PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 July 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

I +—.; ~ Mf- ?vT e11 * 5" *>f the Department ot Internal Affairs, New Zealand died in Jersey of bloqid poisoning (says a London cable). A London cable says the .King gave | a twenty minutes' auuience to Mr. and I Mrs. Sanders. o£ Auckland, parents of I tuo late Commander banders who won the V.C. " j A London message reports the deaths of Mr. 'J.\ H. iloward, formerly fcialva- , tion Army Commissioner in Australia; ; Dr. HaJLUnan, Roman catholic Bishop | of Limerick; and Air. Arthur Wiiley, Mr,; J. Caughley, Director of Education,, is shortly to visit Fiji and Samoa, in order to make arrangements for the future supervision and inspection of schools in those islands. A Christchurch message reports the •<feath, aged 25, of Miss Jane Roberts, ©ne of the founders of the prohibition movement in Canterbury. She was a ; fluent platform speaker, and was associated with the late BJev. Frank Isitt and Mr. T. _. Taylor. She was a capable organiser, closely associated with the W.C.T.U. There was a large and representative i gathering at St. Paul's pro-cathedral' at Wellington yesterday for the wedding of Miss Mary Stuart Seddon, j daughter of "the late Right Hon. R. J. j Seddon and Mrs. Seddon, of Welling- I ton, to Dr. Frank Hay, InspectorGeneral of Mental Hospitals. The ceremony 'was performed by Canon Bean, of Christ-church, brother-in-law of the bride, assisted by the Yen. Arch, deacon Johnson, vicar of St. Paul's. T_ Tirirlo 1,-at. rr^r/iv. „„,„„ V„ 1 -™ «_i_Vy I,«*U j^MOL Cl.>VCty UJ lit!! brother.^ i\lr. T. E. Seddon, and Mrs. F. H. Ward, sister of the bride, attended as matron of h6npur. The health of the newly-married couple was'proposed by Sir Joseph Ward, who also proposed the health of the bride's mother, Mr. T Seddon responding.—Press Assn. Mr. Andrew Riby Bloxam, who died at'Christchurch, aged 84 years, was an early settler in Canterbury, and was one of the few University men surviving who came out to New Zealand in the early days of the colony. Mr. Bloxam was appointed Deputy. Registrar at the Supreme Court at Christchurch in 1879, and three years later became Registrar and Sheriff.' This position he held until his retirement from the Public Service in 1907, at which time he reached the age limit. It was as a cricketer that Mr. Bloxam was especially well v known. He did not cease playing until two years ago, "at the age of 82, surely a record in'cricketing annals. Mr. Henry Bloxam, accountant in the Bank of New Zealand at New Plymouth, is a son of the late Mr. Bloxam. Mr. C. J. McCarthy, a well-known Wanganui hotel-keeper, having retired from business, was made the recipient of a presentation last week. Mr. Hope Gibbons said that Mr. McCarthy had been connected with the trade in Wanganui for 30 years. For 19 years he had been secretary of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, and had been instrumental in bringing about many reforms. He had conducted his hotel on such good lines that it was a model to others engaged in 3 similar capacity, and many of the younger members of the trade looked up to him as a'father, and had benefited by his sound advice, which was freely given. He then presented Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy with a very valuable silver tea service and a silver flask for his own personal use. A number of other speakers endorsed the remarks of Mr. Gibbons, and the health of Mr. and Mrs.-McCarthy was enthusiastically honoured. Mr. McCarthy feelingly replied, and returned his sincere thanks for the kind references to himself and Mrs. McCarthy, and also for,the tokens of esteem. A link with the past history of India is broken by the death in Sydney of Mr. M. A. Cohen. He was at one time headmaster at the S;ssoon.schools in Bombay. Whilst there he graduated as B.A. at'the* University of Bombay, and afterwards accompanied Lord Roberts as interpreter through the third Afghan war. In 1887 he came ont to Australia, and was headmaster of the Hebrew and religious classes of the local Jewish community, a position he held until the illness which terminated with his death. Deceased was at one time editor of the Australian Hebrew, and w?s well known as a lecturer in Hebrew at several of the theological colleges in New South Wales. /