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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 6

At the strangers’ tea at the Y.M.C.A. on Sunday afternoon, tho membership secretary, Mr G. M. Silver, usually calls upon those attending for tho first time to announce their names and the town or country from which they hail. Calling on other business a pressmen was invited to remain to tea, after which the custom referred to was put into operation. All the newcomers complied but two, the pressman. and the speaker at the afternoon, gathering, they evidently thinking they perhaps did not come within tho scope of tho gathering. They were -promptly called upon by Mr Silver, and by a strange coincidence it happened that both came from the same town, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and at about tho same time must have been working on tho two local newspapers. Although tho two did not personally know each other, yet both knew members of the other’s family and had many friends in common. Needless to say, many happy Recollections followed.

The Island Bay Bowling Club Orchestra and Glee Party visited the Victoria ward, Wellington Hospital, on Tuesday evening and cheered the inmates with a very fine programme of orchestral and vocal items, which were much appreciated.

A cable message, received last night from London, records tlie death, of the Hon. Victor Huia Onslow, son of the fourth Burl of Onslow, ox-Govemor of New Zealand.

A Press Association message from Dunedin reports the death of Mr William Duke, who is well-known in connection with tho butchering business in that city.

New-laid eggs have been selling in Donegal, Ireland, market at three farthings each.