PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 117, 15 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Charles Seabrook, one of the oldest residents of Greymouth,' an ironmonger, died-this, morning, after a long' illiiess, from diabetes. ; .

]\lr :W. H. Skinner, Commissioner of ) Crown Lands, and Mr.v A. R. \V right, District Engineer, left Blenheim for Eaikoara yesterday. Tv;liilo' there they will inspect the river pro--tective scheme which it has been represented .-"to the Land Board 'would' be : detrimental to the- Rainbow" settlement.

Mr W. M. Singleton, Assistant Director of the Daiiy Produce Division of the Departmerit» of Agricul--ture, left Wellington last Wednesday en route for Canada. He has been called to; Ins parents' home by cable? owinfr to the serious condition of his father's health.

His Grace Archbishoi? Redwood celebrated on Monday the twenty-fifth anniversary of Ins, appoint-m&nt as Archbishop. His Grace was. p,iuained. at MaYijpoth.in 1865. appoiiitedßis- ~ iiop of' Wellington in 1874, and;€|levat-ed.-id the dignity of^Archbisubg on iStli Midy- 1887. Owing t Vfco *; ?his;,.; 'Grace's absence from Wellington,;, th;e;.. .jubilee'" w.ill not be celebrated.- this1 v weelc, l)ut fitting;. ceremonies will .} be . ccricuicttd on "Wednesday ;of next week, inciuding Pontifical Hi<rh Mass; r at the Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, in the morning, and the presentation of an nddress from the laity" .it the- Town Hall in the evening.