Personals.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 4

Personals.

Mr T. M. Lawlor left Hastings this morning on a visit to Marton. A London cable states that the visit of the King of Servia to London is a strictly private one. A telegram from Auckland announces the death at the age of 97 years of William Cook, a grand-nephew of Captain Cook, the great navigator.

Miss Hodge left Hastings by the mail train this morning to attend the conference of headmistresses (secondary schools) in Wellington. Colonel T. W. McDonald, who arrived in Wellington from Dun Odin last week, is announced as an independent candidate for Wellington East. A Washington cable says a physician’s bulletin declares that Mrs Harding’s condition has slightly improved, but is still critieal.

Mr W. Hart (Mayor of Hastings) and Mr A. A. George, representing the Hastings Athletic and Cycling Club, are attending a meeting of Athletic and Cycling Clubs at Waipukurau to-day. x The friends of Mr J. H. Grigg, of Ellison road, Hastings, will regret to hear that he is suffering from a cataract on the eye. He entered Lyndhurst Hospital to-day for its removal.

Mr. Allan Wilkie and his Shakespearean Players, including Miss Hilda Dorrington, left Sydney on Saturday and will commence their New Zealand tour at Christchurch on Saturday evening next, opening with “King John.’

Mr. Edwin William Hardy, who was associated with Mr. Gabriel Read in the discovery of gold in Otago, is one of the few survivors of the very early days in the Otago provincial district. It was more than 60 years ago when he landed in Otago from England.

His Lordship Bishop M. J. Brodie, Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, who has visiting Europe, will arrive iji Auckland on October 16th. He will be present at the opening of a new convent at Grey Lynn on October 22nd.

Mr. L. F. Ledger, accountant in the Christchurch office of the Union Steam Ship Company for several years, retired on Saturday on superannuation with 40 years’ service. Tne manager, Mr. W. H. Price, on behalf of the local staff, presented him with a solid silver playing-card cabinet.

The Rev. J. J. North, of Christchurch, and formerly of Wellington, is to leave Christchurch on October 25th, en route to India, where he will stay about three months. ,He will reach Europe about next April, and in July will visit Sweden. Probably Mr. North will return via the United States of America. He expects to be back in New Zealand about the beginning of October, 1923. The late Mr Henry Lawson left few effects, but under his will his walking stick goes to a friend, afterwards to be willed to the Mitchell library, which ateo gets the last pencil the poet used (says a Sydney Press cable.) Mr Mutch, ex-Minister for Education, receives his pen, other friends, respectively, his match-box, pipe, a pair of spectacles, a collar and plugs of tobacco.

A London correspondent,-under date July 27th, writes: “Mrs Selwyn Chambers (Havelock North) has been staying in Oxford, accompanied by the Misses Ritchie (Havelock North). Next month the party an. going to Switzerland. and on their return Mrs Chambers will .go first to Scotland and then to Oberammergau, in time to see the last performance of the. Passion Play on September 24th. She may leave for New’ Zealand about the end of the year, but her plans are inde. finite.

Mr. Alexander Crabb, veterinary officer and head of the Trade and Produce Department of the High Commissioner’s Office, is leaving London for New Zealand by the Tainui, on September 21st, and expects to be m the dominion by* October 29th. It is a good many years since Mr Crabb was in New Zealand, and the object of hix visit is to bring himself more up-to-date in regard to conditions as affecting the work of the Trade and Produce Department in London.