PERSONALS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 6

PERSONALS.

Mrs A. C. Major, of Masterton, and her sister. Miss Brown, also of Masterton, are at present spending a holiday in Napier and Hastings districts. The death occurred at Die Christchurch Public Hospital last week of Mr. David Henderson Fawcett, who was in charge of the Presbyterian Boys’ Home, PapanuL Captain P. V. Storkey, V.C., an old Napier boy. recently applied for the vacant position of Crown Prosecutor at the Darlington Sessions, Sydney. Mr. McKean was appointed, and the Returned Soldiers’ League has demanded an explanation from the Attor-ney-General, contending that preference ought to have been 1 given to the returned soldier. Since his return to Sydney, Captain Storkey has several times carried out the duties of Crown Prosecutor. The Rev. Father F. A. McEvoy, Ph.D., D.D., oF Hie Diocese of Lismore. New South Wales, underwent a vtry serious operation in Christcliurdh. This was completely successful, and the patient is reported to be making an excellent recovery. Mr. J. J. Curtis, of the Railway Department, New Plymouth, has been appointed secretary and manager of the Westport Harbour Board. While playing soccer at Devonport on Saturday C. Dacne. a wen-known Auckland representative cricketer, fell and fractured his arm. It will consequently be well on in the forthcoming season before Dacre will be able to take his place in the cricket field. Mr. W. L. Dunn (secretary) Mr. Boland (architect) and Mr. W. A. Armour (principal of the Xapier Boys’ High School), left Napier this morning on an official visit to Wellington. They will return on Thursday. A London cable announces the death of Mr. Wilfred Scawen Blunt, at the age of 82. He was a much travelled man and wrote several books on India, Egypt and other places. He stood for Camberwell in 1885, as a Tory Home Ruler, and lor Kidderminster as a Liberal Home Ruler, in 1886. He wap arrested in Ireland for calling a meet ing in a proclaimed area, in October, 1887, and was imprisoned in Galway and Kilmainliam gaols for two months, in 1888. Referring to the late Robert Ransfield, whose death at the age of 80 was recorded on Saturday, says the “Manawatu Times,” it is told that over 50 years ago. two Otaki half castes, Bob Ransfield and Tom Seymour, followed Foley's circus up the coast for a week, went bapk and organised a similar troupe of fralfcastes who made a successful tour. Their horsemanship, gymnastics, and tricks in many respects were superior to those of the professionals from whom they so quickly learned. Bob Ransfield was the “ringer” of his day in West Coast sheds, when machine shearing was not even dreamed of.