PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 171, 3 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. Cagney, Government *ur» veyor, returned to Napier from Wairoa on Saturday. The death is reported at Sidney of Dr. Cooper, Bishop of Armidale. —Press Association. Private E. G. Oollin, reported wounded in France, is a son of Mr. G. Perron Collin, of Takapau. Mr. T. Parker, who has been on a shooting expedition to Mohaka, returned to Napier on Saturday. The Hon. Dr. McNab is now in Auckland. He returns to Wellington on Tuesday. i Mrs. H. L. Gallien left Hastings this morning for Otafte on a short holiday. Messrs. J. Josephs (Taradale) and G. Carrington (Napitr) left this morning on a holiday trip to Taupo. Mr. J. R. Cornford, Crown Prosecutor at Napier, who has been indisposed for some time, is now kuciently recovered to take up his old duties. (

Surgeon-Major Bernau is on a visit to Napier from Trentham. He leaves shortly for the Chatham Islands in connection with military matters.

The ranks of the hardy band of pioneer settlers of the Ndlson district were further thinned on 'Tuesday by the death of Mr. Hugh Kenyon, J.P., of Thorpe. Private G. W. Bousefield, of the 15th Reinforcements, whpbas been in Napier on extended sick leave, returned to Featherston i this morning. ■ Visitors to ’Napier include: —Mr. and Mrs. McKellar (Wellington), Captain Braddell and Major Prendervilfe (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Jarrett, Miss McHardy, and Mr. 8. Hawkins.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Brook-Taylor, in company with their son Pat, who has been appointed to a position in the Customs Department, 'Wellington, left Hastings for there this morning.

Mr. Clark, of Wellington, who him been relieving Mr. J. Jordan as clerk of the court at Napier dunngthe latter’s illness, returned to Wellington this morning. Mr. F. G. Hutton, of that city, is replacing Mr. Clark.

Mr. John Corbett, who for many years was farming near the mouth of the Wakanui Creek in the Seaview district, died at his residence, Burnett street, Ashburton, on Thursday morning, at the age of 75 years.

The death occurred suddenly on Saturday afternoon of Dr. _ William Brown, who began practice in Dunedin in 1874. He had retired from active work. He was a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and the Patriotic Association. —Press Association.

The remains of the late Mr. Arthur Godwin reached Hastings from Wellington by the 1.20 p.m. tram to-day and were conveyed thence to tne Havelock North Cemetery. A goodly number of friends followed the body to its last resting place, the last sad rites at the graveside being performed by the Rev. A. F. Hall. Private J. Shannon, of Hokitika, who left New Zealand with the main body and was subsequently invalided home, has .now received his discharge. He is at present visiting Napier, prior to taking up his residence in Gisborne, where he is to rejoin the Government Eubno Works Department, where he was formerly employed* ‘ The Mother-General of the Institute of Notre Dame des Mission* baa just left the mother house nf the Order, Deal, England, on a longdeferred visit to the venous house* abroad, and is expected in unruwchqrch, shortly. The MotherGeneral (Rev. Mother St; Pacome) was formerly Mother Provincial of the Order in New Zealand. Mr. D. McLaren has been holding very successful meeting* in the Poverty Bay district on the organisation of Red Cross Work. Mr. McLaren is endeavouring to create a strong army of Red Cross workers by bringing all societies and committees in New Zealand into co-operative unity with the central executive- in Wellington. Mr. McLaren arrived in Napier this morning.

The committee in charge of the “men only” Red Cross Shop find it impossible to open next Saturday. At the public meeting held «rt Wednesday to further the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, the committee guaranteed two hundred and fifty pounds from their next day and as this means a considerable amount of organisation and general work it is deemed necessary to postpone the event for a short time. The committee will meet immediately and fix a date and also maha all preliminary arrangements.

Very general regret will be exEressed throughout the whole of [awke’s Bay, at the death, after a short illness, of Mr. John G. Nimon. of Havelock North, which sad event occurred at Napier Hospital yesterday evening. Deceased, who was 54 years of age, had rasided in the dis* trict for about 26 years, 16 years of which were spent at Havelock North. The late Mr. Nimon was proprietor of the well-known line of motorbuses plying between Hastings and Havelock North. Before motor traction came into general use, he successfully ran the service with coach and horses for many years. He took a prominent part in local affairs, and was a member of the Havetock North Town Board and School Committee. He was an unright and conscientious man, and was held in the highest regard and esteem. The late Mr. Nimon was a native of Ballarat, where his mother still resides. He came from Oamaru to Hawke s Bay. Deceased leaves a widow, four sons and one daughter to mourn his loss, and for whom the deepest sympathy will be felt. The remains will be interred in the Havelock North cemetery at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday.