PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19349, 9 December 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL.

:■ Dr Morkane, of Christchurch, who recently returned from a trip to America, is at present visiting Dunedin in connection with the medical examinations.

A London cablegram announces the death of Sir William Grey EUison-Macartney. He was Governor of Tasmania from 19X3 to 1917. and of Western Australia from 1917 to 1920.

A cablegram from London states that Sir John Luke, of Wellington, has arrived there from his South African parliamentary tour. He is visiting his son, who is a postgraduate engineer, and he intends spending Christmas with his relatives in Cornwall. At the meeting of the Port Chalmers Borough Council last night a motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr I. 0. Isbister, who had been a councillor for a number of terms. A Taumarunui Press Association message announce? the ■ death of Mr Thomas De Were Hunt, of Matiere, one of the earliest settlers in the King Country. He was a member of tho Hospital Board, a former member of the Ohura County Council, and the Matiere representative on the Auckland Railway League for some years. M. Paul Saldaigne, the Belgian operatic tenor, after an absence of five years from Dunedin, intends, on account of his health, returning in a few weeks to resume the profession of teaching. During his stay abroad he lias had many successful operatic tours on the Continent, including one of long duration with the Antwerp Grand Opera Company. At a recent meeting of the committee of St. Mary’s Orphanage, Mr J. Skottowe Webb tendered his resignation as honorary secretary and treasurer after holding those offices for eight and a-half years. A resolution was carried expressing much regret at the resignation and placing on record the committee’s hearty appreciation of the sterling services Mr Webb had so faithfully rendered to St. Mary’s Orphanage over a long series of years First Church has secured the services of the Rev. Lionel Fletcher, of Auckland, as holiday supply for tho month of January. The remarkable success of Mr Fletcher’s Cardiff ministry ig well known •to many, and before coining to New Zealand he had a reputation as a powerful evangelist both in Great Britain and America. More recently in Auckland his inspiring service attracted overflowing congregations. Mr Fletcher’s book on “Evangelisrm” which has been very favourably reviewed in Great Britain, reveals a man who is thoroughly &.Tive to ihe needs of to-day.

The death occurred at Napier on Sunday of Mr Charles Edwin Morns, sixth son of the late Mr A. W. Morris, in his fiftyfourth year, 'the late Mr Morris was a native of Dunedin, and entered the employ of Messrs Dalgety and Co. (Ltd.), after leaving school. He was appointed manager of the firm’s branch at Oamaru some years later, and subsequently went to Invercargill and managed the branch there for some time. Later ho was transferred to Timaru and then to Napier, where ho had managed the branch for the past eight years. During his early' days in Dunedin he was a keen footballer, and played for the Pirates Club. He had been suffering for some time from heart trouble, and his death was not unexpected. Tile deceased married a daughter of the late Captain Armstrong, of the Imperial Army, and leaves a grown-up daughter, a boy in his teens, and a daughter aged 11. Another brother, Mr Arthur Morris, died at Ohristohuron in April of last year. Mr Crosby Morris, who is a brother of the deceased, left Dunedin on Friday morning lost for Napier..