PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 25 July 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The appointment of Mr T. E. Maunsell to be S.M. at Westport is gazetted.—Press Assn. A London cable states that King George has accepted President Wilson's invitation to the Prince of Wales to spend a few days at Washington and New York after his Canadian visit. Lieut.-Colonel J. Mitchell has been appointed organiser for the Returned boilers' Association for the Wellington provincial district, which includes JMarlborough and Nelson. The death is reported by cable of Sir Edward H. Holden, chairman of ■ the London City and Midland Bank ' He was born in 1848, and was a mem--19061""" °f C~ns f™» : l>,Mr *k F v HaU». Hi"c street, New \ Plymouth, has received advice that his i son Trooper P. C. Hall, i s r^-ning by the TJ.uhmaroa, due at Auckland ' about August 6. The Rev. J. R ee d Glasson, of Wei- I lington, was injured last week by being knocked down by a motor car in the city, but expects to be about again soon. uo • Apfeaeant-little, function took place in the Islington Tea Rooms yesterday afternoon when the members of the • Sr We Aa Sloqu^ Club met to farewell S S A- ?°T, ell > a P°Pular member, M E Sh?, rtly rem°ving to Hamilton Mrs Powell was presented with a bouquet of violets, and a book, "Art in Fxowers ,'' as a mark of esteem in , Si 1S regarded by the memAt Island Bay, Wellington, on Wedl ! nesday evening, a farewell social was tendered to Rev. J. G. Castle who has presided A purse of sovereigns was presented to Mr Castle on behalf of the parishioners. Mr C. Proctor and rfiw p «arda? eulogised the work of Mr Castle, and expressed sorrow at his transfer The Island Bay bowlers presented the Rev. Mr Castle with"a case of pipes. An old colonist and veteran of the Maori war Major Andrew Burns, died kW a^S. B*SSSSZ£: ■i&ViBo. z-hlia *tte ** At the very advanced age of 93 years, Mrs Skinner passed peacefully away yesterday making another gap m the roll of the pioneer settlers of New Plymouth. The deceased lady was the youngest, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Veale, who arrived here by the Amelia Thompson on September 3, 1841, with their famihT coming from Houlsworthy, in Devon! bhe was then about 16 years of age i and was married five years later to ?^i T. ho?l as Kmgwell Skinner, who diedi* n 1874 The two surviving sons are Messrs T K. and W. H. Skinner, i to both of whom the sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended.—News. In an obituary notice of the late Mr Laurent the Taranaki Herald says: The old gentleman came of. a well-known family of Picardy, with which the Duke •j x J» father of Queen Victoria, is said to have contracted an alliance The Duke as stated to havQ legally, married Madame de St. Laurent, Baroness de Jortison, a French-Canadian lady. The validity of the marriage was rot recognised by the laws of England when he married Princess Victoria" Mary Louisa ot Saxe-Coburg,. who became the mother of Queen Victoria. The Duke was said to have left a son by his morganatic wite, and this son was known in later years as Brigadier-General Green Mr i Laurent of Hawera, came of the family I to which Madam de Laurent Baroness de Fortison, belongedThe New Zealand Shipping Company' have received advice that a posthumoas award of the Victoria Cioss has been made to Captain Archibald B. Smith tor most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty wh*?n in command of the s.s. Otaki during its fight against the Moewe on March 10th, 1917. Chief Utticer McNeash has also been awarded w R.' BmO V T and tnQ > two gunners, Worth and Jackson, the D.S.M. In this connection the directors of ths New Zealand Shipping Company have been very impressed by the reports from | survivors of the gallant action of the j gunner, Reading Seaman Worth, and they have irade him a presentation of a tanjjard. on which appears a suitable inscription. The armament of the two | vessels va&:—S.S- Otaki: Defensive armament, 4.7 gun, A. E. Worth lead™Sf*Se£7iaS' vP* Jacks<>n > gunner's c; r,WTVE^ Marfcm ' apprentice (killed); B. X Kilner, apprentice (killed). Moewe: Two 7.5 guns, two 6in. guns, six 3m guns, four torpedo tubes. Also that the Secretary of the Admiralty wrote to the owners as follows:—"The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty if the Otaki had had a little more luck she would have sunk the raider against ( overwhelming odds''