PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 396, 19 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Hall are visiting Napier. Mrs. Ngata, wife of Hon. A. T. Ngata, returned home to-day after spending a few days with Mrs. E. J. Harnden of Hastings. Mr. H. M. Butterworth, of Wanganui College, has received a commission in the Rifle Brigade (the 95th Rifles), and is in training at Aidershot.

Mr. C. R. Brown, of Christchurch, has been appointed Woodwork and drawing instructor for the Hawke’s Bay Education Board in the Gisborne district.

Mr. E. W. Burton, S.M., formerly of Auckland, who has been acting as stipendiary magistrate of the Central Otago circuit, has been transferred to the Russell circuit. He will take up his new duties at the beginning of next month. Mrs. M. J. Cassidy, of Hastings, who underwent an operation on Tuesday last at Nurse English’s private hospital, under Drs. N aim, of Hastings, and Moore, of Napier, is, her many friends will be glad to learn, making wonderful progress towards convalescence.

Messrs. C. L. Mackersey, James Macfarlane and Dr. Barcroft, who have been on a visit to the Bay of Islands, returned to Hastings yesterday. At Kawakawa the party nad an enjoyable time king-fishing, securing some gqod _ batches, the largest fish landed weighing 401 b. Mr. Hugh Mackie, a well known Thames resident, died suddenly at his residence on Wednesday night, the cause of death being heart failure. His funeral was attended by rtiembers of the fire brigs-de, afid the firebells were tolled, as deceased was formerly engine keeper at Shortland.

Passengers coming to Wellington bv the R.M.S. lonic from London, due on March 30th, include Captain E. L. Siddall, Mr. W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. B. Adams, the Rev. E. K. Mules (of Christchurch), and Mrs. and Miss Mules, Mr. and Mrs. G. Beattie, and Mr. J. G. Barclay. Th© lonic left London on February Hth. An old and respected resident of Lyttelton, in the person of Mr. Jas. Meikel, passed away suddenly at his residence. Dampier’s Bay, on Monday evening. Mr. Meikle had been a servant of the Lyttelton Harbour Board for the past twenty-eight years. He was seventy-three years of age, and leaves a widow and a grown-up family. Mr. F. Lewis, a very old identity of Ashburton, died on Tuesday morning at the age of eighty-one years. Mr. Lewis was born in Wales in 1834, and ho emigrated to Australia, where he worked as a veterinary surgeon. The heat there did. not agree with him, and in 1869 he came to New Zealand, landing in Wanganui with his wife and two children, one of whom was Mr. J. J. Lewis, of Ashburton, and the other Mrs. Blackburn, now living in the North Island.

Advice has been received at Palmerston of the death in Egypt of Bandwaster B. J. Simpson, with the main Expeditionary Force, following upon an operation. He was wellknown in the Wairarapa, Canterbury, and Hawke's Bay in connection with brass bands. He was for three, vears champion cometist the Dominion. He was appointedbandmaster of the Regimental Band of the main camp at Awapuni. He' was a son of Nurse Simpson, of Palmerston, and had two brothers at Ashburton, one sister, at Carterton, and three others At Palmerston.— Press Association.

The death is announced in Taranaki of an ex-Canterbury reisdent, in the person of Mr. J. J- Elwin. The deceased was educated at Morton Hall, City of London School, and Bruce Castle, and studied with his father, for the medical profession, but on account of delicate health ho came to New Zealand in .1886, and joined Messrs. Henry and Robert Skeets’ survey party in Hawke’s Bay, and was subseqeuently offered the headmastership of the Clive School, which he accepted. The Maori war out, he took up school appointments in Canterbury. The teaching profession, did not appear to agree with the late Mr. Elwin’s health, and he relinquished it and commenced farming. He went to Taranaki. He married, at an early age, the second daughter of Mr. F. Rossiter, of Christchurch, and leaves a Widow and six children.