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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr G. M’Millan, of Auckland, arrived in Dunedin by the express from the north yesterday.. ' Professor G. E. Thompson was a passenger to Christchurch bv the express yesterday. Mr A. H. Kimbell, Under-secretary for Mines, went north by the express yesterday on his return to Wellington. Dr V. E. Galway will leave for Oamaru to-day to judge the music events at the competitions there. He will return on •tune 2/. Naval-chaplain Stubbs, of the Philomel, was a passenger on the through express to the north yesterday on his way to Auckland to rejoin his ship. Naval-chaplain Stubbs had been at* Invercargill on a visit to his sister. Bishop Whyte and a number of Roman Catholic clergy and laity were present at me railway station yesterday morning to bid farewell to Father Foley, who left by the north express for Oamaru, en route to Ireland. Father Foley, who arrived in New Zealand from Groat Britain about 12 years ago, ha s lived in Dunedin for the past two years, and succeeded the late Monsignor Coffey as administrator of the cathedral parish. the death of Mr John M‘Kay, which occurred (suddenly at his home in Forsyth on June 4, removes a very old and highlyrespected Otago pioneer settler. He was born at Laverton Station, Melbourne, in 1859, and landed in Dunedin with his parents in 1852 from Victoria in the ship FTen Simpson. He later took up his residence in Dunedin, and subsequently, with his family, removed to Waitati, where he rcrnained'Till four years ago, when he purchased a farm at. Forsyth, in the Tuapeka district. Thirteen years ago ho had the misfortune to ho thrown out of a trap, and had been in failing health ever since. He is survived by his wife and a family of three sons and five daughters. Air J. C. Ncwlands, of the New College, Edinburgh, who ha s given lecture recitals m many lands, arrived in Dunedin on Tuesday to arrange for a brief season here. Mr Newlnnds’s recitals cover a wide variety of literature, and he features the works of Shakespeare and Barrie. The press notices Mr Newlands has received for ills performances in other countries are of a most laudatory nature. The Dunedin season will bo for two nights only—June 24 and 20. After completing the preliminary arrangements for his opening in Dunedin Mr Newlands will return to Christchurch to fulfil engagements and come back to Dunedin in a few days’ time.