PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 3 December 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr .1. D. Lynch returned on Saturday from Christchurch. Miss M. Serbrrk. ..f Kumara,'left on Saturday on a holiday visit tn Wairoa. A London <;i bh-gram records the death of Sir John Murray, publisher, Bishop Bn.dir, who has |»r Cn visiting South Westland, returned t n Christchurch on Saturday. A cable from Oslo records the death of the former Premier of Norway M. Gunnar Knudsen. Mr S. TTanderson. of Meatrs’s Mill. Rotomanu. met with an accident last [week, severely injuring his foot through a flitch of timber falling on it. Mr Marsh, recently appointed Chief Goods Clerk at the Greymouth Railway, in succession to Mr C. Williams, who has been transfererd to Melton, arrived here last Saturday evening.

Enquiry made at the Greymouth Hospital last night elicited the information that the condition of little Mis« Chanfley wa§*still serious. Messrs IT. E. Holland, M.P., and Ja«. O’Brien, M.P., left on Saturday for Wellington, where they will attend the session of Parliament opening to morrow. Mr T. Lanini, of Arnold Siding mill, is at present a patient at the Grey River Hospital, having cut his foot with an axe in the course of his employment. Only recently he met with a more serious accidentMr R. O’Donnell, who has been acting as accountant at the Union S.S Coy’s Greymouth Office, during the absence of Mr L. Anderson, returned on Sat unlay to Christchurch. Mr n. A. Penn (District Railway Traffic Manager) and J. McNair (Di* Itrict Engineer) returned to Christ church on Saturday. The death of a very old West Coast pioneer, Mr Daniel Pyne, occurred at the Westland Hospital on Saturday Deceased, who was a native- of Ire-

land. had been sixty years in New Zealand, and was 86 years of age. He had resided for many years in the Kumara district, and had not been long an inmate of the Hospital. The funeral takes place at Hokitika this afternoon. Mr Paul Fogarty, eldest sou of Mr and Mrs M. J. Fogarty, of Greymouth, passed in all subjects jn his fourth examination in medicine recently at Otago University, and now w(’l com plete his training by joining one of the larger hospitals for a term of 12 months. The marriage takes place to-day at Wellington of Miss E. G. Moldrum, daughter of Mr W, Meldrum. S.M., of Greymouth, to Mr F. E. Coote. of the Head Office Inspectorial Staff of the Bank of New Zealand, and formerly manager of the Bank’s branch at Greymouth. Mr W. Meldrum, S.M., left on Saturday to be present at the ceremony. A cable from San Francisco states that Captain W. Bd’L who has been associated with the Matson Coy for the past several years, has replaced Captain Drummond, who has resigned as master of the Pacific liner “Sonoma.” and the vessel sailed for Australia on Friday with a full passenger list and a large Christma* mail.