Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 214, 12 August 1918, Page 4

Personal.

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Barker, of Gisborne, arrived in Napier by,boat this morning, on a holia&y visit. Mr. T. Clarkson, President of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, left for Wellington this morning. Mr. Thomas Bain, who has been attending the Y.M.C.A. Conference as a delegate returned to Dannevirke this morning. Messrs W. Saunders, B. Brown, N. Crerar, F. Cununings, and J. Hurley arrived in Napier by special car on Saturday from Wairoa, The Hon. Geo. Fowlds, who has been attending the Y.M.C.A. Conference at Hastings, left by the mail train this morning for Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. P. Cunningham, of Dannevirke, and Mr. and Mrs. Guth-rie-Smith, of Tutira, are at present visiting Napier, and are at the Masonic. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Lysnar, also Mrs. De Latour, sen., of Gisborne, all arrived by mail train on Saturday from the’South and return North by the Arahura to-night. Mr. Thomas Austen, who has been a resident of Napier for nearly 50 years, died on Saturday at the ago of 74 years. He leaves a grown-up family of seven, 23 grand children, and three great grandchildren. He was employed for many years on the Government railways. The staff of the Christchurch Lands Office met on Wednesday to farewell Mr. A. C. R. Anderson, who has been transferred on promotion to Auckland. Mr. W. 11. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Lnnds, presented Mr. Anderson with a suitably inscribed travelling bag. Mr. W. D. Bayley. B?A., who is now visiting Hawke's Bay in the interests of the prohibition campaign, is a prize medallist of the .Manitoba University in )>olitical economy, and is a specialist in history and citizenship for the High. School of Winipeg. He also hold* the office of Vice-President of the. Labour party of Winnipeg. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, has been endorsed Ify a conference of Democrats as their candidate for United States Senator from Michigan. Ford is known ns a Republican. Endorsement of a Republican candidate by a Democratic conference is without precedent in Michigan. Ford’s immense war equipment production, his voluntary rejection of ail “war profits.” and his famous policy of paying no employee loss than £1 for an 8-nour work day, have made him one of the most-talkf'd-of men in the United States. President Wilson urged Mr. Ford to accept (he nomination, aud the manufacturer did so. The great honour of Marechai de France is given only to those who have won two hattles of a decisive character. It was bestowed upon Joffre upon his retirement from the post of Commal'der-iu-Chief of the French armies, in recognition of his victories on the Marne, the Aisne, and at Verdun. Owing to the Jong peace before the present war the title had been in obeyanee, but it was revived with great enthusiasm in favour of Joffre. Now Foch, after his successes in the stemming of the tide of the enemy al tack on the Ar-ras-Monldidier front in April* and in breaking the Marne offensive, is raised to equal dignity, and for the first time since the Second Empire France has two soldiers bearing the bat o n.