Personals.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 234, 15 September 1922, Page 4

Personals.

The Rev. B. R. Brierly has been appointed assistant curate at St Augustine’s Church, Napier. Mr. T. E. Corkill, chief inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, who has been on a visit to Fiji, returned Mr. Percy Tombs, who is visiting his mother at Palmerston, gave an or. gan recital at St. Peter’* Church, Terrace End, last night. Mr. R. J. Goughian, officer in charge of the telephone exchange, Wellington. has been tranferred’ to Auckland. The death of Mr. Charles Clarke at Epsom, aged 84 years, re moves one of the rapidly thinning remnant of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment which served during the Maori war. Mr. Ernest V. Hall, a'member of the editorial staff of the “Evening Post,” has accepted a responsible position on the staff of the Sydney “Daily Telegraph.” Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe will pay a brief visit to Australia shortly, leaving Auckland by the Moeraki on the 21st inst., and returning to New Zealand about the middle of October. Mr. Murdoch Fraser a member of the V.D. committee, is still in a private nursing home at Wanganui, ind was unable to attend the resumed sitting of the committee yesterday. Dr. Wylie, who recentlv resigned from the of Health, left by the Maunganui for the United States, and will return to New Zealand in a few months. The Rev. Father Hickson, of Meanee, Hawke’s Jlay, arrived at Auckland by the steamer from Sydney, after a four months’ tour of the Australian States. / Mrs Stewart, who lias been visiting her daughter, Mrs H. Gilmore-Smith, Lovedalc road, Hastings, left on her return home to Wellington this morning. Married in the Baptist Chapel, Wellesley Street, 58 years ago by the Rev. H. P. Carnford, Mr. and Mrs Ambrose Coad, of Mt. Eden, lived together happily and died within a fortnight of each other. The husband was 86 years of age and the wife 84. A medical congress is to be held in Sydney, and Dr. Truby King, C.M.G., Director of Child Welfare, will represent New Zealand. It is the intention of Dr. King to visit the various centres of work among children in Sydney. The marriage took place privately on Tuesday at Auckland of Miss Bertha Young, second daughter of the late Mr. R. 0. Young and Mrs Young, of Auckland, to Surgeon-Lieutenant Commander O’Riorden, R.N., of H.M.S. Veronica. Mr. R. R. Macgregor, Pfr.D.. of Hamilton, has been appointed to a professorship in philosophy "at Notre Dame University. Indiana, U.S.A. Mr. T. M. Wilford, reader of the Opposition, who underwent an operation recently, is making good progress toward recovery, and it is ..oped that he will be able to resume his seat in the House of Representatives next week. . . 4-, The wedding of Miss Gulielma Constance Sargood, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs F. R. Sargood, of Dunedin, to Mf*. Leslie P. Mills, Ist Bedfordshires, only son of Lieut.-Colonel G. P. Mills, D. 5.0., and Mrs Mills, of Nuttfield, Cuxlcy Greet’, took place in the Chapel Royal, Savoy, on August 2nd (writes a London correspondent). Captain Peter Hayward Fletcher, who up till recently was a master in the service of the Union Steamship Conwany, died on Wednesday at his resilience at Bond street, Stanley' Bay, in lis forty-third year. Captain Fletcher joined the service ot tho Union Company in 1900, and, after serving lor some time as officer, was eventu allv appointed to the rank of 00,11 • mandant and successively commanded the Talune, Navua and Waikouaiti. Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Ixiach. who is well-known in Canterbury, and in New Zealand military life generally, has been selected and will stand as the Reform party’s candidate for the Avon seat at the general election. He was born in England, and at an early age he went to Australia. Loon Ins arrival in New Zealand about -8 years ago, he entered .into business and also became interested in the volunteer movement. He served in the Boer war, and he left Now Zealand for the Great War with the Main Body, holding the rank of major. When in Gallipoli he was promoted to Colonel and made officer commanding the Canteibury Regiment. He was severely wounded in the leg while serving on the Peninsula and «as >n'al.ded to England and subsequently to New Zealand. While convalescing he held several military presiding at courts-martial and takln f ft" niont drafts to the m P s . ‘7l' Colonel Loach is the preident of the Aranui Burgesses’ A ? s 2 c ! atl ? n P „™mit member of the Aranui School Committee. During previous elections he has always taken a keen interest m the political campaigns and has been an active worker on candidates n 0 ™” 1 "- tees. He is a brother of Mr. 1. K. Loach, of Loach and Price. Hastings.