PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The death of the Rt. Hon. Ben Spoor, 0.8. E., Labour member of the House of Commons, is reported by a London cable. The Death of the Earl of Dalhousie at the age of 50 years is reported by a London cable. Lord Ramsay is the heir to the earldom.

Mr G. H. Warue, Labour member of the, British House of Commons for Wansbeek, died on Monday at the age of 47, reports the United Service. Sir Charles Skerrett, Chief Justice, who has been suffering severe illness for some months, anticipates being able to: resume his Supreme Court duties during February, says a Wellington Press Association message.

Stacy Aumonier,, author of short stories and novels, died at London on Monday at' the age of 41, reports the United Service. The son of an architectural sculptor, Stacy Aumonier began his career as a decorative designer and landscape painter. He began writing in 1913 ahd contributed to the leading magazines of Britain and America. Mr Samuel Ernest McCarthy, a solicitor and formerly a stipendiary magistrate, died last evening, says a Christchurch Press Association message. Mr McCarthy had been- in vigorous health until recently, when he became ill and entered a private hospital for an operation. He had been a magistrate at Clyde, Invercargill, Napier,' Wellington and Christchurch, retiring from the bench on a pension four years ago. The Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from internal inflammation and will bo confined to his bed for some days (says a London cable dated Dec. 25). Sir Hugh Rigby, the King’s honorary surgeon, consulted with the Archbishop’s doctors, Drs Whitehead and Reid, who stated lost evening that the Archbishop passed a moderately comfortable day. He had some sleep, but the inflammation remained the same. A later message says the doctor in attendance on the Rrehbishop issued a statement that the Primate had had some sleep during the night. The pain had lessened and the inflammation, which appeared to be in' the region of the liver, was subsiding. The death is reported by cable from Rome of General Cadorna, who was commander-in-chief of the Italian forces at the commencement of the campaign against Austria in 1915. He showed great strategic skill, esecially in the summer of 1916, when the Italian defence was turned into an offensive which contributed, with the splendid Russian advance, to the collapse of Austria. After the disaster of Caporetto in October, 1917, when the flight of the second Italian army before the Germans in the Upper Isonzo Valley, compelled a general retreat to the Piave, General Cadorna' was succeeded as commander-1 in-chief by General Diaz, and was appointed to. represent Italy on the Allied War Council at Versailles. Ho was superseded in 1918 by General Giardino. '