PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 6 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Massey and Sir Josenh Ward have safely arrived at Panama, states a cable from the latter place

The death is announced of "a^vellknown figure in the Blenheim river trade Captam Clark/ who diej at Blenheim on December 30,. at the age. of /5 years. fa

Ihe Mayor (Mr E. Dixon) has beenasked several times during the past few months to become a candidate fo r the£atea seat at the next general election, but he nas given, we understand a non-committal reply.

Mr John Heslo Pj of Eltham is laid «p with influenza. Despite his" advanced age, Mr Heslop was an energefaic worker during the recent epiE' and n hls Wenda will hope that he will make a speedy recovery

E«-l« «""-i Sit a widow a-d tW tZTcA^ and the latter returns +« wTr a > probably owes many lives to him V AlfVi? identi*y in the person of Mr +?S S P^ 6* away in the New Plymouth Hospital on Tuesday last Some In connection with the article which ment ol shell shock cases at Seal* Major (or rather Colonel Hui-st) k a SJSSfc/fh bein + g associated .3£ STwV gr^at hosPitals had contributed a great deal to medical litera-

military career. Leading New z£land .some time after the war broke receivpAf Dey€d *° wWhe leceived his commission in the ImDerial Army artillery in Se p tembre7l9lF He jva^ promoted to major in command of battery afterlight months' active ser* vice. He nas been twice wounded twice mentioned in dispatches, and S many f nende be fc^g he is now convalescent in London. The headquarters staff of the New Zealand Farmers' Distributing Campany bn J?£ day telegraphed their congratiilationa repfed .^ Wd^°n- who Snmedia£ly The death of Mr E. W Cole, proprietor of Cole's Book Arcade, was announced a few days ago. E W Dole was the best-known bookseller in. Melbourne, and his Book Arcade had art individuality which expressed the rather peculiar ideas of the proprietor He came out at an early age in a sailer. About half » century*ago he began business in a little shop up on the Bourke Street Hill. Late? on he came down to his present position, and comparatively recently added depart ments^ which brought the Afcade through from Bourke to Collins street f e,. TO a man of considerable religious feeling^ and ran his business, to a certain extent, as a hobby. Hie band was an extraordinary affair, which in the afternoon used to discourse religious music of the "Sweet By-andY'S P^d of all kmd S Cheek by jowl with w^S? ? Tatl?nal^ m would be found aZ^v'Sl^ pl6ty ' suet «• Moody and Sankey's hymns. In the Bourke room ff?i d ? *he, Arcade ~ room full of monkeys.