Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 234, 10 September 1924, Page 4

Personal.

Their Excellencies Lord aud Lady Jellicoe leave Wellington to-duy on fuiewell visits to Wanganui and New Plymouth. They ( have accepted an invitation to attend the Wanganui snd on Friday His Excellency will open the new woollen mills at Aramoho. Their Excellencies have arranged to arrive al New Plymouth on Monday next and to Ireturn to Wellington on September 18th. Whilst at New Plymouth His Excellency will unveil la war memorial ccntotaph an<) present his shooting trophy tu the New Plymouth High bchool. The Governor-General and Viscountess Jellicoe and their family expect to leave the Dominion for England by the Tahiti, sailing from Wellington on or about November 25. They propose to sail from Melbourne by the Mongolia on December 23.

Mr T. M. Chambers left Hasting? this morning for Wellington on business. (

Mr W. J. Warren, stationmaster at Hastings, who is /on vacation, left this morning for Wellington and Whangarct for a trip. He will resume duty at Hastings in ten days.

Mr Charles Macintosh Ross, head of the firm of C. Ross and Co., one of the leading drapery establishments in Palinorston North, died on Monday, after over 40 years’ residenve in Palmerston North.

Mr 8. T. Hunt, an old resident of Palmerston North, and a Maori War veteran, passed away at the age of 74 years. Ho arrived in New Zealand with his parents, who came out in the ship Alma in 1857. •

Mr R. P »yntcr, president of the H.B. Fruitgrowers ’ Asociation, and Mr W. H. Rice, orchard ictructor, left Hastings this morning for Wellington, where they will give evidence before the Pastoral Parliamentary Committee on “The Fruit Control Bill.

Mr. W. Bishop, who has been seriously ill in the Napier Hospital, passed a very bad night, but at seven o’clock this morning his condition had slightly improved. A message received at midday stated that Mr. Bishop had shown signs of further improvement.

A London cable states that the Rev. Frederick Molyneaux has been appointed assistant Bishop of Melanesia. Mr Molyneaux served in Mesopotamia as a chaplain and was mentioned in despatches. He will sail for New Zealand in June, accompanied by a band of recruits for missionary work.

A cable received at Christchurch states that Mr. D. D. Copland, formerly graduate of Canterbury College, has been appointed to the Chair oi Commerce and Economics at Melbourne University, the most important position of its kind south of the line.—Press Association.

The funeral of Miss Muriel McKee took place this afternoon, when a large gathering of representative citizens, including the Mayor and members of the Borough Council, followed in the procession, iron; the Presbyterian Church, to the Hastings cemetery, where Rev. P. Ramsay conducted the final rites. After the interment, many beautiful wreaths were laid on the grave.

Mrs Shaw, aged 2.7, wife of H. S. Shaw, and the mother of four young children, died suddenly when about her duties at Timaru on Monday morning. Her husband found her on the floor dead on his return home to dinner at noon. At the inquest the verdict was that the cause of death was heart disease. The deceased was of a particularly cheerful disposition and had never had an illness. —(Press Assotion).

The following are guests at the Masonic Hotel: Messrs W. E. Ward (New York), W. A. Lang, E. Sime, J. R. Chapman, H. N. Mann, W. Grace. Mrs D. Abraham, Mrs Solomon (Wellington), Messrs P. H. Summerfield (Wairoa), M, Blandford, H. Sinclair (Palmerston North), H. C. Williams, P. Edward, B. Cooper, Dr. and Mrs Ewart Brown (Gisborne), Mrs Maun, sell, Mrs Garwith (Masterton), and Mr O. Brandon (Rotorua). Letters have been received in Auckland by Mrs John Cook from Dr Alary Harris Armor, of America, who toured New Zealand in the interests of prohibition, stating that Mrs Don<, president'.of the W.C.T.U. for New Zealand, and Miss Henderson were staying with her at her home at Eastman, in Georgia Dr ‘Armor also states that Mrs Don has made a great impression in America, and is considered the best speaker within /the world’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which is great praise in a country where so many women are/fine platform orators.

News by cable has been received in Hasting? flow Melbourne announcing tho death at the age '.of 82. Miss Elizabeth T. Bogle, an esteemed an t well-known resident of Hasting over thirty years ago. Deceased lauy used tv conduct a young ladies’ school in the large two-story building standing in its own grounds off Heretaunga street, half way to Stortford Lodge, «ind, at her death, she still held an interest in the property. bhe has a brother living at Havelock North, and sho has many mainr friend* iy Hastings and district who will learn of her death with sin l cere regret.