PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18556, 17 May 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr A. E. TJssberwood left for Christchurch yesterday. Mr E. L. Macassey was a passenger by the* express yesterday for Christchurch. Colonel D’Arcy Chaytor will depart for England by the lonic on June 9. It is his intention to reside there for some time. Lord Clifford of Chudlcigh (president or the Evolution Society) will leave England in-June for the purpose of giving a senes of lectures in Australasia. He was a farmer in Marlborough in the seventies, and came into his title in 1916. The Mystic Evolution Society was formed with the project of studying his philosophical theories. Private advice was received in Dunedin yesterday of the death of Mrs Ernest Fage, wife of the licensee of the Royal Hotel, Auckland, and daughter of Mrs Burgess, of 2 Rowland’s avenue, South Dunedin. ‘ Visitors to Dunedin and at present staying at the Oban Hotel include Mr and Mrs E. C. Adlington and family (Johannesberg). Mr .and Mrs Malcolm (Sydney), Messrs W. H. Booth, W. U. Webley, S. T. Patterson (Wellington), H. p - (Christchurch), M. A. A. Davies (of Cassell, London), J. M'Curdy (Invercargill), and H. Cowdery (Oamaru). On the eve of his approaching marriage Mr Finlay Cheyne. son-of Mr A. F. Cheyne, of the firm of Cheyne and Co., drapers, Mosgiel, was met by the members of the staff and presented with a silver hot-water kettle and a barometer. Every good wish was expressed that his married life would bb one of great happiness. Mr Cheyne mide suitable acknowledgment of the gifts and the kindly references to himself. He was married last Thursday to Miss Gladys McLeod, daughter of Mr A. M Leod, of Inglis street, Mosgiel. Weitam Mr S. Bowman, manager of the Waitasi Dairy Company, was a passenger by tne express yesterday for Oamaru, . proceed later to Timaru. He will then ceed to Wellington on business connected, with the proposed dairy ■ ' produce pool. day Mr J. R. Thacker (chairman of the ex ecutive of the South Island Dairy tion), Messrs G. A. Lamb (secretary) Bryant (Henley), and A. H. Jones dale) proceed north in connection with the same business. In Wellington they meet representatives from .'various parts « the. dominion, and discuss the details of the Pr l P< pk!n€er -settler passed away on Friday in the person of Mr Robert Mitchell, aw®' known and highly respected resident of Musselburgh. The late Mr Mitchell, who was 80 years of age, arrived at Port in the ship Pl-adda in the year 1861, and lias resided in Dunedin since that ume. lie was practically the first resident in Musselburgh, having erected his home in Eakiale street in 1873. His wife predeceased him three years ago, and he is survived by two sons and two daughters. ThedeccMedwaa for 27 years a member of the bt. iUiaaBorough Council, and filled the ma 7 < f h 3 'i chair for a term. Besides relatives of tie deceased there were present at the funeral yesterday the Mayor and councillors of bt. Hilda and -a representative assemblage citizens. The Rev. R. Fairmaid officiated at the graveside. -rwdin Mr Harold Browning, recently of Dunedin, was the principal vocalist at the inaugural concert of the Victorian branch of the British Mtasic Stocic-tiy fti Melbourne ®!! April 29. The beauties of the four baritone songs interpreted by him could not .says tlie Argus) have been rcvealwl. The descriptive lines of G J a^ Ue ; .? a ®^ d “Emperor Song” were rendered with ?bund ant artistry. The long pauses, intended by the composer to mark the stages of the incident that he narrates, would have made most singers fearful of losing grip on the attention of the listener. But M Browning did not stop singing. Tliat is te say, his lips ©eased % to mov>& but his eyes betokened clearly that he continued to sing mentally.” Mr Browning d r audience the eene atmosphere of Stanford s better-known “Fairy a ,° a " he triumphed over difficulties that lurk in the way of the unwary. He gave tlie exact accentuation to the words, and voice snci verse working together in perfect harmony presented the peaceful scene to the ear aa clearly as it could have been done by a painter to the eye. Mr Browning was appropriately virile in Prank Bridge s Oh That It Were So,” and contemplative in Wolford Davies's “When Childher Plays. The last, a song of reminiscence is a splendid example of the power that lies behind plain terms. It is a model of simplicity. When Mr Browning was forced by a delighted audience to sing again he happily chose Vaughan Williams s Linden Lea.”