PERSONAL NOTES.

Inangahua Times, 9 December 1929, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr George Horne, Christchurch, is at present on a visit to Reefton. Miss J. Williams, who has been residing at Glentunnel. Canterbury, returned home last week-end. Mr Patrick J. Hurley, of Oklahoma, has been selected as United States Secretary of War. P. L. Minn (Auckland), and J. C. Kakin (Otago), have been chosen as the 1929 Rhodes scholars. I Private advice was received in Wellington to-lay of the death in England of Sir John Findlay.—'Wellington Press wire. Biehop Cleary's condition this afternoon, was very critical. His temperature is 105. He has been unconscious since 5 a.m. on Friday.—Auckland Press wire. It is announced that J. W. Collins, Secretary of the Department of Industry and Commerce, has been appointed as New Zealand Trade Commissioner for Canada and the United States. The Bishop of Nelson (Dr W. C. Sallier), will leave for Wellington on February 12, en route to London, where he will attend the Lambeth Con ference. which will be held from July 9. to August 9, The Bishop expects to be away a year, and during his absence the Vicar-General of the Diocese, Archdeacon Dart, of Nelson, will be his locum tenens, Mrs Spillane, an old resident of Westport, died on Saturday evening Deceased was a native of Ireland, but had been resident for many years in Westport, where her late husband pre deceased her. She is survived by four sons, Charles, Edward, Jack (Westport), James (Reefton!, and one daughter, Mary, to whom sympathy i* extended in their bereavement.