PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mss Thornton left yesterday on a week’s visit to Hokitika.

Mr O. McLean is at present confined to his home through indisposition. Mr A. Rigby, of Christchurch, is in Grey-mouth at present. Mrs AV. E. Reynolds will leave this morning on a holiday visit to Christchurch. Mr A. C. Truman, Railway Traffic Inspector, of Christchurch, is’ visitin'’ the West Coast. Mr D. Greenwood, of the Greymoutli Railway clerical staff, has been transferred to Ruiiang-*, F. G. Raines, of the Railway Traffic Department, will leave this morning on transfer to Dunedin. Mr J. Higgins (Grey County Engineer) and Mrs Iliggi.is, are' visiting AVellington.

Mr R. Firth, who has been relieving officer i.i charge of the Government Tourist Bureau, has received notice to ipiurn to Invercargill. During the remamder of Mr Spora’s absence on leave, Mr E. F. Dollimor e will be in charge of the office.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that Mrs Massey h-s received a cigar case from the woodwork of the Japanese cruiser IBUKI, flagship of the squadron which convoyed the main body in 1914. It was forwarded to Admiral Saito for the late Prime Minister, but only reached Sydney alter his death was announced. The death occurred in London on Thursday of Mr Andrew Fairbairn, of the firm of Fairbairn, Wright ami Cto., Christchurch. Some weeks ngo, deceased left on a trip to England, and underwent an operation last Tuasday from which he never rallied, a cablegram announcing his death being received yesterday. He took a "verykeen interest in boxing, ami was president of the Christchurch Sports Club last year. He donated the Fairbairn Cup for the most proficient amateur boxer in Canterbury. The story of ex-royalties in a middle class hotel is the subject of a London cable, stating the exiled King and Queen of Greece are staying incognito, at a middle class hotel in London, accompanied by four servants. Thev tiro remaining in England for two months, visiting relatives and friends. They would like to stay permanently, but living is costly, and funds are low. At the end of the visit, they will go to Roumania to join the Queen’s parents. They will at least learn something of life by living within a smaller income. The death of perhaps the most picturesque figure in th c political life of America is recorded in a cablegram from New York, stating that at Davton, Tennessee, Mr William Jennings Bryan has passed away. In the minds of those unfamiliar with the history of

-ryan’s repeated contests for the Presidency of the great American re-public—-against McKinley and Roosevelt —his name is likely to be associated with the recent prosecution of “Professor” Scopes (an athletic, instrustor by the way) for teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution, because Bryan took a leading part in the prosecution, though his arguments ns to the majority- rule in matters of belief

tuition were scarcely convincing. But it will be as an" exponent of the Democratic Party’s policy in its better days that Bryan will go down in history. He was one of the greatest American orators, and is generally

credited with having been, a sincere politician, hue he certainly was a politician to his finger tips. He was 65 years of age, and it is .35 years since he entered the U.S.A. Congress It was claimed that he was the greatest living stump orator. H c held office in Wilson’s Cabinet ns -Secretary of State from 1013 to 1015,