PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

i-: * - Messrs W. T. Jennings, R. Masters, E. Dixon. O. Hawken, and S. G. Smith, M.P.'s, came to Taranaki on Saturday night for the week-end. Mr. O. Hawken, M.P., and Sir Walter Carncross, M.L.C., were passengers for Wellington by the mail train this morning. Mr. W. T. Coad. who has been chief postmaster at Timaru for nearly two years, has received advice of his transfer to the position of chief postmaster at Hamilton. Mr. Coad will leave for the North Island in about a month's time. The Rev. Dr. R. Erwin, who has been minister of the Knox Church, Christchurch, for the past 39 years, has handed in his resignation to the Presbytery, .to take effect as from December 31. iOn Monday night the congregation passed a resolution that Dr. Ejrwin's advancing years made the step necessary. Particulars of the death of Dr. Hugh McCleland, of New Plymouth, on the ' Melbourne-Miklura express, are given in , the Donald (Victoria) Times. A lady i passenger on the train said the conj ductor brought deceased into the carriage iust after the train had left St. .Arnaud. He was breathing heavily. Witness left the carriage for a few minutes, and when she returned - the i passenger was dead. Mrs. McCleland said she and her husband were on a health trip to Mildura, Deceased had a weak heart, and knew it. and had been advised to take a rest and a change. Dr. Calhoun said he had been ' summoned to the railway station, and found deceased sitting up in the com- '■ partment, apparently asleep. Life was extinct, and probably he had been dead 15 minutes. "He was of opinion that death was due to syncope.