PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL

A London cable reports the death of Admiral J. C. B. Mac Lean, aged f 76, who was responsible for the naval transport service during war time. Mrs D. Mcßeth, of Thames Valley, is a visitor to Palmerston North, and is staying with her mother, Mrs T. Lowes, and sister, Mrs D. Howie, of Bryant street. Mr J. 0. Webber, headmaster of the Bunnythorpe School, has been compelled to enter the Palmerston North Hospital to undergo an operation. His many friends will wish him a speedy return to good health. A Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Mr J. J. Utting, a veteran journalist, aged 84. Deceased arrived in New Zealand in 1865 and was connected with various newspapers till 1881, when he went to Australia. The death occurred at Hawera of Mr Richard Wylie, a brother of Messrs Andrew, Edgie and Albert Wylie, 'of Wellington. The late Mr Wylie was president of the Petone Bowling Club a few years ago and was one of the best exponents of the game that club then had.

Mr Thomas Scott, tho recently-ap-pointed manager of the Kosy Theatre, took over his new duties last evening. Mr Scott, who is well known in film circles as a theatre manager and travelling representative for distributing houses, is no stranger to Palmerston North, zs he relieved Mr H. E. Bennett on that gentleman’s trip to Australia earlier in the year and more recently visited here in connection with the local screenings of Harold Lloyd’s masterpiece “Girl Shy,” which had a record run throughout tho Dominion under his expert guidance. Mr Scott made his name as a theatre manager in Glasgow, where he had charge of the palatial La Scala cinema house, and came to New Zealand three years ago. Mr John McCabe, a very old colonist and army veteran, died in tho Wellington Hospital yesterday, at the ago of 100 years and nine months. Deceased, who was a native of Ireland, enlisted as a young man and fought with his regiment in the Crimean campaign, and in the Indian Mutiny, before coming to New Zealand with the Imperial Forces to fight through tho Maori War. On leaving the army ho settled in the Rangitikci district, where he worked as a farm labourer for many years. He went to Wellington about six years ago, and since then had lived at the residence of his daughter, Mrs K. McGrath, Sage’s lane. A son was killed in the Great War. Up till quite recently, Mr McCabe retained all liis faculties unimpaired and related incidents of his long career with remarkable clearness.