PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 January 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

j , ! The many friends of Mr James Grant, will be sorry to learn that he is seri- , ously ill at his home at Taiporohenui. j The death of Mr John Barton, the first white child born in the Hutt Valley, is reported from Wellington. He was born on October 8, 1850. Mr G. Maddison has been elected Mayor of Hastings, consequent upon the retirement of Mr Hart through illhealth. b The Rev. H. E. K. Fry, vicar of Biehester, Hampshire, has been appointed vicar of St. Mark's, Wellington, in succession to the Eev. C. F. Askew, who removes to Nelson and becomes a dean.—Press Assn. j Professor Easterfield, director of the ; Cawthron Institute, was thrown from his horse while holiday-making at Whangamoa. His injuries*are not serious, but will necessitate his spending ( severaLdays in bed.—Press Assn. • The Eltham Argus learns from the Mount View Hospital that Mrs N , Kelhher, who was badly injured in the* | motor accident at Jerseydale on Mon- * day, is progressing very satisfactorily. Those who suffered lesser injuries have ; been discharged. I Adjutant Dunn, the officer in charge of the Salvation Army Boys' Home tt l^tham, has received notice of his transfer to a new appointment not yet announced. J ! The death of Mr Arthur Diosy, i-K.Gr.S., a distinguished writer and lXu cX 18 # lm°UUCed iv a J'h Tl l. e Far E' lst occupied much of Ins attention, and for many years he advocated the Anglo- Japa^imance He was an official lecturer to the troops during the European War. Adjutant and Mrs Doran, of the SalKSSwoorv^ 6 been appoinie(i t0 tafi F i* XV successo^ are CapMahaffie *h ft^ ckson and LientenaAt luaname. Both are young men. The former was a Palmerston North boy and for some time has been in chaiJe of the young people's work at WellhS at Dunedin. Both officers are musS tiv^i^'M 7KV °°lcott ' cMief representative m Melbourne of the literary department of the Sydney Daily Teegraph ia in Auckland 7 renewing . ?eSf aDMr WGI ?? abSeUCe 0f 26 years. Mr Woolcott was a member brief ebu^° f The, Bel1 ' which a Drier but chequered career as a daily evening paper in Auckland. He was afterwards on the Wellington Post be ago' SJt edV n * t0 AuStralia «lei leave «£ „\ at presfnt on three months' leave of absence from his paper, following on a breakdown in health As a boy in 1885 Mr WoolcottTa , learnin the TaranaS H« a ?d r>-K")4. 1W old friends of Mr and Mrs Stertt^r -Will n° doubt leS^ interest of their recent return to New Count Urv afW^ le,lgthy Vißit t0 the OW best of ™J% T U, a ,great deal of the Island XX E, nglan.d.a^ the Channel islands and also visited most places teresf J TW° f Mstoric and «ede?n \ntainp/f o r/ oungest having obtained a good position on a London EnXT* Xl decided t0 renmi i Mr! wV° r the time bein«- Mr and rSU^FifhT SettUng in Auck] and \*a7? an Eltbam correspondent).