PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 70, 6 March 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mrs. E. R. Salon (nee Miss Daisy Truman) has returned to Hastings for'a short holiday. Lord Baden Powell is sailing for Australia on January 16th, 1931, states a London cable.

Sir George Elliot, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, returned to Wellington by the Ulimaroa on Tuesday from a business trip to Australia. Mr and Mrs Frank Pipe, of Hasings, left by this morning’s mail train en route for England on a holiday trip.

Princess Rahui te Kiri has died at Leigh, Auckland, ih her 100th year. She was the only daughter of the great chief, Te Kiri, who once owned all the land along the coast from Takapuna to Mangaio, a distance of 60 rhiles.—Press Assn.

Mrs F. C. Fryer and her daughter, Miss M. Williams, left Hastings this morning by train for Wellington en route lor England on a holiday tour. They expect to be b,ack in New Zealand again by December. Mr F. C. Fryer accompanied them as far as Wellington.

The friends of Miss Violet Thomson, now of Pretoria street, Lower Hutt, will be pleased to hear that, although her name was inadvertently omitted from thb list published last week, she has since received specially cabled information that she has passed the M.A. degree examination with ■first-class honours in French and Latin.

A change in the staff at the Hastings Police Force is announced. Constable Heslop, a very able member of the Force, has been transferred to Granity (near Westport) where he will take charge. For nine years Constable Heslop was in Napier and in December, 1927, he was transferred to Hastings. His departure will be felt by many with feelings of regret. Mrs 8. J. Elwin, of vYairoa, widow of the late Mr W. Jekin Elwin died at her residence on Sunday, aged 85. In earlier days her husband was a school teacher and postmaster at Petane, and his wife assisted him in the latter department. She was residing at Petane when tho Maori trouble was acute, and her husband was engaged with Fraser’s forces frum Wairoa on the morning of October 12, 1866. Rangihiroa, the leader of a considerable rebel force, was on his way to reinforce the enemy at Omar"nui, but he was killed, and his forcQ prevented from joining up. Mr Elwin predeceased his wife by 10 years. Hr C. Elwin, of Hastings, is a son of the late lady.

Information has been received in Auckland of the death at Chcam, Surrey, at tho great age of 97 years, of the Rev. Father Adalbert O’Sullivan, one of the founders of the Benedictine Order in New Zealand. Father O'Sullivan was associated with Bt. Benedict’s Church, Auckland, in the early days. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the Bene dictino Order. Father O’Sullivan was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, and was ordained in 1858. He camo to New Zealand in 1880 with the party of Benedictines who founded a branch of that Order here. Father O’Sul'ivan returned to England in 1901, subsequently spent some years .in Italy, and later on still, with some E’ ,-lish monks, he formed the community of St. Augustine at Ramsgate..