Mr and Mrs ’Watson later left for Hokitika on their honeymoon. The funeral of the late Bandsman W. F. Mason, N.Z.E.F., took place at Ross yesterday. The Ross returned soldiers turned out and accorded the deceased a military funeral. The coffin was placed on a gun-carriage, and was drawn by returned men from deceased’s residence to the cemetery. A firing party fired volleys over the grave, and Bugler Christensen sounded the “Last Post.” A large number of | people representative of the Coast. • from Reefion to South West!:.ml, at- J tended to pay their last respects to Mr ALason, who was universally esteemed by all who knew him.