Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 4

Personal.

Mr. Justice Reed left Napier this morning for Nelson and Blenheim. f’iWLpl Air. and Mrs. \\. L. Prime, of Napier, are spending a vacation in Auckland.

A Delhi cable announces the death of the ex-Amcer Sardar Muhammad Ynkubahan, at Dehradun.

Lord Loverhulme has sailed in the Majestic from England on a visit to his undertakings in America and New Zealand, says a London cable.

Mr. R W. AVaterhouse, manager of the Napier branch of the Loan and Mercantile Company, left this morning for Wellington on business.

A Stockholm cable states that the Nobel prize for literature has been awarded to W. B. Yeats, the English novelist, playwright, and poet.

Mr. Alassey, after a strenuous six weeks, is resting for a few days prior to a visit to Birmingham, Yorkshire and Belfast.

A London cable announces the death of the Duke of Cumberland, at the age of 78. He was a cousin to Queen Victoria and son of the late King of Han. over *

The death of Air. William Darby, at Auckland, on Sunday, removes a Wa hi resident of long standing. He went t 6 the goldfields township with his parents about thirty years ago.

Miss G. Gray, of Hastings, who is at present on exchange in. Canada, has been granted six months’ leave of absence to take up a position in England as a teacher.

The wedding of Miss Susnn Duncan, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Duncan, to Mr lan Macßae, of Weraiti, Afasterton, was celebrated at St Paul’s pro-Cafhedral, Wellington, on Wednesday.

The marriage took place at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Auckland., on Wednesday, of Miss Vere Symes, of Parnell, to Mr. R. G. Bennett, late Captain 29th Battalion, A.1.F., son of Colonel and Mrs. A. W. Bennett, of Ballarat, Victoria.

The headquarters staff of the General Post Office assembled on Wednesday to participate in an official farewell and presentation to Air John Laurenson, Chief Inspector of Post Office, who has voluntarily retired from the service on superannuation.

A Christehurch Press Association telegram states that Mr. H. I. Bennett, Superintendent of Telegraphs at Christchurch, is voluntarily retiring at the end of the year on the completion of forty years’ service. Mr. Bennett is a service member of the Board of Appeal.

Deep sympathy will be felt by npyiy people in Hastings and Havelock with Mr, and Mrs. James Holes, of Netherton. Paeroa, late of Havelock North, in the loss of their eldest son (Jimmy), who died on November 10 at Thames Hospital, on his eighteenth birthday. St. Paul’s Church, Oamaru, has given a call to the Rev. Ivo E. Bertram, M.A., of St. Peter’s, Sydney. He is a New Zealander, and took his degree at the Otago University, having been trained at the Theological Hall, Dunedin;

Th© Methodist ministers who have been attending the Synod in Hastings returned to their respective homes by the mail' train this morning, with the exception of the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, who will proceed home on Monday. He will preach at the Methodist Church on Sunday.

A London cable states that the public is much .edneemed about reports of Sir James Barrie’s illness. The “Daily Telegraph’’ is informed that he is not seriously ill, but is recuperating his strength at Sir Douglas Shield’s nursing home, Park Lane, after an attack of exhaustion following overwork.

Air Al. Shathin, who, w4th his wife, escaped from the earthquake disaster at Tokio, informed a “New Zealand Times” reporter that Air Moligne, gen eral supervisor in the Far East for the New Zealand Insurance Company, was spending his vacation with his wife ano child at Kemakoura, and escaped injury and suffered little loss.

Mr T. W. T Tuckey, who went to China in the early 'eighties on behalf of the British company which built the first railway in that country, and remained in the Chinese railway service for 36 years, has arrived in New Zealand. Air Tuckey is an ardent fisherman, and intends to spend the troutfishing season in the Rotorua district.

The Public Service Commissioner has approved of the following appointments in the Government Insurance Department: —Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, Air G. A. Kennedy; accountant. Air H. Rose; chief clerk, Mr G. A. Noble-Campbell; investment clerk Air T. Fouhy; principal correspondence clerk. Air J. G. Reid.

A cable has been received ov ihft National Board of the Y.AV.C.A. in Sydney to the effect that Miss Leila VV. Bridgman, formerly girls’ work secretary in Auckland, has definitely accepted the post of national girls’ work secretary for Australia and New Zealand. Miss Bridgman hopes to return in time to conduct an Easter camp for the girls’ departments in Australia.

Mr. R. S. B. Low. who was formerly a woodwork instructor at the Napier Technical School, died at his home, Kennedy road. Napier South, on AVed? nesday, at the age of 60 years. Air. Low, who had resided in Napier for eleven years, was in business as a shop front builder. He leaves a widow and a son. One of his brothers is Mr. D._ W. Low, headmaster of the College Street School, Palmerston North.