PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 August 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prince of Wales is visiting Le Touquet incognito. A London cable announces the death of Lord Nunburnholme. The death at the age of 88 years is •reported from Greymouth of Mrs Margaret Finlay, relict, of Mr Phillip Finlay. Private advice of the death of Mrs. M. A. McClune at her residence in Auckland was received in New Plymouth on Friday. Mr E. M. Staee, New Plymouth, was admitted as a solicitor of the. Supreme Court of New Zealand by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, on Saturday. Mr. E ! . H. Young, Stratford, was admitted as a barrister. The death is recorded by cable from London of Admiral Sir Cvpriau Arthur George Bridge, who was Director of Naval Intelligence in 1889-94 and later Commander-in-Chief of the Australian and China station©. He retired in 1904. Captain A. E. Barlow, late master of the R.M.S. Makura, has resigned of the R.M.S. Steam Ship Company’s service. He was for over twenty-two years a master in the company’s service, and was in charge of vessels for a considerable time in the company’s San Francisco, Vancouver and intercolonial runs. It is understood that he proposes to proceed to England.

Professor H. D. Skinner, lecturer on ethnology at Otago University, left Wellington by the Maheno for Sydney on Friday, on his way to Adelaide, where he will preside over the anthropological section of the Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for the Association for the Advancement of Science, commencing in that city on August 25. Professor Skinner will represent the Otago Institute and Polynesian Society. The news of the death of Mr. H. I. Christie, who passed away at his residence on Sunday will be received with regret by a very iarge circle of friends. Mr. Christie, who was born in Scotland, came to New Zealand at an early age, 'and was for years a prominent figure in the banking life of the Dominion, having been a bank manager in a number of towns. He was best known in this district from his long association with the public life of Patea as manager of the Bank of New Zealand there. On retirinofrom active work. Mr. Christie took up residence in Wanganui, where he resided till the time of his death. To his widow and family will go out deep sympathy from a large circle of friends.