PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

) . At the annual meeting of the Pihama, branch of the Farmers' Union, held last Saturday evening, Messrs J. Conagleav and J. S. Tosland were re-elected president and secretary respectively. The title of Sir Arthur Balfour who* has been raised to the peerage will he the Earl of Balfour (says a'London, message) His. second title will be^ \ iscount Traprain of Wliittinghame. The death is announced from.Timaru ot Mr. John Lillie Gillies, manager of the Westport Coal Company and deputy-chairman of the High Schools .Board, m his fifty-seventh year. Miss Oates, sister of Captain Oates, of the Inniskilling Dragoons, the "verygallant gentleman" of Antarctic fame, is visiting New Zealand, and is af present staying in Wanganui. Mrs W. Beale, who died after a verybrief illness at Lower Hutt on April* 26, in her 84th year, came to Wellington from Adelaide in 1867. Mrs Bealewas a staunch Methodist. For the* past twenty years Mrs Beale had resided at Petone and the Hutt. A cable from London says that the King and Queen and their sons, alsoPnncess Beatrice, the Queen of Spain, | and other Royalties, attended Prince Leopold Mountbatten's military funeral m St. George's Chapel, Windsor.- Thebody was laid in the vault in whicK King Edward was buried. A Wellington message states that it is unofficially reported that Mr. Frase'r, of Hawke's Bay, formerly in charge oF the stock department of Nelson Bros.3" Tomoana works, has been appointed general manager of the Meat Pool. Mr. A. N. Field, of the editorial-, staff of the Dominion, and Mr. K. Lucas, editor of the Nelson Mail, whoare on holiday leave, called upon friends at the Star office yesterday. , The visitors were taken up the watertower, from which a_ magnificent viewof the country was obtained. Messrs Field and Lucas expressed themselves; as delighted with Hawer'a, and were sorry that they lad but limited time at £ their disposal. Tfiey left late in the* afternoon for Dawson's Falls.