PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 111, 7 April 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The death occurred at Dunedin on Saturday of Mr Thomas Thompson Ritchie. Deceased, who was well known in business circles, and also as owner and breeder of several trotting horses, was in his sixtieth year. Rev. C. B. Scton, vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Otahuhu, _ collapsed while conducting a service in the lJanmure Anglican Church last evening. He was admitted to a private hospital. His condition is fairly serious. A cable message from Sydney states that General Sir Harry Chauvel, Chief of the General Staff, and InspectorGeneral of the Australian Military Forces, will retire from active service on April 16, on reaching the age of 65. Mr Frank D. Clayton, inspector cf the Bank of New Zealand, attached to the head office, has received extended leave with a view to his retirement next September. Mrs Clayton and her daughter left last week for England. The death occurred yesterday morning of Mr William Henry Morris, a retired postal official, at his residence on the corner of Featlierston and Lyndhurst Streets. Mr Morris, who was 70 years of age, had not been in the best of health recently, and a short time ago he was visited by a doctor who prescribed for him. Death was apparently due to natural causes. Archbishop Redwood, the oldest living Roman Catholic, prelate in the world, will celebrate his ninety-first birthday to-morrow. He will not mark the event with any special function, although he will preside at a private dinner to celebrate the occasion. The Archbishop is regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the Roman Catholic Church to-day. Six years ago he celebrated the diamond jubilee of his ordination and he then received congratulatory messages from all parts of the world, including one from His Holiness the Pope, and a special letter from the French Consul expressing appreciation of his-services to France. He is the son of Mr Henry Paul Redwood, and was born on April 8, 1839, at Lower Hanyard, Tixall Estate, Staffordshire. He came to New Zealand with his parents at the age of three. Since 1887, when the dignity was bestowed upon him by the Holy See, he has been the first and only Roman Catholic Archbishop in New Zealand. The death of the late Mr Henry Penberthy, which occurred at his residence, Newbury, on Saturday, came with tragic suddenness, deceased right up to the time of his demise having enjoyed perfect health. The late Mr Penbertliy came from Victoria with his stepfather, the late Rev. John Standrin, to Foxton fifty-two years ago. Two years later he went to the Fending district where lie was married to Ellen, the second daughter of the late Mr and Mrs W. Gould, old settlers. He leaves besides his widow five sons and three daughters, two sons and two daughters having predeceased him, the eldest son losing his life in the Great War. The surviving sons are Arthur, of Wanganui; Bert, of Gisborne; William, Mason and Hector, of Newbury; the daughters being Mrs T. Mingins, of Feilding; Mrs J. Kendall, of Hamilton ; and Mrs T. Donaldson, of Ashhurst, who' mourn the loss of a kind father and loving husband. Deceased has two sisters living in Western Australia.