PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 1 August 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

~ A,. Sydney message states taat Sh William Lyne is dangerously ill. Sir- Robert Stout, Dr. ' Hay^ and Messrs Blair, Recce, Fenwick,. Jordan and Kayle, members of the Prisons Board, will arrive in New Plymouth to-night. • A London message states that Mr Cyril Asqmth, a son of the PrimeMinister has secured a first-class in, classical Greats at Oxford, thus equalling the father's and his brother's re- ■ cord. . c ? yr iU JF ni 2ht> °f the Waitaki High °xi J 9? ma.ru» has won the Earl of Meath s Empire Challenge Cup for thebest essay upon a set subject dealing wit.li the Empire. Members of Hawera Bowling Club at tne annual meeting on Thursday weregreatry "pleased on receiving a portrait of Mr James Davidson to be placed in the pavilion with those of other presidents. Mr Davidson was one of thefounders of the Club, and has always, taken a great interest in its welfare. A letter is to be sent thanking him for his gift. The death is announced of Mr James. HazJitt, aged 84, well known in commercial circles in connection with the old-established firm of Mackerras an(f. Hazlett. Deceased was born in 1829, at Maghara, Londonderry, Iz-eland. For •a number of years he was president of the Dunedin Hospital. He was also a trustee of the Benevolent Institution; and a member of the Charitablq. Aid Board. He was w«ll known in. connection with racing, and-,in partner- [ ship with Mr Stephenson, owned sev pral well-known horses, including Oc cident, who won the Exhibition Cu£. in 1889 and the Dunedin Cup in 1892, Tempest, who won the Dunedin Cupin 1893, Gipsy Grand, who won theDunedin Cup in 1896; Hippomenes,. Outpost, etc. He married in 1867 a daughter of Mr Thos. Coleman, and his family consists, of five sons and/ three daughters.