Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 349, 7 February 1917, Page 6

Personal.

The Mayoi’ of Hastings (Mr. A\. Hart) returns from A\ ellington this evening.

Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., of Napier, is staying at the Hotel Windsor while in Wellington.

Sergeant G. P. Aldridge, left Napier by mail train yesterday morning on a month’s visit to Hawera, and district.

Corporal J. Jones, of Napier South, is returning home on the hospital ship due in New Zealand about March 4th.

Mrs. and Miss Small (Otane), Mrs. Krogh (Hastings) and Miss E. French (Waipukurau) left this morning on a motor trip to Gisborne, Taupo and Rotorua. Mr. P. Pasley, who has been on the staff of Messrs Robjohns, Hindmarsh and Co., at Napier, for the past 15 years, has been appointed New Zealand representative of a large Australian firm. Mr. Chas. Hannah, of the Napier Post and Telegraph Department, who was recently an inmate of the Napier Hospital, left Napier by the mail train yesterday morning on a visit to the South.

Mr. S. Crabtree, of England, has accepted the offer of the Dunedin Fanciers Club to judge dogs at their championship show in July.—Press Association.

Mr. S. A. Noble-Campbell, cten tist, of Masterton, has accepter a position with a military Service medical board, and is proceeding to cne Auckland district to take up his duties.

Mr. Samuel Dawson Hanna died at his residence, Domain Drive, Parnell, on Bunday, at the age ot 64 years. Deceased is survived by his widow and seven children. One son is in the Motor Patrol Service, and another with the N.Z.M.C. in France

Mr. R. Brathwaite received the sad news from Auckland to-day that his son, Norman, had died there this morning. Deceased had been ailing for several years, and was never of a robust nature. The body is being brought to Hastings for interment. Private advice was received at Auckland on Monday that Lieut. Wilfred Callender, of tne Worcestershire Regiment, second son of Mr. William Callender, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was killed in Mesopotamia on January 25. Lieut, Calender was a single man, about thirty years of age. Mr. N. A. Ching, who was for many years a member of the staff of Kennedy, Lusk, and Morling, Napier, and who now resides at Auckland, has been accepted for active service. Mr. Ching previously enlisted at Napier, in the Main Body, and went into camp, but was subsequently discharged through ill health.

Mr. C. J. Ronaldson, who has been promoted to the position oi manager of the Christchurch branch of the National Bank of New Zealand after occupying the position of manager of the Invercargill brand, for eight and a-half years, was tendered a farewell luncheon at Invercargill by members of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce and the Southland League. At a meeting of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Wellington, and presided over by the Right Rev. Monsignor M’Kenna, V.G., a purse of sovereigns was presented to the Rev. Dr. Kelly, who is about to take over the editorship of the New Zealand ’’Tablet,” as a slight .token Oi their affection and esteem. Dr. Kelly is a graduate of the Irish College, Rome, and a nephew of the Most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney.

Mr. Walter Everitt, who has occupied the position of manager of the King’s Theatre, Hastings, Loj, nearly four years, has resigned. Mr. Everett joins the firm of Messrs. Le Quesne and Cowan and takes up his new duties in the course of a fewweeks. During his long connection with the King’s, Mr. Everett has made himself deservedly’ popular, and his many’ friends, and picture patrons in particular, will wish him every success in his new sphere of action.

Mr. Donald M'Lean, of Hawker street, AVellington, has received advice that his two sons, Sergeant J. A. M'Lean and Private A. R. M’Lean, are being invalided home, and are expected to. arrive here the first week in March. There is a remarkable series of coincidences attached to their service at the front. They left with the sth Reinforcements, together went through the Gallipoli campaign unscathed, and later left for France, where they were both wounded on 16th September last during the Somme offensive. They were taken to the same clearing station, thence to England, and strangely’ enough were placed side by’ side in beds in the same hospital.