Personal

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 21 August 1926, Page 4

Personal

Harry Collins, welter and middleweight champion boxer of Australia, announces that he has retired from the ring owing to eye troubles.

The British Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, is departing at the week-end tor Aix-les-Bains for three weeks, says a London cable.

Captain Riseley, of the Salvation Army, Hastings, who has been assisting Commandant Calcott for the last seven months, has recerved word to farewell and proceed to Aromoho, Wanganui.

The many friends of Mr. A, L. Ryan, chief reporter on the “Tribune’’ staff, will be pleased to learn that he has so far recovered from his serious illness as to be able to walk into town. He is hopeful of resuming duty some time next week.

Mr. Justice Ostler, who has been presiding over the Supreme Court sessions at Napier leaves by car tomorrow morning for Gisborne. He expects to resume the Napier session on Monday week. In the departure of Mr. D. Thorburn, who has been Waipukurau agent for Messrs Williams and Kettle for several years, for Hastings, on transfer, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at Waipukurau has lost a valuable member of the committee of managers. He had served for several terms as a manager. Sir Roderick Jones, chairman of Reuters, who for the past two months has been visiting Australia, left Sydney in the Ulimaron lor New Zealand. Huring his stay there he closely discussed cable ano wireless news matters with the heads of the press. Important results are expected as the outcome of the consultations. He leaves Auckland for Vancouver on August 31.

Among the guests at the Masonic Hotel, Napier, are:—Mrs E. Sanford, Mrs 1. Brown (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs J. L. Blundell (Waipawa), Mr. and Mrs P. F. Wail (Hatuma), Mr. and Mrs P. M. McGeehan, Mrs McGregor, Messrs W. Bull, G. M Dodgshun, C. Elliott, M. Goddum, R. Burke, 0. W. Muir (Gisborne), H. Saunders (Petone), A. W. Watkins, A. Berdikin (Dannevirke), J. Macintosh (Invercargill), A. Ross (Foxton), A. Woodhead (London), H. Speedy (Takapau), S. H. Haldyard (Arapawanui), J. Corsie, C Tuck, W. Dawe (Auckland, R. Campbell, D. Morris, 0. Grieg, C. Bull.