Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 18, 5 January 1920, Page 6

Personal.

Mr. W. Lints left Napier this ( morning for Palmerston North. | Miss Holdsworth and Mis? Irene Chambers are visiting Mt. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Marris (Waipukurau) are visiting Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bayliss (Hastings) are visiting Christchurch, says the “Press.” | Major Alexander M'Nab, N.Z.R.8., received his D. 5.0., says a London correspondent. I Mr. and Mrs. Holdsworth and ‘Miss Holdsworth leave in April on a I visit to England. I Mrs. Leahy (Napier) is. staying [with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hay!ward, Lower Hutt. I Mr. Justice Hosking left M elling- • ton bv the Manuka on New Year’s Eve for a holiday trip tp Sydney. Colonel Hugh Stewart, who, before the war, was Professor of Classics at Canterbury College, and who, enlisting as a private, had a [remarkably successful military career, returned to New Zealand by the Ruahine. Sir James and Lady Carroll, who were present at the Hastings races, [are staying at the Grand Hotel, and will remain in town until Wednes- | day next. Sir James was present at I the Uren-Clabby fight on New Year s night. Al large number of .'n?n Is rind sympathisers attended the tone’ll cf Mrs. Lynn _>n Satur my, v ben rhe remains weri laid >o rest in lw Hastings cemetery. Jhe Rev. Father Friher condu te I ’h? service at the graves’.oe. Mr. A. Camcross, of the literary staff of the “New Plymouth Herald,'' who has been on a visit to Hastings, left this morning on his return to the West Coast. Mrs. Camcross remains in Hastings lor a further couple of weeks, on a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Guest. Inspector Marsack, who is •’« charge of the Hawke’s Bay Police District, leaves Napier to-morrow for Gisborne in connection with the recent rearrangement or the staff. Gisbomeis in the rather awkward position of having a new sub-inspec-tor and a new senior sergeant, and it will be a short time before the court is in proper working order at that centre. Sergeant Michael Murphy, one of the best-known members of the Wellmgton Police Force, who has been laid aside by illness for some time past, has retired on pension. In the earlier days of Wellington, Sergeant (then Constable) Murphy was a distinct personality on tne waterfront, arid won deservedly ■» reputation fir fearlessness, endurance, and all-round ability that is enjoyed by very few men whose calling" brings them so intimately in itoui-Ii with the publicLieut .-Commander F. A. -Morsley, D. 5.0.. RD., R.N.R. kNeUon) has received a Bar to the D.S.U. for his services in Russia. Lieut.-Commander tVorsley was master of the Endurance in the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition and he previously was officer and was I ter of several of <he New Zealand GoI vernment steamers. In November 1917. he received the D-S.O- for ser vices in action. On that occasion h« met a U-boat at close quarters, steam ed for it, and dropped an explosivt charge as the craft was submerging. In recognition of senrices during th< war the King has conferred the C.B.E j.Military Division) on Brigadier-Gener al H. O. Knox, C-M.G.,. C.1.E.,. fo: valuable services in the Civil Engineer in-Chiet’s Department of the Admiral Ity, and upon Engineer-Captain R. W Skelton, D.S.O-, R.N-, for valuable ser vices in the Archangel area of th, White Sea. Engineer-Captain Skeltoi was a member of Captain Scott’s firs Antarctic Expedition, and be marriei Miss Devenish Meares, of Christchurch He was mentioned in Lord Jellicoe’ , despatch after the Battler of Jutland where he gained the D.S.O, Mr. R. J. Barrett, a return© soldier, who has been temporaril discharging the duties' of. bailiff a the Hastings Magistrate’s Com during the past three months, ha been permanently attached to th department and has been tran: ferred to Taumarunui, wh'ere h entered on his duties to-day. Dunn his connection with the Hasting Court staff. Mr. Barrett proved bin self conscientious in the discharge < his oilice as well as a capable, cou teous and tactful officer in his dea ings with the-public. ' *■ •