PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 August 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Misses Hilda and Molly Haldane have accepted the positions offered them as guides at Mount Cook and will leave to take up their new duties on September 10.—.Taranaki Herald. A message from New York states that- the well-known film actor, Rudolf Valentino, has suffered .a relapse. Pleurisy has developed and preparations were being made for blood transfusion. Gii Saturday night the hospital authorities said he was “very weak.” The death iii Wellington of Mrs Mary Willis, widow of the late Mr A. T). Willis and daughter of the late Joseph Dixon, is reported in .a Press Association message from Wanganui. She had lived in Wanganui -since 1865 and was closely identified with .social and civic interests. Her husband; the late Mr. A. D. Willis wias a member of the House of Representatives for many years and was also a borough councillor and chairman! of the Harbour Board. The- very large attendance and the impressive mature of the iservioes held at the funeral of the late James Stewart yesterday afternoon were a fitting tribute to his sterling character and on estimate of the high esteem in which he was held. The church service was read by Rev. R. E. Evans, of St. John’s Presbyterian, Church, Have ra. At the grave side the impressive .service of the Masonic order was read by Bros. A. J. Ching and H. W. Jackson and, there were present a large number of members of the Hjawera Lodges. The regard dn which Mr. Stewart was held by the bowlers of Havenai was evidenced by the large number present at the funeral. In the procession, too, were a number of kilties, and at the grave-side a Lament was played by Pipe-Major Murdo Mckenzie.

Dr. iaaid Mrs. W. Gordon Weston (Taranaki) arrived in London recently from their honeymoon, tour, which included New Zealand. They went via Suez and- returned via Canada, says the Taranaki Herald. Dir. Weston, who hag for so long been associated with the R.A.F., was met and entertained -at Vancouver by the Canadian Royal Air Force, states the Post’s London- correspondent. He intends now to practice his profession in London. He is sending out to St. Miary’is Church, New Plymouth, a beautiful stained glass window to be erected in memory of his father ,the late Mr. W. J. Weston, who arrived in New Plymouth in 1850, and who, on his death, was laid to rest in the churchyard. The subject of the window is “The Light of the World.”