Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 141, 29 May 1920, Page 5

Personal.

General Birdwood is expected in Napier about June 28th.

rieiior-Detective Kemp, of Dunedin, has left for Australia in connection with the visit of the Prince of Wales.

Miss K. Ellis, of Hastings, returned from Gisborne on the Araliura this morning.

Messrs. J. Morling and J. R. Morgan, of Napier, returned last evening from Rotorua and Taupo. Mr. H. E. Andrews, of Andrews and Steele, dentists, Hastings, has returned from his holiday. Mr. J. N. Lowry, or Okawa station, ■' Hawke’s -Bay, is at Jesus College, Cambridge, snvs a London exchange. '

The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Mrs. and Miss. MacDonald passed through Napier this evening on their way’ to Gisborne.

Mr. 1). R. Fisher, having returned from America, visited Hastings accompanied by his wife, and.left yesterday for their home in Christchurch.

The Hon. W. D. 8. and Mrs. MacDonald received news by cable that their second daughter Ella was married at Singapore to Mr. H. A. Davison. Mr. W. J. McGrath, of Napier, is at present- in Wellington. He attended the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union last night-

The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister for Education), who has been on a tour of inspection of the Taranaki district during the past week, was due hack in Wellington yesterday. Mr. E. E. Rivers left Hastings this morning for Wellington, to attend tho annual conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. The sudden death has occurred at Dunedin of Mr. George Thomas Catto who for many years was well-known in Dunedin as a sergeant-major of the permanent staff. Mr. Andrew Hamilton, who has died at Dunedin, was a well-known sharebroker. He was born at Kilmarnock, arid was about eighty-three years of age.

An old identity of the Takapau district, Tonguru, a native chief, passe.l away during the week. The deceased was highly respected in the district. He was a man of absolute uprightness and at all times shewed he was One of nature’s gentlemen.

Mr. Finch, engineer to the Napier Harbour Board, passed through Wellington on Thursday on his way to Lyttelton where he is to inspect the Fruling dredge there yith a view to its purchase and use in connection with the Napier harbour construction work.-t. The name of Captain T. E. Y. Seddon, 13th. New Zealand Regiment, has been brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for valuable services rendered in the United States of America in connection with the war.

An old man-of-warsman, Mr. E. F. Weuo, who recently died at Bulls, aged 86 years, served in the China war at the taking of the Taku Forts, ana took part in the march to Pekin. He was also with the Navy during the war with Russia. In later life he came to New Zealand and settled in the Rangitikei district. Deceased wa s _a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and the Oddfellows’ Order. He is survived by one daughter and four sous.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forde, of Havelock North, are expecting by the Arawa, due next month, their son Captain F. L. Forde. He was working in the Westinghouse Company’s works in Manchester when war broke out ana joined the Dorset Regiment in August, 1914, and was drafted with the 3rd. Battalion of that regiment after training. In Mesopotamia he saw three years’ service. He was then in India and was with Gerferal Allenby s , advance to Damascus and afterwards with the army of occupation ip Palestine.

Manawatu loses one of its most picturesque and loyal native chiefs with the death of Hare Rakena Te Awe Awe, head of the Rangitane Tribe, of the Rangiotu district. The deceased, who died on Monday after a faurmonths’ illness, was a fine type of Maori, prominent with his tribe, m fighting for the Government against the unruly rebels of the early days, when he was awarded the New Zealand war medal for his services. Deceased. who was a widower, was a son of Wiremu Kingi, chief of the Rangitanes, and will be succeeded in the chieftainship by his well-known son, Manawaroa Te Awe Awe.