PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A }\ ashington message states that Mr reinscii, American Minister in China has resigned. ' Mr G. S. Whiteside, who has been county engineer and surveyor to theWaimea County Council for the past eight years, has been appointed engineer to the Wanganui County Council. : The Mayor informed the Borough Council last night that he would be absent for about a week. Cr Osborne was appointed Deputy-Mayor. Another honor has been conferredl on Captain (Brigadier-General) B C ("Tiny") Freyberg, V.C., D.5.0., etc.," ,of Wellington. General Freyberg has been awarded the majority of the honors available for officers. He is now a captain in the Grenadier Guards, but apparently that is his permanent rank, while he has been temporary lieut,colonel and acting brigadier-general. Captain (or General) Freyberg hag now been awarded the French Croix de Guerre, and! has been recommended for further decorations. 4. Hamilton message states that Bishop Cleary has shown a n improvement which is most marked, although grave attacks may recur at any time without warning. His is only the seventh observed case of a rare and j mysterious malady, from which he is the first to recover. He was only lately convalescent from a ten weeks' attack of it in the Mater Hospital, Auckland. The disease ,is marked by great and intensely ipainful onsets," in which t*he limits of human endurance seem to be reached. The heart is always strongly attacked, even though, as in Bishop deary's case, it shows no traces of organic disease. To the medical man the most curious of these various attacks is this: For notable :periods there j is at times no perceptible pulse, heartbeat, or breathing, the body being inert, with the senses and intellect supernormally acute: This latter condition is present throughout the malady. Other symptoms change and vary enormously, and several of them present first-class physiological puzzles. There is no known remedy, but in the recent j attack in Auckland, two drugs, and in Hamilton two others, were found to have a very beneficial effect. ]