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Grey River Argus, 20 May 1947, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mi- G. H. Wilson will arrive to-day to take up his appointment as train running officer at Greymouth.

Hon. J. O’Brien, accompanied by Mrs O’Brien and Miss C. Moore (secretary), who arrived in Greymouth by air on Saturday, leave by to-morrow’s 'plane on return to Wellington.

A London cable states The death has occurred, at the age of 77 years, at her Dorset home, of the painter, Miss Francis Hodgkins,' the younger daughter of the late Mr W. N. Dodgkins, of New Zealand, and a sisicr of Mrs Field, of Wellington.

Mr P. B. Marshall, Commissioner of Supply, was urgently taken into hospital in Wellington last week. He is making a satisfactory recovery, but it will be some time before he will be permitted to return to his office.— Press Assn.

Guests at the Albion Hotel include: Mr and Mrs Madderon (Blenheim), Mr and Mrs Larsen, Messrs J. Paynter, A. Paynter, J. M. Wood, W. Caldwell, Mr and Mrs R. Ferguson (Christchurch), Messrs Sheenan (Franz Joseph), Geary (Makikihi), Meehan (Timaru), T. E. Bagent (East Taka), Miss Whisker (Makikihi), Mr and Mrs Black and family (Edendale).

A cablegram from Baltimore, capital’of Maryland State, U.S.A., states: The death has occurred of the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, who, as Archbishop of Washington and Baltimore, was the only Roman Catholic Prelate in the United States to be the head of two archdioceses. He was born at Golden Island, Athlone, Eire, in 1879, graduated from the R'oyal University of Ireland in 1900 and from the College of Propaganda, Rome, in 1901. He was ordained a priest in 1904, and was a missionary in Flordia from 1904 to 1914. He was appointed Bishop of St. Augustine by Pope Pius X in 1914, and in 1921 he was appointed Archbishop of Baltimore, to succeed Cardinal Gibbons.