PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL

The many friends of the stationmaster; Mr J. J. O’Shea, will be pleased to learn that there h a s been a distinct improvement in his condition.

Advice has been received that Mr Stuart Sinclair Mackay, formerly of Christchurch, has obtained his pilot s certificate in the Royal Air I'orce, England. Mr Roderick McLeod, of Dannerirke, was an interested spectator at ;he Caledonian, sports yesterday. Mr McLeod, who has attained 91 years of age, keenly followed the progress of tne events.

Major Fritz Henningsen, vice-consul for .Denmark in Australia and New Zealand, is paying his first visit to the Dominion. tie has been stationed in the past three years, and will return to Copenhagen in May to rejoin the Danish Foreign Office there.

Count Robert Zelenski, a member of an old and distinguished Hungarian family, accompanied, by Dr. Joseph de Fodor, of Budapest, arrived at Wellington from Sydney by the TJlimaroa yesterday in the course of a world tour. They will leave Auckland on April 9 by the Niagara for America. rt is announced tiiat Mr L. \V. Robertson is to succeed Mr J. F. Mackley an locomotive engineer for the North island. 1 railways. Mr Robertson ,is at present stationed at Christchurch, ’where he holds the position of locomotive engineer for the South. Island. The date ot Mr Robertson’s arrival in Auckland is not definitely known, but the change wilt take place almost immediately. Mr Robertson has an excellent record of service with the Railway Department.

A cable message from Paris announces the death of Mr Myron T. Herrick, American Ambassador to France, aged 75. Mr Herrick was the United States Ambassador to France from 1912 to 1915 and again from 1921 until his death. He was bom in 1854 and admitted to the Bar in 1877. He was Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906, and was a delegate to several National Republican Conventions. He established an American ambulance hospital at Neuilly in 1914 and a clearing house in Europe and a war relief clearing house in America, ' and also performed other notable services during the war.

The death of the last member of the Order of St. Benedict in Auckland, Brother Samule, occurred at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, last w'eek, aged 92 years. A native of Italy, Brother Samule came to New Zealand over 40 years ago, and spent the greater part of the intervening years in and around Auckand. He was a lay member of the order, and never entered Holy Orders. Brother Samuel had the distinction of serving under three bishops of the diocese of Auckland—Bishop Luck, Bishop Lenihan and Bishop Cleary. The Benedictines are members,of a learned order, given mostly to study and teaching. Many of them undertook pioneering work in Australia and New Zealand, but in both countries they have now been largely replaced. Indeed, it is believed that no members of the order remain in Australia. Brother Samule had been, in frail health for the past six years. "«