PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 January 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr li. G. Dickie, M.P., left for Wellington on Parliamentary business this morning. Mr C. F. Jacobs, of the Native Trust Office, is at present staying at the White Hart Hotel. The death is reported by cable from London of Lord, and Lady Bearsted, a couple who have been ailing for many months. Lady Bearsted died in the evening and her husband next morning. A message received at Ottawa from Liverpool (Nova Scotia) announce® the death on January 18 of Mr Jason Mack, president of the. Legislative Council, who recently refused the request of the Premier to resign.—Press Association. A Pres® Association message from Auckland reports the death of Mr. William Douglas Buttle, aged 81, the eldest son of the- late Rev. George Buttle, one of the early Methodist missionaries to Now Zoaland. . I)eeease>a, who was horn in the Dominion, was formerly a land agent and accountant. Mr Charles Overton Smith, a draper of Rotorua, aged 67 years, fell and expired on the howling green, states a Press Association message from Rotorua. Deceas 'd had a previous heart attack when on the golf links. Dr. F. O. Bennett has resigned his position as senior house surgeon at New Plymouth Hospita l . He intends to enter private practice. Mr A. Amies, who has been the Dominion manager of the A.M.P. Society for the past nine years, will shortly go on six months’ leave prior to retirement from the service. He will be succeeded by Mr F. F. Mcßryde, at present manager in Queensland, who i.s due to take over on February 1. Miss Maisie Ekdahl, of the head office staff of the Farmers ’ Co-opera-tive Organisation Society, Hawera, lias severed her connection with the business in order to marry. On Saturday last Miss Ekdahl received a present, of. an entree dish as a. mark of esteem from the rest of the staff. The presentation was made by Mr G. D. Dickie, deputy-chairman of the board of directors. The ex-Empress Charlotte of Mexico is dying (states a Press Association message from Brussels). Her mind has been deranged since her husband was murdered in 1867. He wa® Maximilian. Archduke of Austria, who had become Emperor of Mexico under French auspices, only to be dispossessed b’ tT President Juarez. The Empress Charlotte was a daughter of Leopold T. of Belgium.