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Southland Times, Issue 19578, 16 June 1925, Page 4

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VICE REGAL. Owing to an attack of lumbago apd the after-effects of a cold, the GovernorGeneral has been advised by his medical man to cancel all engagements for this week. His Excellency hopes to be well enough to leave Christchurch for Wellington on Wednesday evening as previously arranged. Yesterday morning it was announced that his condition was slightly better. To-night Lady Alice Fergusson will take his Excellency’s place at the Chamber of Commerce dinner.—Press Association. MINISTERIAL. I Hon. J. G. Coates made his first public * appearance in Auckland province as Prime ' Minister, ■ when he visited Pukekohe, yesI terday. The Ministerial party arrived by [ the limited express, and were met by the ! Mayor (Mr J. Routly) and Reform support i ers. They visited the primary and second- ■ ary schools, and Mr Coates gave short adi dresses to the scholars. He afterwards ! visited Mauku and Patumahoe, and was , accorded a civic welcome this afternoon. | There was a big attendance and enthusiasm ! everywhere.—Press Association. Mr J. A. Nisbet went north to Auckland | by the early express yesterday. Mr W. A. Bollard leaves to-day by the ! afternoon express for Dunedin. Mr E. C. Hazlett, of Dunedin, arrived in Invercargill by the afternoon express yesterday, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr H. C. Mac Gibbon, of Gore, left for Christchurch by yesterday morning’s express. An Auckland wire records the death of Mr G. A. Buttle, aged 76, a prominent Auckland stockbroker. Canon Clifford Salisbury Woodward, M.A., M.C., Vicar of St. Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, London, has declined the offer of the Bishopric of Christchurch according to a London cablegram. Mr G. Williamson, of Gore, has been appointed to take charge of Messrs Gormack and Pettigrew’s Invercargill branch, and left to take up his new position yesterday. In a Battalion order just issued to the Second Battalion, Southland Regiment, the following chaplains are appointed as attached to Headquarters—Rev. J. L. Robinson, C.F., third class; Rev. R. V. Fisher, C.F., fourth class; and Rev. J. M. Thompson, C.F., fourth class. A cablegram from Ottawa states that the Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that Lord Byng was unable to consider an extension of his term as Gover-nor-General of Canada. A message from Ottawa says the death of Sir William Peterson was announced in the House of Commons on Friday afternoon. Sir William was in Ottawa for a special committee hearing. He was ill for only a few minutes. Death was due to a heart attack. An Ashburton Press Association telegram reports the death of Mrs J. M. Jennings in her 97th year. She came to Canterbury in 1859 in the ship Clontarf, and was headmistress of the Church School at Papanui, Christchurch, for many years, and then of Papanui State School for 20 years. Then, for a-quarter of a century, she taught in a school conducted by her daughter, retiring to Tinwald 25 years ago. She leaves a son, two daughters, nine grandchildren and 16 great grand-children. Her husband died shortly after arrival in New Zealand