PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2084, 27 March 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Colonel Melvill, who has been on a visit to Wellington, returned to Palraerston North on Saturday,

It is reported that Mr It. B. Ross will again be a candidate for the Pahiatua seat at the general election.

An old resident of Wanganui, in the person of Mr Thomas Sparks, died last week at the age of sixty-eight years.

Mr and Mrs J. B. A'Deane and family, of Ashcott, Takapau, have arrived back in the Dominion from the Old Country.

The Hon. E. P. Lee, Minister of Justice, was accorded a civic reception at Blenheim on Friday night. He left on Saturday overland, en route for Christchurch.

The Prime Minister (Right Hon. Mr W. P. Massey) passed through Palmerston North by the North-bound Auckland express on Saturday afternoon, en route to Auckland.

At a meeting of the Cabinet on Friday, Sir Francis Bell, who is about to leave on a trip to England and the Continent, was presented by his colleagues with a Petone travelling rug.

Rev. C. Aker. of Okato, is being transferred to Rehia, n Northern Wa'iroa, and Rev. T. Flower, of that place, takes charge of Okato. The transference is being made early in April.

Mrs C. H. Tarrant, of 'Awahuri," Sydney, is a visitor to Palmerston North. Twelve years ago Mr Tarrant was in business at Awahuri. He now has an extensive fancy leather manufactory in Sydney.

The name of Mr E. McKenzie, a well-known football enthusiast, of Carterton, is freely mentioned as one likely to be selected to carry the Liberal colours for the Wairarapa scat at the next Parliamentary election.

Mr Charles Bryant, R. 0.1., a wellknown Australian artist, who has been living in England for 13 years, is on a holiday tour in New Zealand. Mr Bryant is a member of several art societies, "and in 1913 gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon.

A highly-respected resident of lnvcrcargill, Mr W. R. Riddell, died last week at the age of seventy years. The deceased, all the time he had been in the town, had taken a deep interest in its welfare, and was one of the most useful citizens Invercargill possessed.

The death occurred at a private hospital at New Plymouth on Friday night of Mr Alexander C. Leslie, of Inglewood. Mr Leslie has carried on business as a hairdresser and tobacconist at Inglewood for a number of years, and was a well-known figure on the bowling green.

Canon Percival Stacy Waddy, whose appointment as Anglican Archdeacon of Palestine was recently announced, is an Australian, and was born at Carcoar (N.S.W.) in 1875. He is a grandson of the last commandant of the Imperial troops in Australia, and was educated at the King's School, Parramatta, and Balliol College. Oxford.

Mr H. IT. Allan, master of agricultural science at the Ashburton High School,, has received advice that he has been recommended for the degree of Pootor of Science of the New Zealand University. Mr Allan has been appointed to a position on the staff of the Feilding Technical School, and will leave Ashburton at the end of -March. Latest news of Bishop Cleary states that there is a marked and steadilycontinued improvement in his health. Mis many friends in New Zealand will be pleased to know that the several eminent London surgeons and physicians who acted over him in consultation arc unanimous in declaring that hi:; complete recovery is now fully assured. At the close of the evening service in Cuba Street Methodist Church yesterday, Rev. A. Ashcroft, on behalf of the trustees and congregaton, presented Mr J. Cox with a handsome silvermoimted walking-stick. Mr Cox having been connected with the Church for 27 years, is ceasing his active work on account of his advancing years. For most of this period Mr Cox has been caretaker and steward. Mr Cox suitably responded. Mr U. McGillivray, Fields Inspector in the Department of Agriculture, intends making an extended visit to Eu. rope shortly. He will travel via Canada and the States, and while there will visit various agricultural experimental farms and colleges, with the object of acquiring information regarding recent developments in scientific agriculture. In England he will attend one of the agricuitural colleges lor a term, and visit seed-growing and other points of rural interest. Mr McGillivray expects to be abscne xor IS months or two years. After an eventful life, Mr George Clarkson, of Vermont Street, Ponsonby, has just passed away at the age of eighty years. He was a hue stamp of a pioneer, but a special distinction has always been connected with his name, as he was one of the party which, on August 14 fifty-five years ago, discovered the famous Shotover claim on Kuranui Creek at the Thames —a find which caused a rush that practically emptied Auckland. Mr Clarkson came of a fine old Scotch family, and arrived in Auckland by the ship Resolute in 1865, 99 days out from Glasgow.

Very choice skirt in nigger garbricord, with long smart narrow stripes in tones of fawn and henna, fancy

slip pockets linished large button belted at waist, 89/6. One of Collinson and Cunninghame's smart new styles. Orchestra daily in tea-rooms.*