PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 293, 5 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

‘ A London cablegram states that Lord Chelmsford, the retiring Viceroy c\f India*- • hag received a Viscountcy. The Prime Minister will visit the Wanganui district on Thursday, and will give ua address ai Waverley that evening. The Governor-General and party received an enthusiastic reception at Nelson yesterday, and to-duy they leave for the. West Coast. Mr R. E. Fittall-McCrac, assistant accountant to the Public 'Trust Department, Wellington, has been. transferred to Auckland. , . Messrs C. E. Daniell and Thomas Moss have been elected _ unopposed to represent the combined Wairarapa district on the Wellington Harbour Board. Mr Roy Heath, assistant town clerk at Nilpier, was taken suddenly ill a few days ago and Is now in the Napier Hospital. Mr Heath is not expected to resume his duties for several weeks. Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Slocman, who is about to relinquish his appointment as director of military training, will sail for London by tho lonic on. April 14 to rejoin his regiment. The friends of Mr W. A. J. Hail., of , Douglas street, will bo pleased to hear , that his daughter, who went amder a , serious operation in a priv.te hospital, at Wellington, is progressing favourably.

Dr. Purdy, City Health Officer, formerly Health Officer at Auckland, and who served .7. with the Sixth anc( Tenth New Zealand Mpilnted lliflea in the South African campaign, has been elected president of the. New South Wales Health Society, states a cablegram from Sydney. A well-known builder and contractor of Dannevirke, Mr John Linton Scott, died on ; Sunday at the age of 63 years Deceased was born in Glasgow and came to Now Zealand in the early sixties. Ho was an, enthusiastic member of the local bowling club. The death occurred in the Auckland Hospital on Sunday of Mrs Braithwaite, widow of the lute Mr Joseph Braithwaite, a former Mayor of Dunedin. The deceased Indy, who was 65 years of age, was tho mother of 25 children, six sons and four daughters surviving her. She lost two ’ sons in the war, one was discharged from tho army in England, and three others returned to Now Zealand. A sad coincidence is ‘that Mr Braithwaite died four years ago on the same date.

The death occurred recently at Wanganui ofv Mr Owen H. Osborne, aged 86 years. ; jle was employed for many years as u guard on the new Zealand railways, and wah guard on the .first passenger train ; that reached Foatherston from Cross creek ' early in the ’eighties. On his retirement from the railway service he took over an hotel at Drcyerton, and about 1899 left for Woodville, where ho became licensee of one of the hotels. For i\ number of years past he had resided at Wauganuj. ■' As a memorial to the late Mr Hugh Girdlestoue, of, Wellington, a keen moun- . taineer wiio died at the front, his tramping friends, mindful of the, many happy hours spent together “above the world, decided some time ago to erect a memorial to; him on the height ho loved the best —the Little Matterhorn on Mount Ruapehu. They clubbed together and purchased a memorial stone of blue' granite' suitably inscribed, and during the recent Easter holidays carried the ston© (which weighed only 35!b.) from Ohakune to a spot near tlie top of the Little Matterhorn. Unfortunately a storm swept over thi mountain before tho work of erection coiild bo completed, but the stone was loft in a safer. place for proper erection when the occasion serves. The party who undertook this task consisted of Messrs WV-H. Field. M.P.; H, F. von Hnast. T, E. Cork-ill. Stewart, Keller (2), and Johnston (Ractilii). . - •