PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL

The engagement is announced of Flossie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Parkhili Lascelles Street, Hastings, to Robert, youngest son of Mr. and the late Mrs. J. Tweedie, Raupare, Hastings. The death is announced by cable from London of Sir Westby Brook Percival, formerly Agent-General for New Zealand and Tasmania. Deceased represented Christchurch in Parliament from 1887 to 1891. Miss Amy Evons and Mr Fraser Gange, who arrive in Napier this evening under engagement to the Napier Choral Society, will be the guests of Mr. H. D. Stevenson during their stay in Napier. Cheques totalling £2OO were handed to Senior-Sergeant R. Lanigan at Auckland on Thursday, at a presentation ceremony, to mark his retirement from the police force after 33 years’ service. Mr. E. H Barry apiary instructor in this district, for the Department of Agriculture, left Hastings this morning for Carterton on Departmental business. He will afterwards proceed to Hawera to attend a conference of apiarists. The taxi-drivers of Hastings met Mr. A. C. Fawcett, late Borough Inspector at the Stortford Lodge Hotel on Saturday evening and presented him with a liqueur stand, as a mark of their esteem Mr. Fawcett returned thanks in felicitous terms. After devotions last evening, the choir of the Sacred Heart Church. Hastings, assembled informally for the purpose of presenting a gift to Miss Essie Beamish on the occasion of her approaching marriage. Father McDonald in making the presentation of a salad bowl and servers, voiced the good wishes of the choir to her in the sphere of life on which she was about to enter, and spoke in the highest terms of her work in the choir and of her willingness to help on every occasion Miss Beamish briefly returned thanks. A well-known and highly respected settler of Hawke’s Bay, in the person of Mr. M.J. Joblin, died at his residence “Middleton,” Waipukurau, on Thursday night, aged 73 years. He was born in the Isle of Wight, and came on to New Zealand in 1861, in the ship Mystgry . He was the second son of the late Mr. Geo. R. Joblin, one of the early pioneers of Little River, Banks Peninsula. Die deceased came to the North Island about 40 years ago and took up land at Tarawa in the Gisborne district, when that locality was in virgin bush. He proved a successful sheep-farmer, and after disposing of his Mangatoto property at Tarawa, he went to Waipukurau, where he purchased the , Midaleton estate and had resided there during the last twelve years. His health had been precarious of late, but his sudden passing came as a great shock to his relatives and many friends. He leaves a widow and one daughter, also three sisters —Mesdames George and John Reynolds. and Miss Joblin, of Havelock North The funeral took place on Satu rdav. A service was held at Middleton. after which the interment took place at the Waipukurau cemetery The funeral was representative of the whole district. The Rev Canon E. Rice officiated