Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 219, 17 August 1918, Page 4

Personal.

Mr. Louis Blundell, Managing Director of the Evening Post, Wellington, is spending a short holiday in Najfer. Miss Sylvia Udy. who has been spending a holiday with the Missea Judd at Napier, returned to Wellington to-day. The Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald, Minister of AgricultUte and Mines, who has been in the Auckland dietriel. returned to Wellington on Thursday

Miss Achison, headmistress of the Island Bay School, Wellington, who has been spending a. holiday at Napier. Tclunit'd to tiio capital city by mail train to-day.

Mr. R. W. Dalton, British Trade Commissioner, who has been on an official tour of the islands, arrived back in Auckland by the Niagara ou Wednesday. Dr. Barnett, of Palmerston North,, who has been on active service in Eurojie for two years past, has cabled out news that he will be leaving for New Zealand in September.

A motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. Thomas Tanner, was passed at the meeting of the H.B. Philosophical Institute on Thursday last.

A brother of the late Father Dore, M.C., who was recently ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, is expected to arrive in Auckland ere long.

Mr. J. A. Smith, formerly Inspector of Schools for the H.B. Education Board, and Mrs. Smith, who have been residing in England for fioinc ears, have returned to the Dominion, and are at present visiting Napier.

Lieut.-Colonel I). S. Wylie, C.M.G., arrived at Auckland by the Niagara on Wednesday and Wellington that evening by the express. He was in charge of No. 1 N.Z. Hospital at Brockenhurst, and returned to the Dominion in connection with special orthopaedic work amongst returned soldiers.

The death occurred in Sydney recently of Mr. J. J. O’Brien, who in years gone’by was one of New Zealand's leading contractors. The deceased was about 9<) years of age. lie was at the Thames in the early days, and later he was engaged •!> contracting work in various nartx of the North Island—principally in the Auckland district.

After six years service as leader of the Hastings Orchestral Society, Madame Lilievre has resigned her position, and at the close of. last night’s concert in the Municipal Theatre, occasion was taken by the members to make a presentation to Madame Lelievre. Mr. P. W. Tombs, conductor, in presenting her with a handsome silver afternoon tea service expressed his sincere regret that Madame Lelievre had found it necessary to retire from active participation in the work of the Society, and extended to her the best wishes of the members for her future welfare.