PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 267, 27 October 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Goodwin, of ■Wanganui, are visiting Napier. Mrs. F. House, of Napier, is visiting Gisborne. Mr. W. H. Cook, civil engineer, Mrs. and Miss Cook, left Hastings this morning for New Plymouth. Mrs. Jex-Blake, of Gisborne, arrived in Napier this morning. Mr. Guthrie-Smith of Tutira, who has been visiting Napier, returnee! home to-day. Mr. and Airs. Sunderland, who have been visiting Napier, left by car to-day for south. Mr. H. Wise, of Dunedin, who has been visiting Mr. J. Moray Smith, Napier, returned home to-day. The Hon. G. W. Russell will open a Nurses’ Home at the Wairoa (Hawke’s Bay) Hospital on Saturday.

Mr. J. Buchanan, who is leaving Napier, has resigned from the Napier South School Committee. Mr. J. T. Crass has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Halpin ami Sapper Lawrie Halpin, who have been visiting Napier, returned to Wellington by to-day's *nail train. Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, who have been visiting Airs. Audrey Johnston, Napier, returned to Lhristchnrch this morning. Air. M'. A. Armour, headmaster of the Napier Boys’ High School, has been appointed a manager of St Paul’s Presbyterian Church. Messrs B. G. Signal!, Sinclair, and Henderson, who have been visiting Napier, returned to Wairoa bv car to-day.

Dr. Cecil Wood, Bishop of Melanesia, is at present on a visit to Nelson. Wh’ile in Wellington he had a recurrence of an attack of malarial fever.

Mrs. T. Heath and Miss Pirie who have been to Wellington to meet Private Gordon Pirie, who returned by the Marama, _ arrived back in Napier last evening. Airs. T. Aldridge. Napier, and Mrs. G. Meyrick. of Hawera, who iourneyed to Wellington to meet Sersreant Aldridqe, arrived back in Nanier last evening. The Hon. AV. G. Russell is due to arrive in Nanier to-night, and leaves for AVairoa to-morrow, where he is *o lay the foundation stone for the uew Nurses Home. He returns to Napier on Sunday. His private s»c’-®tary. Mr. C. J. Drake, accompanies him.

The memovv of the late Dr. A. A. Martin, of Palmerston North, who died of wounds in France, is to be nernetuated bv the erection of a bust of the deceased gentleman in the loeel hospital and the institution of a seho’arshin to assist students to take their medical degrees. The “Marlborough Express” announces the deaths of Mr. Arthur M'Beth. owner of the Branch Point sheen station. Birch Hill, and Mr. C. AV. Blackburn, contractor, ot Blenheim, aged 69. Air. M‘Beth, who died from pleuro-pneumonia at the age of 52, was born in Picton. He took part in the Boer AVar.

Two returned Hastings soldiers arrived home by the mail train last night. They were Privates J. Ball; o f Havelock North, and Le Bas. The latter had been recuperating Lis health at Rotorua for some little time. The men were welcomed at the station by the Alayor and a, number of friends.

A cable from London states that the eldest son of Sir Kenneth Anderson, the manager of the Orient Steamship Co., has died of wounds received m the fighting in France. Sir Kenneth’s second son was lost in the battleship Bulwark, which was blown un_ by an accident at Sheerness in November 1914.

The following passengers arrived in Napier by the Victoria this morning from North:—Mesdames Bell, Mclntrye, Thomas, Baker, Spires (2), Monckton, Goode, Jex-Blake, Livingstone, Gibson, Coop and two children, Drummond Jenkins, Cable Wright and child, Heaven and infant. Hortney, Braddick, Roberts, Gardiner, Colpitt, O’Donnel and infant ; Misses Baker (2), Maitai, Wairakau, Whitlock, Freeman, Cowp, Rosie, Bridges, Flynn, Desmond, Swivey, Papworth (2); Messrs Fisher, Bell, McArthur, Brenchley, Master Baker, Hollywood, Williams, Trask, Lamont, Atherfold, Thomson, Nolan, Lachariat, Arlow, Hutchinson, Archibald, Hewett, Gadsby, Baume, Bartley, Daniell, Lyons, Boothman, McNiven Kettle, Bartlett, Duncan (2), Bennett, Fairey, Brown, Jenkins, Humphreys. Nelson, Cable, .Brown Heaven, Hortney, Hales, Baker, McLellan, Payne, Camalaria, Roberts Gardner, Hooper, Roswald, O’Neill, Gibson, Master Ross, Monthey, Jordon, Flemming, Johnstone, Summer, Edmonds, Ridgway, Lewis, Gardiner, Gardiner, Papworth, Graham, Labb, Norman, Dennes, Hurley, Parker, McLoughlin.